Australian-made Cranes Ordered
for World Trade Centre
AN order worth A$2 mil- lion has been placed with Favelle Industries Pty. Ltd., Sydney, for the sup- ply of eight tower cranes which are to be used on the construction of the World Trade Centre in New York.
Rising to 1,500 ft. the World Trade Centre will be the tallest building in the world. Its 110-storey twin towers will be 150 ft. taller than the Empire State Building.
Favelle claim that the cranes will be the fastest and have a greater lifting capacity than any yet in- stalled on a building site, They will lift 25 tons on a single line and 50 tons on two lines: lifting speed will be 70 ft. a minute and the speed ranged 1,000 to one. The first crane is due for delivery in New York this month.
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V250 Unimyna short projection syphonic W.C.
Swedish Architects Design Hospital in Libya
ONE of the largest and best-equipped hospitals to be built in Africa, a 1,287-bed unit for Tripolis, Libya, has been designed by two Stockholm architects, G. Birch- Lindgren and Hilkka Vene, in collaboration with the Swedish consulting firm Uniconsult. The latter firm
won the first prize in a competition arranged by the Libyan Government in 1965.
The Tripolis hospital, the future functions of which as a training centre have been planned in detail, includes an out-patient "screening station". This station makes it possible to attend to less complicated cases immediately.
The building costs are estimated at over US$60 million, excluding equipment.
A similar hospital is being designed for Benghazi, Libya. Uniconsult has further been appointed to work out contract documents for a 1,040-bed regional hos- pital in Kuwait, plus apartments for 60 doctors and 350 nurses. With the Lebanese Government, Uniconsult has signed a contract for a 500-bed military hospital in Beirut, in cooperation with ACE, a local architectural and civil engineering firm.
Persian Gulf Harbour Contract for British Firm
A CONTRACT worth £9,368,000 has been won by the London firm, Richard Costain (Civil Engineering) Ltd. for the construction of a deep water harbour in the Per- sian Gulf at Dubai.
The harbour will consist of two breakwaters with a core of quarry run rock protected by larger sizes and concrete blocks, new quays, dredging and land reclama- tion on which transit sheds will be built. Two million cu. yd. of rock will be quarried, 11⁄2 million cu. yd. of filling material placed and 350,000 cu, yd. of material dredged. The quays, up to 2,300 ft. long, will be formed behind sheet piling and capped with concrete.
The four transit sheds will be 400 ft. by 200 ft. in plan and constructed of light steel framework with asbestos cladding. The contract also includes the construction of roads and ancillary services.
A loan of about £6.5 million is being made available by Lloyds Bank, with the backing of the Exports Credits Guarantee Department. Consulting engineers are Sir William Halcrow and Partners.
V200
Unisyla double trap syphonic W.C.
V1001S Oriana bidet
V4100PC
Dovedale pedestal washbasin
V4161H
Armitex wall hung washbasin
Armitage manufacture a wide range of top quality fixtures and fittings for use in homes, hotels, public and industrial buildings. Installations in many parts of the world testify to the high quality and reliability of Armitage products. In addition to the vitreous china fixtures illustrated above, the Armitage Group also manufactures products in ceramic glazed fireclay and Perspex plus fittings for sanitary fixtures.
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HONG KONG
Dreyer & Co. P.O. Box 473, 201-204 Alexandra House, Hong Kong. SINGAPORE
James Warren & Co. Ltd., P.O. Box 812. Union Buildings, Collyer Quay, Singapore,
MALAYSIA
James Warren & Co. Ltd., P.O. Box 288, 16 Jalan Chan Sow Lin, Kuala Lumpur. and branches at Penang and Ipoh. THAILAND
Jardine Waugh Ltd., P.O. Box 40, 226 Nares Road, Bangkok. PHILIPPINES
Fertraders, R-405 A.1.U. Building, 239 Juan Luna Street, Manila.
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