5. The sum stated below for repairs are hardly more than guesses based on the cost of typhoon-damage repairs before the war:-
Repairs to buildings and re-equipment of existing laboratories.
Buildings:
Arts and Administrative
Buildings.
Science.
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Engineering..
.£15,000
.£5,000
Medical.
.£8,000
£ 5,000
..£ 3,000
Hostels and Houses
.£10,000 £46,000
Libraries.
(repair only).
Provision for new Hostels and houses, about £60,000, is made in the lump sum estimate of £60,000 to £100,000 below.
Re-equipment of Laboratories:
Chemistry, Physics, Botany, Zoology Medical.. Engineering...
.£35,000
.£25,000
£10,000
£70,000
of this amount probably about £65,000 would be required whatever the organisation for Higher Education is to be. It may well be that £130,000, therefore, would be required even if the proposal were that the University should be replaced by institutions of lower status serving only local needs.
By great good fortune the libraries are nearly intact and no large capital cxpenditure on books is called for.
New Buildings for a developed University.
The plan of the 1940 Committee demands a rebuilding of a great part of the existing University and for this we have set down a general sun, based on the estimates of the West Indies Committee, of £1 million pounds to be spent over a period of between 7 and 10 years. This would provide for the Arts and Administration accommodation, additional Science .. laboratories, new Medical and Engineering buildings,
1 Students Union, and for staff new Halls of Residence, quarters, that is to say, in all, for well over two thirds of the University's accommodation. The new buildings will have to be of four floors and therefore, on the steep hillside,
A great deal of will have to be very carefully sited. cutting and filling will be necessary and the cost of heavy
One, probably retaining walls will be a considerable charge.
In the present two, streams will have to be diverted. uncertainty we have set down a large total cost. estimate is based on the pre-war cost of the Science building completed in 1941, and provision made for a seventy-five per cent increase in the average cost of building in the period between the third and the tenth year after the re-opening of the University, the total cost of building and work on the
This sum ought to site might be put at about £600,000.
But if the
provide fully twice the present teaching and residential accommodation.
The non-recurring grant for repairs of buildings, for re- equipping laboratories and for replacements of existing
/buildings