ARCHITECTURAL OFFICE
Assistant Director:
J. C. CHARTER, A.A.Dip., A.R.I.B.A.
GENERAL
2.01. The Architectural Office was responsible for the control of the Government building programme. Most of the work was designed and supervised by staff of the office, but it was necessary to engage private architects on a number of projects due to the size of the programme in hand.
2.02. Maintenance of Government-owned buildings and buildings leased by Government, numbering 1,778, was the responsibility of the Maintenance Section of this office.
2.03. All work was carried out on contract, and the total staff engaged on the design, supervision, maintenance, and associated clerical work, numbered 470. Expenditure on new works rose by 30% to $213,151,000 which was made up of $115,752,000 on resettlement and low cost housing, $60,000,000 on general projects undertaken by the office, $35,804,000 on Government building projects undertaken by private architects and $1,595,000 on works carried out from funds received as a result of the World Refugee Year. A further sum of $7,116,000 was spent on maintenance and alterations, and $1,645,000 on works carried out for other departments. A graph of expenditure for the last ten years is shown on page 6.
2.04. The professional staff of the Architectural Office comprises architects, quantity surveyors, building surveyors, structural engineers, electrical engineers and airconditioning engineers.
Architectural Divisions
2.05. Apart from the Senior Architect/Maintenance, all architects were engaged on new works and were in 2 divisions, each under a Chief Architect. Division I was sub-divided into 2 groups, each consisting of a Senior Architect, 4 architects, 4 assistant architects and normally 7 architectural assistants. Division II had 2 groups with similar complements, and a third and smaller group whose principal responsibility was the large resettlement and low cost housing programme. In addition to the architectural groups there were two Senior Architects who with supporting staff assumed responsibility for individual major projects.
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