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Views looking from the north (above) and south of Mr. Christopher Haffner's design for a spastic children's centre to be built at Sandy Bay, Hong Kong. The centre will provide accommodation and educational facilities for about 60 children. It will be named the Kennedy Memorial Centre for Spastic Children and is being financed by the United States Government through the World Rehabilitation Fund. The corner stone for the building was laid last month. Mr. David Bailey is the quantity surveyor.
buildings of all types erected totalled 82. including nine factories and godowns, four offices and shops. 59 houses and flats and ten others.
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In September the cost of new building work was HK$100,970,109, and site formation HK$5,133,040, total of 117 new buildings was erected.
SINGAPOREAN'S CANADIAN APPOINTMENT
A SINGAPOREAN, Dr. Raymond Yong Nen Yiu, aged 36. has been appointed Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics. and director of the soils mechanics laboratory at McGill University, Montreal.
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Professor Yong obtained a degree from Washington Jefferson College. Penn., USA in 1950, and a B.Sc. in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952. He received a Master of Science degree from Purdue Univer. sity, Indiana in 1955 and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from McGill in 1960.
He is an associate member of the
Prof. Yong Canadian Institute of Civil Engineers, and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
ASBESTOS CEMENT SUPPLIERS
A LIST of suppliers of asbestos cement products is being compiled by the Hong Kong Public Works Department. Firms dealing in this material are invited to apply to the department at Central Government Offices, stating the manufacturers whom they represent.
All firms included in the list will receive private in- vitations to tender for any Government work when as- bestos cement products are required.
RP BUY KOREAN CEMENT
KOREAN cement will be used for the first time on a large-scale construction scheme in the Philippines follow-
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ing the recent signing of a P2.3 million contract between the National Waterworks and Sewerage Authority and Hwansun Industrial Co., Ltd.
Under the contract Hwansun, the lowest tenderers. will supply 550,000 bags of Portland cement (type 1) for the third Bicti-Novaliches aqueduct, which will be cons- tructed in Norzagaray, Bulacan and Novaliches, Quezon City. The aqueduct is expected to be completed in two years at a cost of P13.6 million.
BIDS FOR RESETTLEMENT BLOCKS
ANOTHER 16-storey and two eight-storey blocks, together with one 24-classroom estate school, will be built shortly at the Shek Pai Wan resettlement estate in Aberdeen, Hong Kong, east of the existing Jockey Club Clinic.
The three blocks, which are the final buildings to be constructed in the estate, will provide accommodation for some 9.000 people, making a total of about 30.000 people for the whole estate.
Construction work is expected to start in early January and should be completed about 20 months later. Government is now inviting tenders.
Bids are also being invited for building four 16-storey blocks and one 24-classroom primary estate school at the Ngau Tau Kok resettlement estate in the densely-populated Kowloon City area of Kowloon.
The site of this estate is on the western side of the existing Jordan Valley resettlement estate, west of Ngau Tau Kok Road and east of Kwun Tong Road. The first four blocks will accommodate 16,500 people.
MALAYSIAN BUILDING BOOM
DESPITE Confrontation from Indonesia the main sectors of the Malaysian economy recorded substantial growth during 1965. The country's gross national product at current prices has shown a growth of about 8.5 per cent. compared with a growth of 7.6 per cent. in 1964. The building industry contributed more than its share to achieve this progress.
Finance Minister. Tan Siew Sin, presenting his bud- get for 1966 in the Malaysian Parliament last month, said "Building and construction activity continued at high
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