Key Economic Performance Indicators in Financial Year 2003/04
| Facilities Development | |
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339 capital projects valued at HK$56 billion on rolling programme |
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92 capital projects completed with expenditure of HK$11,670M on works |
| Facilities Upkeep | |
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27,400,000 m2 of gross floor area maintained |
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363,000 works orders completed with expenditure of HK$4,648M |
| Monitoring and Advisory Services | |
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900 subvented projects monitored valued at HK$58 billion |
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5,700 technical advice given for subvented projects |
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5,100 technical advice given for other projects |
Business Areas
Working under the Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works, ArchSD acts as Government's architect in providing full professional, technical and financial management services for the development and maintenance of public buildings (other than public housing) in three main areas:
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Technical advice and monitoring services to all bureaux and departments on projects receiving government subvention and on government projects entrusted to or in joint venture with the private sector. About 900 projects, valued at $58 billion, were monitored during the year; |
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Professional and technical services for project management, design and supervision of the construction of building projects in the Public Works Programme and those of the Hospital Authority (HA). During the year, the rolling programme covered 339 projects at a total value of about $56 billion; and |
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Building maintenance services, including the provision of general maintenance for all public buildings and facilities as well as those of the HA, covering a total floor area of approximately 27.4 million m2. ArchSD also undertakes conservation and restoration of listed buildings and gazetted monuments and emergency and major repairs to all subvented schools outside public housing estates. |
Our Staff
As at 31 March of 2004, ArchSD has 1981 staff comprising architects, building services engineers, landscape architects, maintenance surveyors, quantity surveyors, structural engineers, technical officers, site supervisory staff and general grade officers. They are all based in Hong Kong and among them about 24% are female staff working in various ranks.
Funding and Expenditure
The funding source for the departmental expenditure and capital works expenditure are mainly allocated from the General Revenue Account and the Capital Works Reserve Fund of the HKSAR Government. The departmental expenditure for 2003/04 is $1,491 million with a reduction of 2.9% as compared with that of 2002/03.
In 2003, the actual expenditure on building projects undertaken or monitored by the department was $11.67 billion. The building projects undertaken by the department were mainly under the categories of schools; disciplined services like fire stations, ambulance depots, police headquarters, immigration service training school and boundary crossing facilities; medical and health like the hospital improvement projects; recreation, culture and tourism like the market complex, visitor center and waterfront projects etc.
More comprehensive information of our financial performance is described in our Controlling Officer's Report which is available from the HKSAR Government website at http://www.budget.gov.hk.
Goals, Targets and Performance
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| Project budget planning |
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| Project expenditure control |
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| Responsible procurement and tendering |
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| Efficient and effective services |
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LONG-TERM GOAL
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| Key Objectives | Key Targets | Measurement Methods / Indicators | 2003 Performance and Status | Follow-on Targets for 2004 and Beyond | |||||
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| Assess client satisfaction |
Conduct client satisfaction surveys for newly completed projects and set up a Client Satisfaction Index (CSI) |
Measured in terms of no. of client satisfaction surveys conducted and identification of improvement areas for the following year | 12 client satisfaction survey completed in 2003. A client Satisfaction Index was set up at end of 2003 |
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Conduct client satisfaction survey for at least 12 newly completed projects and 90% of projects to achieve Satisfied Level on the overall performance | ||||
| Improve timeliness of service and project delivery |
Deliver, in a timely manner, at least 80% of projects scheduled for completion within the financial year 2003/04 |
Measured in terms of % of no. of projects that are completed on schedule out of total no. |
97% of projects (28 out of 29) were completed on time. |
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Deliver, in a timely manner, at least 90% of projects scheduled for completion within the financial year 2004/05 |
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| Provide advice on building, engineering services and planning and development issues within 10 calendar days of receipt of request for 90% of all subvented projects |
Measured in terms of % of no. of advice that are provided within 10 days out of total no. |
92% of advice (2531 out of 2751) were provided within 10 days |
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Same target on-going |
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| Attend to 99% emergency repairs, e.g. a burst water pipe, on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and new towns in the New Territories, within 1 hour of notification | Measured In terms of % of no. of emergency repairs that are attended to within 1 hour of notification out of total no. |
99.66% of urgent repairs (4,103 out of 4,117) were attended to within 1 hour of notification |
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| Outsource public projects to harness resources in the private sector | Measured in terms of % of total value of capital works projects under ArchSD mandate that are outsourced to private sector | 59% (about HK $35 billion) of total value of capital works projects under ArchSD mandate were outsourced to private sector |
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| Promote improvements in standard of services | Complete the review of the existing General Specification on Buildings and prepare for the publishing of a new edition of the General Specification by end of 2003 | Measured in terms of progress towards publishing a new edition of the General Specification by end of 2003 | The 2003 Edition of the General Specification for Building was issued in Dec 2003 | |
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