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BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE
Assistant Director,
R. FAIRBAIRN, F.R.I.C.S., M.R.S.H.
Chief Building Surveyors,
P. V. SHAWE, F.R.I.C.S., M.R.S.H. G. THOMSON, A.R.I.B.A.
Assistant Chief Building Surveyors, E. H. ROWLEY, A.R.I.C.S.
R. A. C. BROWN, A.R.I.C.S., A.A.L.P.A. R. A. WATTERS, A.R.I.C.S.
G. L. LowMAN, A.R.I.C.S.
J. G. STEAN, A.R.I.C.S.
Senior Structural Engineer,
Au Sik-ling, B.Sc., A.M.I.Struct.E., M.R.S.H.
98. The volume of building works undertaken in the Colony continued at a high level; the capital expenditure on private building works being approximately $264,000,000, some $11,000,000 less than the figure for 1959-60. However, with the increased sale of Crown land there was every indication that capital expenditure in private buildings was increasing.
99. The comprehensive provisions of the revised and new regulations made under the Buildings Ordinance, 1955, which came into effect on the 1st January, 1960, and the Code of Practice published in December 1959, in connexion with the means of escape and allied requirements, inevitably added to the amount and complexity of the work of this office. The revision of the scale of fees for permits to erect balconies and canopies over Crown Land and public streets resulted in the issue of Demand Notes for over $5,600,000 in this, the first full year of operation.
100. Of 577 new buildings completed, 407 were for domestic use.
Domestic Buildings
101. All types of domestic buildings continued to be in great demand with an increase in the number of higher grade European type flats and hotels. The completion of three large hotels in Tsim Sha Tsui provided much needed accommodation for tourists, which will be further increased when two large hotels under construction in the Central area of Hong Kong are completed. The Housing Society completed two large projects at Kai Tak and Kwun Tong and were engaged on two larger projects at Shau Kei Wan and Aberdeen,
Non-domestic Buildings
102. In the business centres of Hong Kong and Kowloon, the re-development of sites by the erection of multi-storey composite buildings
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