QUOTE(sasuke123 @ Nov 27 2016, 11:13 AM)
30 or 30000 years property developer, if contractor or architect sucks outcome also nonsense ma.
billionaire doesnt mean promise us quality ma, why always want to mention people who are loaded but knows nothing about building structure, is he an architect or contractor?
Agreed.... but nowadays hard to say.
Many public listed developers do
Value Engineering and squeeze maincon costs. Many prominent maincons are merely management contractors and they sub-out to subcons. So it's many levels kinda thing. Alot cost-cuting.
Besides that, as you know, most developers rely alot on consultants (architect, C&S, M&E, landscape, planner, etc) and it really depends on the team for the particular project. It varies according to project. Even using prominent consultants do not mean might be excellent, because then you have to see whether the Person-In-Charge is experienced enough or not. Management oversight tend to happen as well.
Lastly, our general workmanship across the construction industry is still way below subpar compared to even countries like China (first and second-tier cities comparison). We still rely alot on foreign labour and the conventional labour-intensive style. Foreign exchange disadvantages also mean that we need to rely entirely on cost management and prudence in our materials used, so sometimes substitution of products do happen.