LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD
WONG NG OUYANG & ASSOCIATES LESLIE OUYANG, BSc, FIStructE, MASCE., MConsE C. JOHN MANN & SON, YEOMAN & EDWARDS ON LEE & CO.
SHUN HING CO.
sembly hall at Cloud View Road level. The assembly hall structure is built on the north end of the school with an entrance at first floor level reached via four flights of steps from Cloud View Road. Doubling as a gymnasium, the hall is fan-shaped and extends to a maximum width of 83ft. Part of it cantilevers 23ft. from the west face; this design saved the cost of very deep foundations at the lower end of the site.
The two end walls of the assembly hall are designed as deep cantilever girders, supporting a slab floor on cross beams. Placing concrete for the
walls was the most difficult part of the whole construction. Temporary scaf- folding from the ground base had to reach up 40ft. to the underside of the walls and the architects had to design special shuttering for use by the con- tractors to ensure rigidity.
The car park floor, or assembly hall ceiling, and the car park roof, which will act the floor of a future chapel, are designed as an integral deep girder with an opening for cars to enter.
Reinforced concrete slab/beam and column construction is used for the school. It is founded on rock and uses normal spread footings. The building
Steps from Cloud View Road to assembly hall entrance
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was the first in this part of Cloud View Road is which cut out of the hillside and had not been completed at the time of construction. Extra-strength screen walls were built within the school to retain the future road and in fact the building itself acts as one big retaining wall.
The school is 130ft. high and 220ft. long, including staircases at each end. There is a single eight-person lift, key operated, for the teaching and maintenance staff.
A one-bay cantilever of 12ft. 6in. extends from the south wall to give a visual break and provide extra space for lavatories on the classroom and ad- ministrative floors. The assembly hall on the north end of the school is 80ft. high and will take a chapel above to a further 60ft.
Maintenance-free but economic materials have been used throughout the school. Asphalt tiles in grey and white are used in the standard 24ft. x 25ft. classrooms, while corridors have mosaic tiled floors and dado and ceilings of fairface concrete. External- ly all columns, beams, fins and sun- breakers are covered with washed granolithic and panels are painted white.
Site formation and substructure work took six months to complete and the superstructure took a further 11 months.
The total cost was HK$3,123,000,
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up as follows:
Site work and
substructure
Superstructure
Lift installation
Contractors
HK$600,000 2,470,000 53,000
The main contractor was On Lee and Co. and the substructure contrac- tor was Shun Hing Co. Sub-contractors included:
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Plumbing - Tung On Plumbing Co.
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Electrical The Grandeur Electri- cal Co.
Fire services installation - Victory Manufacturing Co.
Lift Hitachi Elevator Engineer- ing Co. (HK) Ltd.
Far East BUILDER, October 1969
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