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with stages and dance floor areas. A third circular dance floor area, can- tilevered out above a single column ic provided outside.

Below this open dance area is a broadcasting room, 61 ft. wide, 69 ft. long and 35 ft. high, connected to and of similar design to the main terminal building.

Alongside the main public building on the concourse floor is a 288 ft. by 21ft. ceremonial stand. On the right side of the terminal adjoining it will be a first aid room and prayer hall, ranged beside a refuelling depot, a special hangar and parking apron for private and chartered aircraft, and bays for servicing and engineer- ing facilities.

In front of the terminal is a full length covered porch for arriving cars. The car park outside can ac- commodate more than 450 vehicles.

The whole of the terminal building will have a floor covering of tiles made from Malaysian rubber by Pirelli of France. Locally grown timber will be used for the wall panelling.

12,000 ft. Runway

The new airport and terminal, sited at Subang 12 miles west of Kuala Lumpur, is scheduled to be ready for operation in two months. It will have cost a total of about M$50 million.

It boasts a 12,000 ft. runway about double the length of the pre- sent airport runway and longer than those of Hong Kong's Kai Tak (8,300 ft.) and Singapore's 9,000 ft. It also has a 135 ft. high traffic con- trol tower with separate installations beyond this to handle air freight.

High intensity approach, runway and threshold lighting will cost about M$997,500 and is being supplied by General Electric Co. (Malaya) Ltd. in conjunction with G.E.C. (Over- seas Services) Ltd., London.

Consultants and Contractors

Terminal Building

Architects: Booty Edwards and

Partners

Structural Engineers. Steen, Sehested

and Partners

Electrical Engineers: Preece Cardew

and Rider

Mechanical Engineers: Thomas Ander-

son and Partners

Sound Engineers: N.J. Pappas

Quantity Surveyors: Frank and Varge-

son

Contractors: Loke Hong Kee

Site superintendent: Ronald R. Pratt

Airport Runway Contract

Designer: Public Works Department, Ministry of Works, Posts and Tele- communications (The Director of P.W.D.)

Quantity Surveyors : Crisp, Kavanagh

and Partners Contractors: Gammon (Malaya) Ltd. in conjunction with Messrs. Pomeroy and Messrs. Hawaiian Dredging. Sub-Contractors: asphalt paving

Limmer & Trinidad Lake Asphalt Co.; airfield lighting General Electric

Co.

Far East Architect & Builder June, 1965

One of the two 50 ft. ramps leading to the mezzanine floor

Top view of the line of shells covering the passenger ramp

Close-up of the first of the hyperbolic paraboloids over the ramp

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