2.
Repairs to buildings and re-equipment of existing laboratories.
Buildings:
Arts and Administrative
Buildings.
.£15,000
Science..
Medical.
Engineering..
Libraries.
Hostels and Houses
(repair only)..
...£5,000 ...£8,000
..£ 5,000 ...£3,000
£10,000
£46,000
Provision for new Hostels and houses, about £60,000, is made in the lump sum estimate of £60,000 to £100,000 below.
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Re-equipment of Laboratories:
Chemistry, Physics,
Botany, Zoology..
£35,000
.£25,000
£10,000
£70,000
Medical...
Engineering.....
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/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 expenditure 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 thiswe have set down a general sum, based on the estimates of the West Indies Committee, of £1 million pounds to be spent over a period of betwee 7and10 years. This would provide for the Arts and Administration accommodation, additional Science laboratories, new Medical and Engineering buildings, new Halls of Residence, Students' Union, and for staff 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, will have to be very carefully sited. A great deal of cutting and filling will be necessary and the cost of heavy retaining walls will be a considerable charge. One, probably two, streams will have to be diverted. In the present uncertainty we have set down a large total cost. But if the 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 site might be put at about £600,000. This sum ought to pajė 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 by the end of ten years after the resumption of University work and an increase of residences for students and members of the staff, may be reckoned at between £730,000 and £1,130,000)
Staff.
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The salary scles of the Irvine Committee have been adopted as a basis for an estimate under this head. A further proposal of that Committee commends itself very strongly to us; that by which His Majesty's Government is asked, in place of making a grant to pay the salaries of all professors, to endow certain "basic professorships", to give the University a measure of protection against the not infrequent sudden fluctuations in
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