Friday, December 7, 1973
BETTER LIGHTING FOR OLD ESTATES
Lighting in the central-corridor type public housing estates is
to get better. Six blocks in Taz Wan Shan Estate have just been rewired and
ceiling lights have been installed in every corridor bay and on every
staircase and entrance hall.
Hr. Ralph Husband, Assistant Director of Housing, said the improve-
ments were an integral part of a multi-million dollar project to create a
better environment for tenants.
This is just a start," he said. "In the next two or three years,
we will carry out improvements, including lighting improvements to all
276 blocks of the Mark III and onward central corridor type at a cost of
more than 3.5 million dollars."
Mr. Husband pointed out that the improvements did not run counter
to the energy conservation moves being urged by government.
"Public areas in this type of block have long been in need of better
lighting," he said. "The latest addition will merely bring them up to an
acceptably normal standard."
The earliest estate blocks have outside balcony access and the
need for imroved lighting is not so great. But in later blocks, access
to households is by a long internal corridor. The old standard of a ceiling
light in every third bay is not considered adequate.
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