ARCHITECTURAL OFFICE
Government Architect:
C. R. J. DONNITHORNE, J.P. A.R.I.B.A,
W. E. LEVIE, D.A. (Edinburgh) A.R.I.B.A., (Acting)
Assistant Government Architect:
W. E. LEVIE, D.A. (Edinburgh) A.R.I.B.A., D. G. FARROW, A.R.I.B.A. (Acting)
GENERAL
3.01. The Architectural Office is responsible for the construction of all new Government buildings. By far the greater part of these are designed within the office and supervised by Architectural Office staff, although it is occasionally necessary to employ private architects to assist with this work.
3.02. Since July 1967 this Office has also assumed responsibility for the construction and maintenance of the majority of buildings required for the use of the British Armed Forces and their dependants within the Colony. A number of staff formerly employed by H.B.M. Ministry of Public Building and Works have transferred to the service of the Hong Kong Government in order to achieve continuity of administration.
3.03. The maintenance of buildings owned by, or leased to, Government is carried out by the Maintenance Division of the office and includes the routine management of Government-owned property.
3.04. Expenditure on new works, excluding furniture and equipment, amounted to $163,502,000. Of this sum $111,402,000 was spent on Resettlement and Low Cost Housing, $50,343,000 on other Government projects undertaken within the Office, and $1,757,000 on Government projects undertaken by private architects. The value of work ordered on the Maintenance Contracts amounted to $18,270,000 and $2,443,838 was spent on power and the cleaning of Government buildings under the control of this Office.
3.05. The staff of the Architectural Office, which in the year under review totalled 1048, supplies a fully comprehensive range of the skills required for the design and construction of buildings of all types and includes architects, structural engineers, quantity surveyors, building services engineers and outdoor supervisory staff. In addition the Office has its own clerical and accounting sections.
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