and fowl. The other will be a detached single-storey block with pens or stalls for larger animals.
Work on building the institute is expected to start in April next year and will take about ten to twelve months to complete.
Centre for retarded children
The first of two new centres planned by the Singapore Association for Retarded Children is be- ing erected at Margaret Drive, Singapore, on a site of about 70,000 sq. ft. The second will be built at Jurong. Each will cost about S$250,000.
The Margaret Drive centre will consist of a block housing research laboratory, offices for social
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Margaret Drive centre for retarded children
workers and administrative staff and a canteen-cum- assembly hall, plus 12 classrooms in a cluster of hexagonal-shaped structures. Except for part of the administrative block the buildings will be single- storey to reduce foundation costs. The blocks will linked by covered ways.
Architect for the centre is Mr. Low Ah Long. Work is expected to be complete by mid-1969.
Second export zone in Taiwan
Taiwan will soon have its second export proces- sing zone at Nantse, 11 kilometres from Kaoh- siung. It will cover 100 hectares and will be larger than the first zone at Kaohsiung which is now fully occupied.
A new community with living quarters, hotels, schools, entertainment and public services will be developed adjacent to the zone and a new highway will be built to link the zone with central Kaohsiung and Kaohsiung Harbour. One of the faults of the first zone was that land limitations restricted the con- struction of accommodation for working personnel.
The Taiwan Government is also considering the provision of two new industrial zones at Tantse, Taichung and Hsintien, Taipei. At Tantse the pro- posed site covers 20 hectares. It will utilize an ob- solete sugar processing mill which is already install- ed with electric power and water.
Plans for secondary technical school
Places for more than 900 primary school gradu- ates will be provided in a new secondary technical school planned at Kung Lok Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon. Foundation work will start in December and superstructure work will begin in April 1969. On completion in 1970 the school will comprise
13 specialist rooms and 21 classrooms. The specialist rooms will include physics and chemistry labora- tories and workshops. A two-storey assembly hall will be attached to the five-storey building.
The construction cost of the school, estimated at HK$21⁄2 million, will be met by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club. A second school to the same designs is to be built at North Kowloon. Both schemes have been prepared by architects of the Public Works Department.
Roadbuilding with chemicals
The Philippine Bureau of Public Works is ex- perimenting in Davoa City with a new road build- ing process that uses chemicals to stabilize and harden the ground surface.
Larutan Far East Corp. supply the chemical which is known as Paczyme. It "welds" together earth, sand and stone particles to form a cemented roadway.
After grading and smoothing of the surface, the chemical is applied from ordinary road sprink- lers at a ratio of about one part to 1,000 parts of water. The set material repels water and is said to have a self-sealing action should external damage
occur.
Start this month on pools project
Work starts this month on a HK$4.5 million swimming pool complex at Morse Park, Kowloon. The scheme comprises two 50-metre pools, a diving pool, three teaching pools and a water play-area
Morse Park pools
and a paddling pool for young children. A covered stand will accommodate 800 people.
The project, prepared by PWD architects, is similar to ones now under construction at Li Cheng Uk and Kwun Tong. It can hold up to 5,000 people.
Story of the Hong Kong Housing Authority
The story of how 25 acres of fine headland site near Aberdeen has been adapted to accommodate 54,000 people is told in a new publication from the Hong Kong Government Information Services on the Wah Fu estate.
The folder also traces the history of the Housing Authority since its inception in 1954 and outlines the vast programme of works it has undertaken to provide homes for lower middle-income residents.
Far East BUILDER, November 1968.
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