4.06 The Quantity Surveying and Building Services Branches 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, and site inspections are made. Work estimated at $55,300,000 was started on 50 new projects and work costing $19,000,000 was completed on 43 schools. Repair and maintenance work estimated at $3,400,000 was started on some 185 schools and was completed at a cost of $3,000,000 on 181 schools. Advice was given on interest-free loans, amounting to some $12,500,000, to 7 schools.
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) Resettlement Programme Committee Government Structural Engineer Government Low Cost Housing Programme Committee Principal Government Architect (Chairman)Chief Architect, Division III (Secretary) Architects Registration Committee Principal Government Architect (Chairman)
Chief Architect, Division III (Secretary) University Grants Committee Principal Government Architect Leased Office Accommodation Committee Principal Government Architect (Advisor) Tsuen Wan/Kwai Chung Management Committee Government Architect/Administration Schedules of Accommodation Vetting Committee Government Building Services Engineer Committee on Design Requirements for Handicapped People Government Architect/Administration Sites and Buildings Sub-Committee of the Polytechnic Planning Committee Government Architect/General (Chairman) Building Trades Industrial Committee of the Industrial Training Advisory Committee Government Architect/General (Chairman) Contractors' Disciplinary Board Government Architect/General
Government Quantity Surveyor Standing Committee on Architectural and Civil Engineering Conditions of Contract Government Quantity Surveyor
Chief Architect, Division I
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