Authorities will revoke a Hong Kong construction company’s operating licence next month due to safety concerns after three incidents involving five fatalities, including one in 2022 that killed three workers due to a fallen crane tower.
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Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn Hon-ho said on Thursday that Aggressive Construction Company would be removed from the government’s registered list of contractors on June 20.
“From that day onwards, it cannot carry out any building works under the Buildings Ordinance,” she said.
The company, a subsidiary of Great Harvest Group, attracted significant public attention when a 65-tonne tower crane collapsed at its construction site on Anderson Road in Kwun Tong in September 2022. The incident resulted in the deaths of three workers and left six others injured.
Linn confirmed the company was in charge of six projects, including three public housing estates under the Housing Authority, the city’s major public housing provider, as well as the construction of a government building in Chai Wan.
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She said the authority and the government would strive to find a new contractor for the four projects in two months upon the expulsion of the company.