MTR station’s defective columns: unacceptable errors or unfinished work?

A scandal involving defective concrete columns and unauthorised repairs at a railway station under construction has sparked debate, with some experts attributing the structural gaps to unfinished work and others condemning them as unacceptable errors that raise fears of a wider decline in Hong Kong’s building sector. Authorities have identified about 30 defective columns at the MTR Corporation’s Tung Chung…