HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY FEZAV
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Saturday, 2nd October 1975
HOUSING AUTHROTTY SPENDS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING ITS ESTATES
The Housing Authority has budgeted to spend $82 million this financial
year on maintaining its older estates and making them more attractive.
The Maintenance Section will carry out 190,000 jobs this year, ranging
in size and complexity from clearing blocked drains to renovating 1,000 toilets
or fitting 18,000 fluorescent in estate corridors.
One area receiving a great deal of attention is environmental
improvements through such schemes as planting trees and flowers in gardens or
installing swings and slides or sitting out areas.
The Authority's Chief Maintenance Surveyor, Mr Raymond Bates, said
one of the most costly jobs was repainting with 20 contracts let this year
costing $12.8 million. All estates are completely repainted every four years and
the Maintenance Section is currently looking into ways to improve repainting.
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"This year we are buying equipment to tell us how many coats of paint
have been applied to a surface over the years and the thickness of each coat,
Mr Bates said. Negotiations were also going on with manufacturers to see whether
a paint can be produced to the Authority's specification which would overcome the
problem of paintwork deteriorating through fungus growth.
Three more lifts have been installed at Tung Tau Estate and work is
to begin early next year on putting in four extra lifts at Lam Tin Estate and
three at Shek Lei. The possibility of speeding up some lifts is being investigated.
Last month, 788 lifts were inspected.
were in progress.
While repairs and improvements to 120
/2......