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Far East

ARCHITECT & BUILDER

The oldest trade journal in the Far East

EDITOR: A. G. BARNETT

APRIL 1965

news review

Contents

49

News Review

35

World News

41

Tower Block for Civil Servants

47

Pacific House, Hong Kong

Factory Made Home

51-

Flats on Triangular Site, Macau

52

Presidential Address, HK Society of Architects

55

Students Centre, Philippines University..

56

Chaos or Regional Planning, by

Prof. W.G. Gregory

58

Police HQ in Perak Jungle

60

Letters

65

About People

67

Civil Engineering Section

HK Power Station

69

Model Tests Aid Reclamation

73

New Materials and Equipment

77

New Contractors' Plant

81

Contracts Awarded

85

Building Plans Approved

87

Index to Advertisers

103

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Cover picture: The Tower crane, a feature of almost all European construction sites, is gaining popularity in South East Asia even in Hong Kong where precast construction has yet to be used in any volume. On this site at Kennedy Road, Hong Kong, a climbing unit is used to hoist sand and reinforcing rods to the upper floors of a new apartment block.

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Far East Architect & Builder April, 1965

A WORLD ORGANISATION

HONG KONG contractors are making the first positive moves towards the establishment of a World Organisa- tion of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors.

Members of the Colony's Society of Builders, hosts for the November conference of the International Federation of Asian and Western Pacific Contractors' Association, are travelling abroad to drum up interest in the project. On May 8, Mr. Paul Y. Tso, president of IFAWPC, will fly to New York to meet Mr. Lester C. Rogers, of Chicago, and Mr. Gonzalo Gout, of Mexico, respectively vice president and secretary general of the Inter-American Federation of The Construction Industry.

With the same aims, a three-man party from the Society, led by Mr. Luk Ping Sheung, secretary general of IFAWPC, is now on a round trip to Seoul, Tokyo and Taipei, visiting member associations. The party will return next month.

At last year's IFAWPCA convention a World Federa- tion Committee was set up under the chairmanship of Mr. Henry Wilckens, of Adelaide. Mr. Wilckens has been in correspondence with contractors' associations in Europe and North and South America, and observers from these associations will be invited to attend this year's convention.

CONVENTION PROGRAMME

DETAILS of the programme for this Sixth Annual IFAWPCA Convention have now been settled. The convention will be held in Hong Kong from November 1 to 6, followed by a sight-seeing tour of Macau on Sunday, November 7. Headquarters will be the Hong Kong Hilton, where an information booth will be set up for the duration of the convention.

It is expected that more than 500 contractors from member associations in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Viet- nam, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Philippines, New Zea- land and Australia will attend.

Fee for the convention is US$40 per person. The programme is as follows

Nov. 1. 9 a.m. Executive board meeting; 2.30 p.m. Opening ceremony, City Hall 7.30 p.m. Fellowship din- ner, Hilton (Host Ho Iu Kwong, president. The Build- ing Contractors' Association, Hong Kong,)

Nov. 2. 10 a.m. First general assembly; 2.30 p.m. Committee meeting; 2 p.m. Visit to film studio: 9 p.m. Chinese entertainment, City Hall.

Nov. 3. 10 a.m. Committee meetings; 12.30 p.m. Luncheon and fashion show, Hilton; 2.30 p.m. Commit- tee meetings: 7.30 p.m. Dinner (Hosts The Society of Builders).

Nov. 4. 10 a.m. Technical sessions, City Hall: 2 p.m. Sight-seeing tour, Hong Kong Island: 7 p.m. Com- mittee chairmen's meeting.

Nov. 5. 9 a.m. Sight-seeing tour of New Territories; 9 a.m. Golf tournament: 12..30 p.m. Lunch at Carlton and Shatin Heights Hotels; 7 p.m. Dinner at Aberdeen floating restaurant.

Nov. 6. 10 a.m. General assembly, Hilton; 7.30 p.m. Convention Ball (Host Paul Y. Tso).

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