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Shell roofing and central administrative block of the new wholesale vegetable market

It consists of a single-storey building with a three- storey tower block in the centre. To keep the number of pillars on the sales floor to a minimum, the greater part of the ground floor is covered by a shell roof incor- porating skylights over each bay.

A flat working roof, 30 ft, wide by 522 ft. long, runs along one side of the shell roof. This roof area will be used to assemble used vegetable containers. The market was described and illustrated in the December. 1964 Hong Kong Builder. Architects are Leigh and Orange,

SLIPFORMING IN SINGAPORE

A NEW 18-storey building to be erected in Battery Road, Singapore will be partly framed in structural steelwork and partly built in reinforced concrete, placed by the slipforming method.

The multi-million dollar structure is planned for com- pletion in 1967. It will contain offices, shops, a restaurant and conference rooms.

McAlister Development, Ltd. are carrying out the work. The firm was formed last year to develop the valu- able properties in Singapore owned by McAlister and Co., Ltd. The architects are Raglan Squire and Partners.

The tower will be linked to adjoining properties only at the rear. This will allow space at ground level for an open courtyard which is to contain an ornamental stair- case leading to the restaurant and a decorative pool with sculpture.

OCEAN TERMINAL GANGWAYS

FIRST of six specially designed passenger gangways for Hong Kong's Ocean Terminal is now on its way to the Colony. The gangways are one of the most expensive components for the new pier.

An unusual feature of these aluminium and steel units is their ability to telescope into themselves to a length of 42 ft. and extend to 57 ft. Basically, they are composed of two elongated frame boxes, with the frame attached to the pier being the larger of the two. When not in use, the gangways contract to their minimum length and are swung fore or aft along the bollard platform to be kept out of the way.

The exposed bollard platform is 3 ft. below the open- air public waving gallery that rings the three seaward sides of the terminal. The gangways open directly on to this gallery, enabling passengers to enter the air condi- tioned terminal building directly from the ships.

When in use, the gangways are swung at a right angle to the pier and extend to their full length by means of a hydraulic system controlled by individual electric

motors.

The gangways are permanently installed on the pier by a hinged assembly that enables them to be moved vertically through 44 degrees. This ensures that when

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the seaward end of the gangway is attached to a ship it will move upwards with the ship at high tide and down- wards at low tide.

FEWER PLANS APPROVED

EIGHTY plans for new buildings of all types in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories were approved by the Building Authority in May as compared with 88 plans in the preceding month and 92 in the corresponding month in 1964.

During the same month. 85 completed buildings were certified for occupation. Of these, 16 were tene- ment buildings, 24 were buildings for non-domestic pur- poses and 45 were for combined domestic and non- domestic purposes.

Cost of new building work in the Colony during the month was $79,999,953. Another $2,895,972 was spent on site formation work. New buildings of all types erected totalled 140, including seven factories and godowns, one office and shop. 125 houses and flats and seven other buildings.

DEVELOPERS MUST REGISTER

A BILL to control the activities of private housing de- velopers in Singapore will soon become law. It seeks to protect members of the public against unscrupulous speculators who take deposits and then delay develop- ment. It will also ensure that developers have sufficient funds to meet their proposed housing projects.

When the Bill is passed it will become necessary for housing estate developers to satisfy the Government that they have sufficient funds to meet their commitments, and to get themselves registered.

The Government will have power to investigate the books, accounts and transactions of developers, and to impose certain conditions in their licence to operate as developers.

FLYOVER WORK TO START

THE Construction of a flyover bridge of two 50-ft. spans near the Lai Chi Kok hospital in Kowloon, Hong Kong is expected to start next month. The flyover, part of a scheme to build a new road linking Castle Peak Road and Tai Po Road, is to enable traffic at the junction of the new road and Castle Peak Road to move smoothly with- out interfering with through traffic.

It will be built to a design similar to the existing one at Lung Cheung Road. To ensure that interruptions to traffic during construction are kept to a minimum, the deck spans for the bridge have been designed to incor- porate precast beams which can be placed in position by

a crane.

The new link road, work on which was started in April last year, will run for a distance of some 7,000 ft.

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