Fire Services Buildings
2.29. At North Point an eleven-storey building was completed which will house the Fire Services Departmental Headquarters and will provide workshop and storage facilities and space for a Public Works Department Laboratory. Three fire stations at Shau Kei Wan, Kennedy Town and Ngau Chi Wan were completed during the year and also two ambulance depots, one on Hong Kong Island and one in Ma Tau Chung, Kowloon. Standard designs for the fire stations and ambulance depots were used. Each building provides a two-bay operational station at ground and mezzanine floor levels with nine upper floors containing married quarters for four officers and 48 rank and file and includes one floor which is designed for use as an open-sided play area.
2.30. Five additional quarters for Eastern Fire Station, providing accommodation for duty officers on the Station and also five additional bachelor quarters at Central Fire Station were under construction.
2.31. Construction of the Fire Services Training School, Fire Headquarters and Ambulance Depot at Shek Kong in the New Territories was well advanced. This project will provide training facilities for 160 recruits, including classrooms, garages for 10 training vehicles, 6 drill towers, barrack accommodation for the trainees and married quarters for officers and other ranks.
2.32. Construction of two further standard eleven-storey fire stations was in hand at Hung Hom in Kowloon and at Tai Po in the New Territories.
General Government Buildings
2.33. Buildings at Caroline Hill, providing depots, workshops and offices for the Public Works Department and for the Civil Aid Services Headquarters were completed. These new buildings comprise a 12-storey block, including basement, the upper floors of which provide offices and workshops for the Electrical and Mechanical Office, the basement accommodating the Civil Aid Services Zone Headquarters. This building is linked by a single storey wing containing stores and workshops to a 7-storey block which provides offices and training facilities for the Civil Aid Services. Provision has also been made for a Roads and Drainage depot. These buildings complete the development of the site.
2.34. Site formation was completed at the southern end of the former Murray Barracks area for the construction of a 27-storey building.
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