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USE OF CONG
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PROPOSED CODE OF PRACTICE.
Chartered Surveyors Institution, the Institution of Structural Engi neers, the institution of Municipal. and County Engineers, the British perty was purchased from Mesara..
Standards Institution, And
bho A committee has been set up by Institution of Buildora were sach David Saesson & Co., Ltd., and is the Building Resarch Board of the invited to nominato be members. situated at the corner of Ice House Department of Sciuitifle and In- All these institutions willingly ad Street and Des Voeux Road, Con-hustrial Research to review pre espted the invitation, with the ox Aral Too House Street is the sent methods and regulations for the caption of the British Standarde
use of reinforced concrete in build Institution, which": "Wall Street" of Hong Kong. At the beginning of 1988 New
preferred to ing and to make recommendations assist later, in the preparation, York City had 83 structures of: 30
The National Commercial and for rules of practice embodying the if wanted, of a British Standard "more storeys" in height, and
The National Commercial and Savings Bank, Ltd., are planning best available technical information Speciacution based on the proposed nearly 500 exceeding 20 storeys Savings Bank, Ltd, Hong Kong, to contract a seven story re
and exporionçe:"?
cods. The committee consists of 14 In 1920 the number of buildings
The immediato occasion for the members, and the Director of Build above the 30-storey mark was 40, whose present premises is at 144-180 inforced concrete building on the
eite with a frontage of 53 feet by appointment of the Reinforced Con- ing Research, Dr. R. E. Stradling, in the following year it had in Des Voeux Road, Central, a valu, Top fast. Maasra. Palmer and Turoreto Structures Caminition was la
is acting as executive officer to it creased to 70, and on January 1,able property of their own, havaner, the well-known Architect, is in request from the London County
No Special Tands. 1941, these were 80: structures in found 10 100 maall, for their grow charge of the construction. The Council. The Council wrote to the
ing business, and have recently chew building will not only be a Department referring to the actions of the committee are limited moat beautiful structure but will tivities of the Advisory Committee rules of practice based on existing to the drawing up of technical also be most modern in every report on any necessary amend special funds are available for re- appointed by them to consider and knowledge and experience No respect.
ments of the London Bullding Act, sorch, and the committee is in no 1930, This Advisory Committen, it was stated, was impressed with the concerned with the framing draft code practice, drawn up administrative action. It is hoped, of legal regulations or with other by the Steel Structures Research, however, that the code of practice, Committee, for the use of structural when drafted by the committed, will steel in building, and considered be of assistance not only to the. that its work would be "greatly London County Council, but also. facilitated if it could be furnished to the Ministry of Health and other with a similar code for the use of building authorities in any actions. reinforced concrete,
that class,
As was the case a year ago, the Empire State Building with its 86 storeys beads the list, rising to #height of 1,250ft, above the road. Two years ago the 7-storey Chrys lor Building at 1,046ft, was at the top of the list, and the year before the Woolworth Building, the 58 storeys of which rise 7671t, into the air, was the tallest structure in the world except the Eiffel Tower. That tower has, however, bean aurpassed by the Bank of Manhattan. 70 storeys, and 097ft.; the Cities Service 00 storeys and 030ft, the Chryslor and the Em- pire State buildings. In 1907: the 45-storey Singer Building, which has a height of 612ft., dominated the New York skyline, but was quickly followed by the Metropov htan Life Building with 48 storeys andy66716. Now, the Binger Build jag has only the seventeenth place on the roll and the Motpopolitan Life Building ranka tenth.
Ceiling Heights.
Some interesting comparisons, are found if the buildings are arranged in the order of their actual height in feet Through variations in ceiling heights and the styles of architecture used at the top of buildings, the 4-storey New York Life Building, rising to a bright uf 619ft is taller by 3ft. than the RCA-Victor Buikling, which has nino storeys. mora. Similarly the Metropolitan Life Building, with 40 storeys and a height of 657ft., occupies the tenth place in the list, while the 48-storey Nelson Tower is twenty-third, its height being only 500ft,
quired a. most valuable site in the centre of the banking and business
Information. Bureau:
To will be realized that the fanc
they may consider it desirable: to take.
It may be mentioned that the In view of this request, and ap- London County Council, on the preciating also the national need recommendation of their Advisory for authoritative up-to-date in Council and of their Building Act formation on the design and con- Committee, have now approved" 1. struction of buildings wholly or code of practice for the use of partly of reforced concrete, the structural steel and other materinia Department of Scientific and In-in building, as the basis of oon dustrial Research docidad to set-upideration of application under A committee of the Building Re Section 58 of the London Building search. Board forthwith, under the Act, 1980 for release from the pro chairmanship of Sir George Hum visions of the third schedule of the phreys, chairman of the Board.Aet." This code is based on the Another member of the board, Mr. recommendations of the Steal
B. L. Hurst, was also appointed on Structures Research Committee.
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The ground floor will be occupied be the most modern offices, in Hong by the Bank, It will have two Kong.
Manager's offices, a spacious lobby To the left of this new building: and banking hall and office space.is the Bank of East Asia, at the The Mazzanine floor which will also back is the Hong Kong Stock Ex be occupied by the Bank will con- change, across the Des Voeux Road sist of office space, a Board room, is the Netherlands India Commer- And Safe Deposit Vault The cial Bank and aerom the Ice House; Safe Deposit Vault, alto in the Street in the Hong Kong Share- Mazzanine foor, will be a very brokers Association and next to it strong one and at the same time is the Bank of Canton, The Ameri free from dampness, which is a very can Express Co., and the Hong important and valuable feature, be- Kong & Shanghai Banking Cor cause deeds and other waitten, doru poration. Certainly it is difficult ments will not be damaged by to find a mors ideal location for moisture
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ECONOMICAL AND CHEAPER IN OPERATION.
The Brat hattery in Engle of coke ovens heated by blast-1
núca gas is now in operation"
It is hoped that the new building will be ready for occupation some time next Easter
cold blast furnace gas, and was designed and erected by the Wood all-Duckham Vertical Retort and Oven Construction Company.
By heating the coke ovens. this way the whole of the
Bagag made in tben is rendered avail able for sa the open-hearth
Use Green Island Cement
for
Constructural Work of
Every Description.
HOW GREEN ISLAND CEMENT IS MADE
Green Island Cement is manufactured from hard limestone and clay. It is necessary that these materials should be finely ground in order that they may come into intimate contact
with "one another in the burning process.
The finely pulverised materials are mixed in a certain definite proportion, foughly one part of clay to three of limestone, and are fed to the Rotary Kilns.
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In these kilns they meet the hot gases and flames generated by pulverised coal blown in at-the-other-end of the kilns, and after various chemical actions have taken place, they combine to form Portland Cement Clinker.
The Clinker is ground down with a small percentage of gypsum to regulate the setting time, and Green Island Portland Cement is thus produced.
Although sounding so simple, in reality the process is an intricate combination of mechanical, physical and chemical operatione, aceding great skill and care. Nothing but constant and accurate supervision will yield the resulta so well-known with Green Island Cement, namely, strength, uniformity and reliability,
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crushed cost a day. It consists of with a mav
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