START SOON ON SATELLITE STATION
CHIEF architect of table and Wireless, Ltd., Mr. H. C. Upton, FRIBA, will arrive in Hong Kong this month to supervise the planning and construction of the communica- tions satellite earth station to be built at Stanley at a cost of about HK$40 million.
The station, sited at Wong Ma Kuk on Stanley penin- sular, will consist of an aerial dish and tower, control
Stanley station
building and power house. The dish and tower enable the satellite to be tracked and guide the radio energy to and from the satellite. The control building will contain the aerial control console. communications control con- sole and the multiplexing equipment which allows many telephone conver- sations to be superimposed on to one radio frequency carrier.
The aerial dish will be a 90 ft. diameter parabolic reflector construct- ed from a mild steel backing structure and covered with an aluminium alloy skin, 0.80 in. thick. The tower will be 40 ft. high and the overall maximum height of the structure will be 82 ft. in the zenith position.
A contract for site formation will be let this month, to be followed within three months by the contracts for foundations and construction of the conical tower and ancillary buildings. Marconi Co. Ltd, are the main con- tractors for the plant and equipment.
HK$6.75 M. FILTRATION WORKS
A FILTRATION plant capable of processing 6 million gal- lons of water a day is to be built near San Hui in the New Territories of Hong Kong to serve the new town now under development in Castle Peak, The building cost, including site formation, will be HK$6.75 million and the plant is expected to be ready for use by the end of 1970.
The ultimate capacity of the plant will be 60 million gallons a day sufficient to meet the needs of a popula- tion of 1 million. To enable the first phase of the pro- ject to be put in hand, work will start in April on the formation of a site for the filtration plant.
The 12-acre site will be formed by levelling hills near the 21-milestone. Castle Peak Road. The work will in- volve the excavation and removal of some 130,000 cu. yd. of earth and rocks, the formation of a 1,800 ft. long ac- cess road from Castle Peak Road and the diversion of an existing stream which runs through the site. Con- struction of the filtration plant itself is expected to start in March next year following completion of the site formation work.
Altogether seven structures of various sizes will be built. These include a two-storey block to accommodate
SHOPS AND FLATS COMPLEX
Now nearing comple- tion at Park Road, Singa- pore, is this massive shopping and residential complex, estimated to cost about $$2.5 million. An urban renewal pro- ject by the Housing and Development Board, it comprises three-storeys of shops and eating stails with a nine-storey block of flats at the rear.
The accommodation will include 90 two-room flats, 40 three-room flats, 290 shops, 74 eating stalls, a creche and a kindergar- ten. Work began on the site late last year.
the laboratory, the chemical store and offices, a pumping station, a fuel tank, an inlet flume, a transformer, a clari- fier to separate the sediments and the two-tiered filter beds. In addition, a four-storey building will be built to provide quarters for the staff members.
HOUSING SOCIETY'S PROGRAMME
USING its own finance, the Hong Kong Housing Society hopes to build at least 6,000 flats by 1973, to house about 36,000 persons.
The Society's annual report, published last month, states that at the end of 1966, negotiations were in hand for obtaining finances from sources other than Govern- ment, but these fell through and it was decided that the Society had sufficient funds from its own operations to embark on the development of the Kau Pui Lung Road site, Kowloon.
"By not borrowing money for the building of this estate." states the report, "and thus not having to pay back the capital cost plus interest to Government, the Society will be able to increase its own funds for future building once rents have started to come in . . . However, with further assistance from Government, this programme could be speeded up and it is hoped that funds will be made available again from 1969 onwards."
The first phase of the Kau Pui Lung Road estate. for which the architects are W. Szeto and Partners, con- sists of two 15-storey blocks with 1,239 flats and will in- clude the estate office, a kindergarten, community centre. and 14 shops with living quarters. This phase will be completed early next year and the whole estate of 2,789 flats will be finished in 1970.
EXTENSION FOR KWAI CHUNG ESTATE
An extension to the Government low-cost housing estate at Kwai Chung is to be constructed shortly to provide accommodation for some 7.000 more people. The exten- sion will be located on the east of the estate in Wo Yee Hop Road in the Kwai Chung area of Tsuen Wan in the New Territories. Hong Kong. It will consist of two domestic blocks, one 20 storeys high and the other 12 storeys.
A six-storey-high estate school with 24 classrooms will also be constructed at the same time for children living in the estate. Work is expected to start in April and will take about 20 months to finish.
THAI ROAD CONTRACT
THE Thai Highway Department last month signed a 119 million baht contract with a Korean firm. Hyuan Dai Construction Co. Ltd., for building a 97-kilometre asphalt road between Tak and Term in Northern Thailand. The road is expected to be finished by August 1970.
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