All land clearance projects will need to carry out an immediate check on their work processes so as to “avoid any repeat of the mistakes” that resulted in the erroneous tree clearing in Kranji, MTI Minister Chan Chun Sing said on Mon. He added that Permanent Secretary of Defence Development at the Defence Ministry Joseph Leong has been appointed to review what lessons can be learnt from the error. “It is clear to us that there were gaps in the way that the project was managed and supervised,” he said. He added that similar worksites have to make sure that their project supervision and implementation processes were in order in the wake of the incident. When asked whether the Government was aware of comments that JTC was pushing the blame to contractors, Mr Chan said it was key for people to understand that there were multiple parties and processes involved in contract mgmt, such as the roles of development and mgmt firm CPG Consultants, as well as the roles of “QPs”, engineers and supervisors who are on-site.... Continue Reading