For civil aviation about S$6.7 million is pro- vided, mainly for the first phase deevelopment of the Lebar international airport. The major project will be the redevelopment of the passenger ter- minal building (S$3 million). Extension of the existing parking aprons will cost $$1 million.
A hotel and catering training school and an ad- jacent luxury hotel are also scheduled to be built during 1970/71 at a revised cost of S$2.6 million.
Progress on Singapore container complex
A huge transit shed for container cargo, 150ft. wide and 420 ft. long, is taking shape at the Port of Singapore Authority's East Lagoon, where the first 700 ft. of a berth for container feeder vessels will become operational within the next few months. Small ships using berth, which has 34ft. of water, will take cargo from bigger ships to other ports in the region.
Reclamation work for the $$77.6 million com- plex is now complete and some 2,250 ft. of mar- ginal wharves is being constructed for container ships. Dredging for the scheme involved the re- moval of 1.2 million cu.yd. of soft material and 100,000 cu.yd. of hard material.
Building plans approved
Fifty new building plans of all types were ap- proved by the Hong Kong Building Authority, and 38 completed buildings certified for occupation in February. Of the plans approved, 16 were on Hong
Kong Island, nine in Kowloon, 11 in New Kowloon and 14 in the New Territories.
In January. 72 new building plans were ap- proved and 47 completed buildings certified for occupation.
Cooks Islands contract for Gammon
Gammon (HK) Ltd. are the major partners in a consortium which has been awarded an HK$35 million contract to build a 7,800 ft. concrete run- way and other facilities on Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands, Central South Pacific.
The other partner in the consortium is Milne Construction Ltd., Auckland. The New Zealand Government is financing the project.
Japan order for Korean bridge
An order for the manufacture of the two main towers and stiffening girder of the Namhae Bridge to be built in South Korea has been placed with IHI (Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. Ltd.), Japan.
The Ministry of Construction for the Republic of Korea awarded the contract through C. Itoh & Co. Ltd. and Yawata Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.
The suspension bridge will have an overall length of 660 metres, a width of 12 metres and a centre span of 404 metres. It will connect Namhae Island, west of Pusan, and Hadong, the opposite shore, in South Korea.
The main towers, each 60 metres high and
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Golden Mile pyramid. Artist's perspective of the S$18 million de- velopment being undertaken at Golden Mile, Singapore. Planned by Design Partnership for Singapura Developments Pte. Ltd., it is a 15-storey building housing shops on various levels, offices, an enter-
tainment deck, luxury flats and penthouses. It has a 400 ft. main frontage and circulation towers at each end. Consultants are: Frank & Vargeson, quantity surveyors; Ove Arup dan Rakan2, structural engineers; and Preece, Cardew & Rider, mechanical engineers.
Far East BUILDER, April 1970
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