People's Park project
ished within ten months; it includes a five-level parking structure with space for 500 cars and direct entry to the shopping floors.
The second stage of the project comprises a 25-storey slab block housing 300 flats of one to five rooms. On each floor will be a community area for children and a communal service area.
The People's Park scheme is the largest of the first series of urban renewal projects offered to pri- vate developers by the Singapore Government. Architects are Design Partnership.
Hong Kong's second largest hospital
One of the largest hospital's in the Common- wealth and second largest in Hong Kong will be built on a promontory to the west of Lai Chi Kok Bay. Site formation is about to be completed and construction of the hospital buildings will begin within the next few weeks. They are scheduled to be finished by 1972.
The hospital, planned by Government architects primarily as a district general hospital with a total of 1,310 beds, is designed to cater specially to the needs of the densely populated area of north west Kowloon and the rapidly developing townships of Kwai Chung and Tsuen Wan. It is designed in three inter-connected blocks to make full use of the limited site.
One block of five storeys will house a modern casualty and emergency department as well as the engineering and other services. The second, eleven storeys high, will provide some 760 beds and a suite of six operating theatres.
The third block, also of eleven storeys, is designed for the greatest possible flexibility in use. It will contain a general infectious diseases unit of some 120 beds, serving the needs of Kowloon and the New Ter- ritories, and replacing pre- sent outmoded facilities, a special infectious disease
Lai Chi Kok hospital
unit of some 30 beds, and some 400 beds for the elderly and chronic sick.
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An interesting feature of the hospital is a cen tral operating theatre service centre the first of its kind in Hong Kong. This centre follows closely the design developed by the Scottish South Eastern Regional Hospital Board at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh.
On another site directly behind the Lai Chi Kok Hospital, a mental hospital with over 1,000 beds has been planned. Incorporated into the design are the quarters for the residential medical, nursing and other staffs of both hospitals.
Taiwan hydro-electric project progresses
The half-way stage has been reached on Taiwan's Lower Tachien hydro-electric power station, which will have an installed capacity of 360 MW and will be the largest on the island.
The first and second generators at the station will be on stream in 1970 and the third and fourth will be installed as work progresses on the Tachien dam project on the upper stream. Five stations are being built by the Taiwan Power Co. on the Tachia River to give a total capacity of 1,020 MW.
Most of the works on the Lower Tachien pro- ject are underground. A 7.5 km. tunnel of 6.6 metres diameter will be driven for feeding water to an underground powerhouse. The tunnel will run below two river beds and must cut through four known faults. The powerhouse has a width of 17.5 metres. Its elevation is below the Tachia River bed by 70 metres.
Height of the Tachien dam is 180 metres. Full water level of the reservoir is 1,408 metres above sea level and the capacity is 232 million cu. metres. Three water turbine-generators of 78,000 kW capa- city each will be installed in an underground station.
Start on Singapore flyover
Work began last month on the Oxley Rise Fort Canning flyover project in Singapore. The contractors are Union Contractors.
Some 200 prestressed concrete beams, from 44 ft. to 67 ft. long, are being supplied to the pro- ject by Hume Industries (Far East) Ltd. to span the flyover across Clemenceau Avenue.
Far East BUILDER, January 1969.
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