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Sketch showing walkway complex

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into as many as 12 suites per floor. The smallest rentable site will be about 1,000 sq. ft.

A central grid system of air-conditioning and lighting will be installed and the building will be serviced by 26 high speed lifts.

Consultants on the project include: Mitchell, McFarlane & Partners, structural engineers; Lang- don Every & Seah, quantity surveyors; and J. Roger Preston & Partners, mechanical and elec- trical engineers. Mr. Don Ashton has been engaged to design and decorate the public areas.

Container berth completed

The first berth of the Port of Singapore's East Lagoon container complex was handed over recent- ly, three months ahead of schedule, by the con- struction consortium of Taylor Woodrow Interna- tional Ltd., London and Dillingham Overseas Corp., Honolulu.

The berth, a 213m long feeder wharf, was com- pleted 141⁄2 months after the driving of the first of the 1,162 piles on which it is supported. Providing berthing in 9.7m of water at low tide, the 91m wide structure will be used for feeder services com- plimentary to the operation of the main container wharves, which are due for final completion in late 1972.

Along the face of the wharf are 50 ton cast steel bollards.

Eventually an additional 899m of berthing for large container ships of up to 289m in length will be provided, together with a total additional deck area of 116,130 sq.m for the storage and handling of containers.

Reinforced concrete piles, 457 mm sq. and ranging in length from 7.6m to 22.8m, are used to support the wharf. For the deck, which covers an area of 195,000 sq. ft., a total of 865 beams, each weighing 7.6 ton, and 2,970 deck planks, all of pre- cast prestressed concrete, were utilised. Piles and precast units are manufactured on site.

Milestone in HK public housing

The fendering system consists of 533mm and 457mm outside diameter cylindrical rubber fend- ers, suspended diagonally and vertically by high tensile steel chains shackled to the wharf structure.

The 500th resettlement block to be completed by Hong Kong's public works department is also the first of a new design, known as Mark VI.

Accommodation in the block, handed over recently, brings to 1,200,000 the number of people now living in the 23 resettlement estates built by Government since the resettlement housing pro- gramme began in 1953. The entire cost of the pro- gramme, some HK$750 million, has been met from public funds.

Of necessity, resettlement accommodation has been very basic, providing little more than shelter, but designs have shown a continued improvement over the years and this latest Mark VI type gives a living space of 35 sq. ft. per adult. It is a 16-storey

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Mark VI resettlement block

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block, served by lifts and provided with individual balconies, toilets, electricity and water supplies.

The 500th block is at Lam Tin estate, Kwun Tong where, by 1972, there will be 23 domestic blocks, nine estate schools, nine restaurants and

Far East BUILDER, December 1970