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with Soy Street, Hamilton Street, Nelson Street, Waterloo Road and the fifth at the Jordan Road ferry concourse, are proposed to make up for the deficiency of land for government and community use. Each of these complexes is intended to serve as a local community centre and will incorporate such facilities as a market, hawker bazaar, schools, government offices, libraries, clinics, parking and local open spaces.
A 3,270 ft. long strip of land with an area of 8.7 acres along the waterfront is earmarked for cargo handling purposes, incorporating some asso- ciated industries and lorry parking areas.
Building mechanisation study
Singapore's Housing and Development Board is to make a detailed study of mechanisation methods for the building industry because of the republic's growing shortage of building labour- and rising labour costs.
A team of architects and executives from the board will visit Europe in August and September to look at modern construction machinery and sys- tems of prefabrication.
A spokesman for the board said last month that it was generally agreed in Europe that complete mechanisation and prefabrication were only econo- mical when labour costs reached 50 per cent of the total construction cost. In Singapore labour costs now represented about 30 per cent. of the building
costa rise of ten per cent in three years. The pre- sent aim was therefore to introduce the kind of machinery that would reduce site labour without increasing costs.
Last year the board purchased 100 large-capa- city concrete mixers for use by its contractors. These are said to have reduced manpower for con- crete mixing by 60 per cent and increased produc- tivity by 150 per cent.
Resettlement block for villagers
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This new Mark V resettlement block at Tsz Wan Shan will house 1,700 villagers from four villages in the Tung Tau Cottage area, Kowloon City, which must make way for a large housing complex and a link road. The site where the villages now stand will eventually house 20,000 people.
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