Sketch showing quarters and health centre for Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shui, New Territories, the centre will command fine views of Chung Chi College and Shatin Hoi below.
It will provide routine medical and dental ser- vices and facilities for confinement of minor ill- nesses for the students, faculty and staff of the university. The project is estimated to cost HK$1 million. Finance will come from the funds of the Yale-in-China Association.
The health centre will be a two-storey rein- forced concrete structure with a floor area of 6,000 sq.ft. at each level. It will be divided into a medical consultation section and a ward section. The medical section, occupying 65 per cent of the area, will include a general office, consultation and examination rooms, treatment room, minor sur- gery, dental surgery, X-ray services, laboratory, dispensary and offices, as well library for part-time psychologist, psychiatrist, ocullist and health edu- cator.
The ward will consist of six single rooms, three double rooms and two isolation rooms, laid out to function independently of the medical consultation section.
Sited about 30 ft. from the health centre, the staff quarters will be a three-storey building of 2,000 sq.ft. per floor. It will accommodate two doctors and four nurses who will be the resident staff for the centre.
SIA Officers elected
Mr. Rex Koh Kim Chuan has been elected presi- dent of the Singapore Institute of Architects for 1970/71, in succession to Mr. Lim Chong Keat.
Other officers elected at the recent annual general meeting of the association were: Mr. Ho Pak Toe, vice-president; Mr. Kuah Leong Heng, hon. secretary; and Mr. Lim Soon Chye, hon. trea-
surer.
Council members for the year will be: Messrs. John Taiping Chou, Albert H.K. Hong, Kok Siew Hoong, Laurence Lau Peng On, Lee Weng Yan, Liu
Thai-Ker, Sim Hong Boon, Tio Seng Chin, Wee Chwee Heng, and Alfred H.K. Wong.
HK$6 million College of Education
Hong Kong Government has approved an initial vote of HK$200,000 from the 1970/71 budget for work to be started later this year on the HK$6 million Sir Robert Black College of Education.
The new college, at Piper's Hill, will replace the existing college of education in Hung Hom. It will occupy a 100,000 sq.ft. site and is expected to be ready by mid-1972.
Included in the complex will be nine blocks of two to five storeys, giving a total of five class- rooms, 22 tutorial rooms, four lecture rooms, 12 specialist rooms for arts and sciences, a language laboratory, a gymnasium, library and an auditor- ium. In addition to a students' hostel, there will be quarters for wardens and minor staff.
Piling for new Hilton
United Engineers (S) Pte. Ltd. have won a S$500,000 contract for piling for Singapore's se- cond Hilton Hotel to be built at Bras Basah Road site.
The contract entails the driving of 400 steel H piles, each pile measuring 14in. x 141⁄2in. and weighing 89 lb. per ft. Work has started on the site and is due for completion within three months.
Singapore Hilton East will be 22 storeys high and will contain 300 rooms.
Tenders for runway extension
Local and international civil engineering con- tractors are now being invited to tender for the principal contract of the project to extend Hong Kong Airport runway by 2,500 ft.
The contract will cover the construction of 1.25 miles of seawalls and the reclamation of about 60 acres of sea bed. Some 6,250,000 cu.yd. of filling material will be used. Consulting engineers for the project are Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick and Partners.
Far East BUILDER, May 1970
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