4.06. The Quantity Surveying Division and Building Services Division advise the Director of Education on drawings, specifications, contract documents, tenders, final accounts, building services installations and maintenance work for grant-in-aid and subsidized schools; site inspections of work in progress are also made. Work estimated at $52,600,000 was started on 68 new projects and work costing $14,200,000 was completed on 47 schools. Repair and maintenance work estimated at $1,600,000 started on 171 schools and was completed at a cost of $1,130,000 on 137 schools. Advice was given to the Finance Branch on costings for interest-free loans to 5 schools, amounting to some $3,700,000.
4.07. The office was represented by senior staff on the following public or inter-departmental committees or boards:
Committee Representative(s) Authorized Architects Examination Board Principal Government Architect (Chairman) Contractors' Disciplinary Board Government Structural Engineer Schedules of Accommodation Vetting Committee Government Quantity Surveyor Leased Office Accommodation Committee Government Architect (Chairman) Air-conditioning Committee Government Building Services Engineer Urban Council Air-conditioning Select Committee Government Building Services Engineer (Chairman) Advisory Committee for the Department of Electrical Engineering, Hong Kong Technical College Government Building Services Engineer Standing Committee for the Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works for use in Hong Kong Government Quantity Surveyor (Chairman) Buildings (Alterations, Additions and Improvements) Committee Government Maintenance Surveyor Architects' Disciplinary Board Chief Architect, Division I Building Trades Industrial Committee of the Industrial Training Advisory Committee Chief Architect, Division IChief Architect, Division II Committee on Design Requirements for Handicapped People of the Polytechnic Planning Committee Chief Architect, Division II Sites and Buildings Sub-committee Chief Architect, Division III Resettlement Programme Committee Chief Architect, Division III Government Low Cost Housing Programme Committee
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