Brookes Doors, made with quality and precision for every
kind of opening
Hotel built by Kintetsu in San Francisco
slender wall niche which displays a scroll and floral arrangement. Rooms are decorated with shoji and hand painted fusuma screens, gold leafed in Japan. Three shopping arcades spread out for three blocks be- low the hotel.
Setters hold columns at Australian airport
ERECTORS of the precast concrete structural frame for the new international air terminal at Sydney airport, Australia, have developed an unusual device to help place the 60 ft. high columns. The device is a column- setter which supports the 25-ton columns and holds. them in place until they can be linked together by concrete beams.
The new terminal is part of a A$42 million expansion and modernisation scheme and will be the largest international air terminal in the Southern Hemisphere. The building will be 680 ft. long, 260 ft. wide and three storeys high.
Setter being positioned
Designed and built by Maros Construction Co. Pty. Ltd. Sydney, the com- pany erecting the termin- al's precast concrete framework, the column- setter is built from tubular steel and does away with the need for four steel
wire guy ropes which
would otherwise be at- tached to each column. The absence of these steel hawsers means greater flexibility of the working site and more freedom of movement for the contractor's 80-ton mobile crane. Ten column setters are being used; they are bolted around the base of each column after it has been hauled upright and while it is still being supported by the mobile crane. Once the column-setter is locked into place, it forms a temporary base for the column. Turn-buckles built into the column-setter are then used to plumb the column until it is exactly vertical. The column can then be linked by beams to the rest of the terminal's structural frame.
Brookes Folding Shutter Doors
Made of steel or aluminium, they can be installed singly or in series, with manual or electric operation. In sizes up to 60 feet high by 200 feet or more wide.
Brookes Roller Shutters
In steel, aluminium or wood, in practically any size. They can be fitted singly or in series and operated manually or electrically.
Brookes also make nylon grilles, collapsible gates and rubber doors. Brookes products are made with quality and precision to meet customers' exact requirements.
For further information contact: Dept. F.E.A.
Head Office: Brookes & Co. (1925) Ltd., Princess Art Metalworks, 129 Stockport Road, Manchester 12.
Agents in Hong Kong
Messrs Shewan Tomes (Equipment) Ltd., Universal House, 10th Floor,
151, Des Voeux Road C., Hong Kong.
BROOKES
KEY NO, FEA
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Far East BUILDER, June 1968.
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