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Main terminal building at Kai Tak airport
similar size has been built in Kowloon.
A revised standard plan for fire or ambulance stations has now been adopted. The buildings are 11 storeys high with 52 quarters over a two-bay appliance room. Seven of this type
are now under construction or are being planned.
An open prison for 1,000 inmates with adjacent staff accommodation is being built at Tong Fuk on Lantau and a further one is being planned near Sha Tau Kok for the Prisons Department.
A boys training centre was also
completed at Cape Collinson in 1962/1963, and alterations have been made at Tai Lam Chung, in the New Territories, to form a special prison for drug addicts.
Private Architects
Private architects have been re- sponsible over the last few years for many building projects, including magistracies, medical department buildings, staff quarters, schools, workshops and an aircraft mainten- ance depot.
One of the most important projects carried out for the Government by private architects has been the design and construction of the new airport building.
The terminal airport was opened in the financial year 1962/63 having cost over HK$14 million. The in- creasing use of jet travel and speed and weight of aircraft had previouly made the existing runway obsolescent and the replacement of the existing runway and airport buildings with a new terminal became inevitable.
The number of passengers using Hong Kong Airport in 1951 was 75,000. By 1961 the number of pas- sengers handled was 478,000. Since 1963 a capacity for handing 550 passengers an hour in the new seven- storey terminal has existed.
The terminal is built with many modern devices for efficient handling of passengers including closed circuit T.V. for making flight announcements.
Maintenance Division
With the increase in the number of public buildings constructed there has been a subsequent increase in the work of the Maintenance Division of the Architectural Office.
Although old buildings are being gradually replaced the steady increase in the number of Government build- ings has increased expenditure on maintenance from HK$5 million in 1958/59 to $7.2 million in 1964/65.
WARMEST
GREETINGS
to Delegates
to the
6th IFAWPCA CONVENTION
from the
Society of Builders
8th Floor,
25, Des Voeux Road C., Hong Kong.
T.S. WONG & CO., LTD.
Room 802, No. 25, Des Voeux Rd., C.
WELCOME
Delegates
to the
6th IFAWPCA Convention
in
Hong Kong
Far East Architect & Builder November, 1965