Hong Kong considers tougher site operations rules after spike in construction defects

Hong Kong’s Construction Industry Council will form a task force to review site operations in an effort to address work quality issues following a spike in discoveries of substandard work on buildings and infrastructure across the city. On Wednesday, Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn Hon-ho announced the task force and said that it would explore measures to boost the construction industry’s performance. These could include requiring frontline workers to wear body cameras to record...