the site and began the removal of 60,000 cubic yards of earth, necessary before any building could commence. The tenders were let on a provisional bills of quantity basis and the contrac- tor agreed to complete the structure in 80 days, irrespective of any new instructions or further requirements made during construction.
The structure was to include all the normal services, i.e. water, electricity, drainage etc. The nature of the work to be carried on in the building demanded a large and rather com- plicated electrical system.
The contractor worked on a double shift every day the evening one under floodlighting and employed at one time, 400 men on the site each shift. A P.W.D. engineer was on site most of the time to supervise the building.
The metal windows used throughout were imported from Japan.
contractors.
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2 FACULTY OF ARTS
3 LIBRARY
4 FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
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K. C. Boon and Cheah were the where the University has built or is extension to the arts building.
building some 80 houses for the staff, four-storey arts building and the three A site has been reserved for
lecture theatres at its side cost The area on which the library and the medical faculty buildings. Devel- the arts building now stand is to be
$882,000 Malayan and the library opment of this faculty is not included the core of the University campus.
building $340,000. in the first phase, as it will be related At the moment, the arts building Earth work on the science faculty to the 500-bed Federal Teaching Hos- houses the University administration building has only just begun and the pital which is to be sited to the south and the arts faculty offices, a general buildings are expected to be ready by of the University precinct. This hos- pital scheme has been posponed inde- finitely due to lack of funds.
concourse meeting area, seminar the end of February 1960 for the start rooms, and lecture theatres, When of the second teaching year. It will the University is complete there will house departments of physics and The road between the
the medical be a separate administration building chemistry in the three-storey block faculty site and the arts building links and a great hall adjacent to this pre- fronting the road, mathematics and up with the town of Petaling Jaya sent building, with perhaps a further geology in a Y-shaped building, and
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