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will also be responsible for certain mechanical and civil works in respect of both those projects.
Now that the house building pro- gramme has been so far advanced, consideration is being given to other amenities that are required by such a large community. Work is proceed- ing on the building of such things as a 5000 square feet Ice Plant and Cold Storage building, shops, including one self-help shop measuring 100'0" x 40'0", a laundry, a bakery, a car- bonated water plant, a bulk store of nearly 7000 square feet, a Mosque and a school, and plans are being laid to build an hotel, a fire station, swimming pools, tennis courts, sports fields and club houses catering for all classes of residents.
(Above) SITUFOAM houses for senior regional staff of the
British Malayan Petroleum Co., Seria.
(Left). An aerial view of the l'asir Panjang Power Station in course of erection. "SITUFOAM" was again used to site, and 25,000 tons of earth were 350 construct the new State Hospital in then excavated and removed: Brunei. North Borneo. This hospital bearing piles were driven and the consists of eleven single-storey build- whole area sealed with a twelve-inch bonded to the ings, varying in length from 43'0" to carpet of concrete 362'0", all situated on a seven-acre heads of the piles. This was covered site and all interconnected by cover- by a waterproofing membrane and ed pathways. They are fitted with a on top of this came the raft itself. wide and up to date ranee of hos- consisting of a 2-ft. thick reinforced pital equipment and offer all the concrete slab ribbed in both direc- facilities of a general hospital as well tions at 20-ft. centres with beams as having specialised departments, 5-ft. deep by 9'6" wide. like maternity and dental, and an isolation block for leper and mental cases.
The steel framework was erected in less than six months and the entire superstructure was completed The reconstruction of parts of the in about eighteen months. The base- North Borneo Railway system was ment floor houses the air-condition- also carried out by Wimpeys.
War ing plant. boilers. pumps. service damage to the railway was very controls and workshops. The lower extensive and bridges at Papar, ground floor contains the vaults, safe Patagas, Putatan, Kimanis, Bon- deposits and strongrooms, and on the ganan, and Membakut were either repaired or replaced. The tunnel at Pengalat was widened and its height increased.
same level is a garage, equipped with At Sungei Gerong. Sumatra. a
turntables, affording accommodation similar type of contract has recently
for 24 cars. The highly ornate Bank- been concluded for the Standard
ing Hall occupies the entire upper Vacuum Petroleum Maatschappij. In Another "SITUFOAM" contract has ground floor, and the various types this instance Wimpeys were also been completed at Klang, near Kuala of finishings include marbles, bron- responsible for preparing, draining. Lumpur, Malaya, where 226 of the zework and mosaic panels. The build- clearing. grading and levelling the 237 houses for the Central Electricity ing is completely air-conditioned and swampy site an engineering task of Board's employees at Connaught six high-speed lifts have been install- some magnitude. A village of 266 Bridge Power Station were con- ed to serve all floors. semi-detached "SITUFOAM" houses structed by this method at the rate The power station at Pasir Pan- has been built. together with all of one house every six working hours. jang for the Municipality of Singa- roads. water mains, gas and electri- The remainder were built in trad!- pore was started about three years city and sewage disposal services tional brickwork and the roads. ago.
Its completion was a matter connected with the development of water mains and drainage for the of desperate urgency to alleviate the estate. A transport canal. 1 complete estate installed.
the acute shortage of power. and miles long, was constructed and early
A building contract of a different despite many difficulties caused works also included site offices. nature has been completed in Hong by local conditions following the workshops, plant depots, and other Kong. This was the erection of a development of the Korean war. facilities required on the oilfield. 17-storey steel-framed granite-clad this result was achieved before the At later stages of the contract structure, 243 feet high, for the Bank end of 1952, when the power station were built a Mosque, a shopping of China, and it is the tallest build- came into partial operation. centre, a new Bailey bridge across ing on the island. The preparation the canal. church, blocks of bache of the foundations was an engineer- lor quarters, a commissary, tennis ing task of considerable magnitude courts, playing flelds and other When trial holes to a depth of 100 amenities. During the last two feet failed to reach rock bottom. it years of their stay on this site. Wim- was decided to build the structure peys assisted in the maintenance of on a reinforced concrete raft sup- the oil refinery and they carried out ported by concrete piles driven to an a very large number of jobs of a average depth of 60 feet. Five major and minor character during hundred and fifty sheet piles were that period.
was
Before the original contract completed. the Municipality decided to proceed with extensions which will almost double the generating capacity. Wimpeys were asked to proceed with this extra work and they plan to have the whole of the
power station
operating about the middle of 1954. (All photographs reproduced in this article are driven around the perimeter of the the copyright of Wimpey News".)
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