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Student Union to Meet
in Stockholm
THE newly established International Union of Students in Architecture (UIEA) is to hold its first congress in Stockholm from June 22 to 25 this year. Some 300 universities throughout the world have been invited to participate.
The congress will deal primarily with education and extension education and is expected to end with a demand for an international coordinated educational reform. A statement to that effect is likely to be placed before the Architects' Congress which is to take place in Paris this coming autumn.
In addition to lectures on topical subjects by pro- minent Swedish and foreign experts, the Stockholm congress will include visits to old and modern exam- ples of Swedish architecture.
Group Will Build Hospitals
A CONSORTIUM of British contractors has been formed to quote for and handle the design, construction and equip- ment of complete hospitals in any part of the world.
The companies are Humphreys, Ltd.. Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd. and Associated British Hospital Equipment, Ltd. They have retained Frederick S. Snow and Partners, London, as consulting engineers for civil, structural and mechanical services.
With their subsidiaries and associated companies these firms claim to able to provide for every aspect of design and the supply of teaching and specialist require- ments for hospitals. Their secretairat is at 33 Grosvenor Place, London, S.W.1.
Hanover Fair on in April
Europe's biggest shop window for construction equip- ment and machinery for building materials, the Hanover Fair, is to be held this year from April 24 to May 2.
More than 5,800 manufacturers from Europe and other parts of the world will be exhibiting in the display area which covers 717,600 sq. yd.
Detailed information about the fair and a 60-page catalogue giving a list of the machines and exhibitors is available from Fachgemeinschaft Bau-und Baustoff- maschinen im VDMA_e.V., 6 Frankfurt am Main, Munchener Strasse 56.
First Stage of Sydney Project
A CIRCULAR tower building rising 515 ft. above the commercial heart of Sydney is the dominant feature of the A£124 million Australia Square project, the first stage of which was completed last month,
This first stage is a 14-storey slab block, soon to be dwarfed by the 42-storey tower. The core of the fully air-conditioned tower will contain stair wells, toilets and a battery of 18 lifts.
Two levels of shopping connected by escalators will provide complete facilities for the estimated 6,000 per- sons expected to work within the 11-acre island site. Other features will include auditoriums and theatrettes,
Far East Architect & Builder March, 1965
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Model of the Australia Square project
exhibition areas, modular office space and a top-of-the- tower restaurant and observation terrace.
The ground floors of the slab block and the tower are left open so that a ground level plaza may be continued beneath both buildings. Parking for 400 cars is provided underground. Architect is Mr. Harry Seidler.
Building Control in South Africa
SOUTH AFRICAN Government is to apply strict control to non-essential building, in an attempt to improve the country's housing situation.
This was
announced recently by the Minister of Housing, Mr. P. W. Botha, who has appointed a com- mittee to scrutinise building plans which are passed monthly by municipalities. Office building, garages, luxury flats and some types of private houses will be affected by the controls, which are being applied under the terms of an Act passed in 1957.
English Translation of Concrete Code
AN ENGLISH translation of "Recommendations for an International Code of Practice for Reinforced Concrete"
developed by the European Concrete Committee (CEB) has been published by the Cement and Con- crete Association, London, in cooperation with the American Concrete Institute.
Copies are available from the C & CA, 52 Grose- venor Gardens, London, S.W.1, for 30 shillings, or from the ACI, PO Box 4754, Redford Station, Detroit, Michigan, at US$4.50.
The CEB Code Recommendations represent the first step in what is hoped to become a European concrete code. Many of the principles, based on ultimate load design, follow closely the ACI Code and the Soviet regulations. The recommendations apply to all rein- forced concrete structures except lightweight and pre- stressed concrete, concrete exposed to temperatures above 70 C (126 F), structural concrete with rigid reinforcement and composite (concrete/steel) structures.
The document is divided into two sections: Prin- ciples and Recommendations, each explained by com- ments on, the facing left-hand page. The Principles have been approved as a "Resolution of the CEB" and repre- sent the basis of the standard regulation toward which
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