4.06
The Quantity Surveying and Building Services Branches also 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 $24,062,000 was started on 25 new projects and work costing $18,617,000 was completed on 29 schools. Repair and maintenance work estimated at $8,251,000 was started on some 264 schools and was completed at a cost of $5,493,000 on 195 schools. Advice was given on one interest-free loan, amounting to some $4,567,000, to a school.
4.07
Included in the technical services within the Office Headquarters is a Project Estimate and Co-ordination section. This section, headed by a Chief Quantity Surveyor, is a multi-discipline unit with the function of centralising, co-ordinating and constantly reviewing information on all matters relating to cost and expenditure on the projects in hand or under consideration.
4.08
The Office was represented by senior staff on the following public or inter-departmental committees or boards:
Committee Representative(s) Urban Council Select Committees:Recreation and Amenities Planning and Development Principal Government Architect
Principal Government Architect Housing Society Committees:
Executive Committee
Building Sub-Committee Urban Renewal Sub-Committee Principal Government Architect
Principal Government Architect
Principal Government Architect University and Polytechnic Grants Committee Department of Civil Aviation Programme Working Party
Department of Civil Aviation Programme Sub-Committee Defence Works Agreement Programme Sub-Committee Government Architect/Administration Victoria Barracks Reprovisioning Sub-Committee (Adviser)
Government Architect/Administration (Joint Chairman) R.A.F. Kai Tak Reprovisioning Sub-Committee Government Architect/Administration
Government Maintenance Surveyor
Chief Architect, Division IV
Government Architect/Administration
Government Architect/Administration
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