diagrams; circle and rink method; maintaining logic by use of dummies numbering arrow diagrams, activity dura- tions; analysing diagram to find critical path; concept of float and types of float; discussion of resource allocation, use of computers, and application of network analysis in building industry.
CONTRACT FOR OIL TERMINAL
A CONTRACT worth more than HK$15 million has been signed by Mobil Oil (Hong Kong) Ltd. with Taylor Woodrow International Ltd., London, for the construc- tion of an oil products terminal, including tank farm and loading jetty, on Tsing Yi Island.
The award, a package deal, covers the design and completion of all the civil engineering work, which com- prises a seawall and reclamation, terracing of the exist- ing landscape, roads, installation of foundations for the storage tanks and drainage.
This will involve some 1,100,000 cu. yd. of earth- moving to provide terracing and a continuous reclama- tion area half a mile long, which will accommodate tank farms and ancillary works. The 900 ft. long steel piled jetty with berthing dolphins has been designed to take oil tankers of up to 42,000 d.w.t.
Completion of the project is scheduled for early 1967. Preparatory work is already in hand and full scale operations will start next month when about 200 workers will be employed on the site.
TRAINING FOR KOREAN PLANNERS
FOUR European countries have agreed to finance training programmes for some 30 Korean city planners who are to work on the development of a new town outside Seoul.
This was announced last month by Mr. Chun Ye- yong. Korean Construction Minister, who returned recent- ly from a tour of construction projects in Britain, France. Denmark, the Netherlands, West Germany and Israel.
Mr. Chun said that preliminary plans were now be ing prepared for a new town across the Han River in an area now known as South Seoul. A comprehensive mas- ter plan for the town, which would have a population of about 500,000, would take about two years to complete.
The town would have its own light industry. Its pur pose was to take overspill population from the capital.
HOTEL NEARS COMPLETION
HOTEL Siam Intercontinental. Thailand's latest first class hotel and tourist centre under construction on a 30 acre site at Sraptum Palace property. Bangkok, is due to be opened next June.
The first stage. 224 bedrooms, will occupy 12 acres of the site, leaving the remaining areas for future expan- sion which will include 190) more rooms, a shopping cen- tre, office buildings and recreational facilities.
Bangkok Intercontinental Hotels Co., Ltd. are the developers. They have been issued a promotion certificate by the Board of Investment Promotion, entitling them to exemption from custom duties and business tax on the machinery and equipment imported for the construction of the hotel and exemp- tion from income taxes for the first five fiscal years after the hotel is opened.
Tibbetts - Abbett Mc Carthy-Stratton, in associa- tion with Mr. Joseph Sal- erno, are the architects. The consulting engineer is Mr. Walther Proskosch.
The general contractors are South East Asia Con- struction Co., Ltd.. in asso- ciation with Siphya Con- struction Co., Ltd.
NEW ADVENTIST SANATORIUM
A NEW Adventist sanatorium proposed on a hillside site at Stubbs Road, overlooking Happy Valley. Hong Kong. is planned as a circular building with seven storeys over a car port.
The basic plan was evolved after a series of func- tional studies by the architects. Wong. Ng Ouyang and Associates, who concluded that this solution would pro-
Artist's sketch of the Adventist sanatorium
vide an economy of circulation space and a centralisation of services not possible in more conventional forms.
The building, estimated to cost HK$5 million, will consist of an outer ring of rooms surrounding an inner core. Nursing station, utility area and vertical transpor- tations will be contained in this inner core while the outer ring of rooms will have hospital beds on the top three floors, all in private rooms with attached baths.
Due to the centralised position of the nurses' station. all rooms can be easily served. The lower floors will ac- commodate all facilities usually provided in large general hospitals such as surgical suite, maternity suite, radiology department. pharmacy and clinic. The area per floor is 16,277.7 sq. ft. and there is space for 100 beds.
Entrances to the hospital will be on three separate levels, taking advantage of the sloping site. The entrance for the general public is at the second storey above car- port level, with the service floor directly below that.
TUNNEL APPROACH WORK
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WORK is expected to begin shortly on the seawall foun- dations of the Wanchai reclamation. Hong Kong essential preliminary to the construction of the approaches for the proposed cross-harbour tunnel.
Estimated cost of the approach works is HK$7 mil- lion, and investigations of the seabed have already been made under the direction of the consulting engineers. Scott & Wilson, Kirkpatrick and Partners.
Main hall of the Hotel Siam Intercontinental under construction
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