community facilities. Because of the physical restrictions Shau Kei Wan has developed as a long narrow strip with- out a definite centre. To offset this one block has been zoned to provide a central precinct.
PLAN FOR CONTAINER COMPLEX
To provide Hong Kong with the facilities to cater for inter-modular transport systems, The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd. has produced an outline plan for the creation of a 38-acre container ter- minal complex.
Seen as
as a three-phase development, the complex would be sited close to the company's Ocean Terminal on the Kowloon peninsular.
Initially an existing pier wharf would be adapted and a stacking yard of six acres laid out. This would meet
Kowloon waterfront showing proposed terminal site
immediate needs and would be followed by the reclama- tion of 17 acres of sea-bed to provide quay berths, open paved stacking areas and a two-storey freight station with additional roof-parking for lorry traffic.
The third phase envisages development of a logical extension of the initial reclamation to give a further 12 acres of paved stacking area and an ultimate total of 3,200 feet of quay wall berthing.
Of the possible traffic problems which might arise from siting the complex on the Kowloon waterfront, the company states that access to the terminal would be ex- cellent due to its proximity to Kowloon's major road-ways, which may be expected to improve. Outlying depots or consolidation areas, road and water served, are also said to be catered for in the overall plan, although the full potential for this possible requirement is not fully deve- loped in this study.
Details of the project have been submitted to the HK Government and the Urban Council. If approval to go ahead is given the scheme will involve a capital invest- ment of between HK$55 million and HK$70 million.
Consulting engineers to the Hong Kong and Kow- loon Wharf and Godown Co. are S.E. Faber and Son.
SOCIETY OF SOIL ENGINEERING
A SOUTHEAST Asian Society of Soil Engineering has been formed under the sponsorship of the Asian Institute of Technology. Bangkok.
Membership is open to those professionally engaged or otherwise interested in Soil Engineering, the annual subscription being US$5. Application forms are avail- able from the Secretary/Treasurer, c/o Asian Institute of Technology. P.O. Box 2754, Bangkok,
The general committee will comprise one represen- tative from each of the countries participating in the society, two representatives from the Institute, and co- opted members to a maximum of three. An interim gen- eral committee formed for 1967-68 includes: Dr. Za-Chieh Moh, Asian Institute of Technology, president: Dr. Robert D. Mackey, secretary treasurer; Prof. Sean Mackey, Hong Kong; Prof. Chin Fung Kee, Malaysia: Raymond
J. Frost, New Guinea: Syed Hasan Nasir, Pakistan; Jose Santos, Philippines: Desmond O'Riordan, South Vietnam; and Sirlak Chandraugn. Thailand.
The new society will assist in the development of na- tional societies and will arrange a regional conference and an annual lecture to be known as the Terzaghi Lecture.
WANCHAI RECLAMATION PROGRESS
MORE than 90 acres of new land will be added to the densely populated district of Wan Chai, Hong Kong, when a reclamation scheme now in progress is completed in 1971. Work on the seawalls which contain the first stages of the reclamation is now well advanced.
About 30 acres of the new area has been earmarked for high density residential development and 20 acres will be used for open space and recreational facilities. A multi-storey car park and other government installations such as a sewage screening plant will occupy six acres, while some 27 acres will be taken up by roads, including flyovers and ramps which form the approaches to the pro- posed cross-harbour tunnel.
The whole project will cost about HK$30 million. Expenditure on the first stage will be about $51⁄2 million and a further $5 million will be spent this year on the waterfront road and its connections to the tunnel.
Mr. J. J. Robson, Director of Engineering Develop- ment, who visited the site last month, said that top priority was being given to reclaiming land for the tunnel ap- proaches and the waterfront road which must be finished by mid-1970, and to building new ferry piers and works associated with them.
He said that Government had brought forward the date of certain site formation projects on Hong Kong Island which, as well as providing more spoil for the Wan Chai reclamation, would provide valuable formed building sites elsewhere.
HK$4 M. STAFF HOUSING PROJECT
Some HK$4 million is to spent over the next year on the provision of housing accommodation for employees of The Hongkong Electric Co. Ltd.
This expenditure will permit the completion by November 1968 of a 25-storey apartment block for 400 families. Sited at Fortress Hill Road, North Point, the block is the second phase of a programme to house almost 700 employees. The first phase, a multi-storey block for 200 families costing HK$2.8 million, was built last year on a site alongside the one now under construction. Ar- chitects for both these buildings are Leigh and Orange.
Mr. C. A. Britton, general manager of Hongkong Electric, said at a conference last month that the company was also considering plans for a housing complex near Aberdeen for employees working in the new Ap Lei Chau power station. Since 1952, he said, the company had spent more than HK$11.6 million on housing for its em- ployees and staff.
Mr. Britton also announced that by the autumn of 1968 new premises would be completed at Bowen Hill.
Model of Hong Kong Electric's Bowen Hill premises
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