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進入《TAIPEI TIMES 焦點》 DPP councilors condemn Taipei Dome architects
Farglory Group founder Chao Teng-hsiung, center, speaks to reporters outside the Taipei District Court yesterday. Photo: CNA
By Abraham Gerber / Staff reporter
The Taipei Dome Project （台北大巨蛋） “referee” ended up becoming a “player,” Taipei City councilors said yesterday.
Taipei City councilors Wang Wei-chung （王威中） and Kao Chia-yu （高嘉瑜） of the Democratic Progressive Party （DPP） condemned the hiring of architect Lo Hsing-Hua’s （羅興華） firm to design the facility, adding that the firm had been involved in crafting the bidding process.
“As the firm responsible for conducting the business valuation of the Taipei Dome Project, Lo Hsing Hua formulated tactics [for the bidding process] that seriously underestimated potential profits,” Wang said, adding that favorable bidding terms based on the firm’s inaccurate valuation would enable the project’s winning bidder, Farglory Land Development Co （遠雄建設）, to gain “ill-gotten wealth.”
After the facility’s original designer, Liu Pei-sen （劉培森）, withdrew from the project, Farglory hired Lo to design the structure, he said, in effect turning the “referee” into a “player.”
In response, Taipei Dome Project executive secretary Hu Pei-lun （胡培倫） said that as an outsourced construction project, the Taipei Dome is governed by the Act for the Promotion of Private Participation in Infrastructure Projects （促進民間參與公共建設法） rather than by the stricter rules of the Government Procurement Act （政府採購法）.
He said that there was nothing illegal in Farglory’s hiring of Lo because the latter had only submitted a report on project valuation, while a separate firm had drafted the actual rules for the bidding process.
However, concern’s over Lo’s ability to handle the Dome’s design led the the city government Selection Committee to twice reject Farglory’s decision to hire the firm, before finally being overruled by the central government’s Public Construction Commission, he said.
Meanwhile, the original designer, Liu, went public with his firm’s version of the disagreement with Farglory. He said in multiple media interviews that Farglory’s revisions to the Dome plan had gone against the spirit of his design, creating safety concerns by cutting costs and increasing commercial space at the expense of open space around the structure, which could be used for evacuation.
In response Farglory Public Relations Department deputy manager Jacky Yang （楊舜欽） said that while there were differences between Liu’s design and the one adopted by his firm, the percentage of commercial space was identical, adding that disagreements over profit allocation were another cause of the firms’ disagreement.
新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES
