include: "Corrosion of aluminium and other metals in concrete" and "Analysis of data from field jobs using the accelerated curing method for the strength determination of concrete".
Sydney development will include 850ft. tower
The Sydney City Commissioners have given ap- proval to a A$25 million development project in the heart of the city, the dominant feature of which will be an 850ft. tower to carry observation platforms, restaurant and tourist facilities.
A.M.P. Society and The Coote Estate Pty. Ltd. are the building owners for the project to be called Centrepoint. Their architects are Donald Crone and Associates, with Wargon, Chapman and Associates acting as consulting engineers for the tower design.
The building itself will contain ten floors of office space and four levels of retail space with 220 small shops. A series of underground and overhead shopping promenades will connect the building to the adjacent David Jones and Farmers Stores. Work will begin in 1970.
The tower will contain an observation floor, cafeteria and concession floor, cocktail lounge, re- volving restaurant to seat 200 and space for the Postmaster General's department. The floor diame- ter of these facilities will range from 53 ft. to 70 ft. at the top floor. The core of the tower will be 22 ft. in diameter and will contain two lifts.
Progress on Auckland Harbour bridge extension
Work is expected to be completed early next year on the widening of the Auckland Harbour bridge, being undertaken by Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., Tokyo.
The bridge, which is 3,340 ft. long, links the central business and commercial area of Auckland
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with extensive suburbs on the northern shore of Waitemata Harbour. It is also the main road link between the city and the rapidly-developing North- land peninsular of New Zealand's north island.
Two new motor lanes on each side of the present four-lane structure are being added. The steel sec- tions for the bridge were built in Japan and shipped to Auckland, where they have been hoisted into place by two large cranes.
Start made on Tokyo World Trade Centre
Tokyo Terminal Co., contractors for the pro- jected World Trade Centre in Tokyo, announced recently that the new building would be 40 storeys high instead of 38 as originally planned.
To be built at Hamamatsucho in Minato Ward, the structure will rise 152 metres above ground, some 5 metres higher than the 36-storey Kaumi- gaseki Building in Chiyoda Ward. Work has just begun on the site.
The cost of constructing the centre, which will have a total floor area of 158,516 sq. metres, is estimated at 15,000 million yen. A ten-storey an- nex envisaged in the original design will be changed to a five-storey structure and the shopping centre originally planned to he built underground will now occupy second and third floors of the 40-storey block.
Far East BUILDER, November 1968.