Department and Hong Kong's building contractors had built 453 multi-storey blocks containing 203,487 rooms. The largest estate managed by the Resettlement Department is now Tsz Wan Shan which has a population of 120,000. Tsz Wan Shan, which was started in 1962 and should be finished next year, will eventually house 170,000 people, while two other estates further east beyond Kwun Tong will have populations of 130,000 and 104,000 respectively.
The Resettlement Department now manages 22 estates and 15 cottage areas providing accommo- dation for nearly 1.1 million people, about 26 per cent of the colony's population.
Prestressed floor planks for Singapore hotel
An order worth $$250,000 for prestressed con- crete floor planks has been placed with Hume Industries (FE) Ltd. by Lim Kah Ngam (S) Ltd. for the Ming Court hotel project in Singapore.
The planks, the first to be incorporated in hotel construction in Singapore, are cast to the architect's specification at the firm's Bukit Timah factory.
Floor planks being positioned at Ming Court
They are of inverted U-shape, allowing air-condi- tioning and cables to be concealed within the hollow ducts.
Some 400 units are being supplied to Ming Court to span five floors of the 15-storey hotel. Architects for the S$17.5 million project are Kum- pulan Architect.
US$15 million development programme approved by Institute of Technology
than US$12 million of the development goal is ear- marked for continued expansion of AIT's regular degree programme.
Since its inception in 1959 as the SEATO Gra- duate School of Engineering, the AIT has graduated 227 engineering students from seven Asian coun- tries.
A key development in the projected expansion plans is the introduction of a doctorate course in civil engineering in 1971 and the introduction of masters degrees in mechanical engineering in 1972 and a similar level degree in electrical engineering in 1973.
Probably the most important addition to the physical setup on the new AIT campus to be oc- cupied by 1971 is a special regional technological library, which would go beyond the academic pro- gramme needs of AIT. It will include data-gathering by satellite transmission, but is basically designed to serve individual universities and research organisa- tions throughout all S.E. Asia. Another important feature of the new campus will be a computer centre which will be supplied with US$600,000 worth of data processing equipment under the long- term capital development plan.
The board of trustees approved a proposal by the British firm of Robert Matthew, Johnson-Mar- shall & Partners for an architectural and engineering development plan for a 400-acre site 40 kilometres north of Bangkok on which the new AIT campus will be built. This firm of architects and planners will also study the suitability of 600 neighbouring acres for development by other institutions of high- er education, particularly Thammasat University.
Builders seek competition for low-cost flats
The Master Builders Association of Malaya has asked the government to allow conventional builders to compete with industrialised housing specialists for contracts for multi-storey low cost flats.
In a letter to the Housing Minister last month, the association president, Mr. Lim Chong Hin, said the prefabrication system was neither cheaper nor faster. It was suitable in countries where manpower
permit year-round work. was scarce, wages high and where weather did not
In Malaysia, the letter continued, the conven- tional system had the advantage of giving more employment, using more local materials and con- serving foreign exchange. It also produced stronger buildings, as evidenced by the fact that the con- ventional system was used in skyscraper construc- tion throughout the world.
A ten-year US$5 million capital development programme providing for a new 400-acre campus to support eventually a 96-member faculty and 684 graduate students in civil, mechanical and elec- trical engineering, has been approved by the board Philippine Apartments projects of trustees of the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok.
The decision follows closely the presentation of a preliminary report on a ten-year development study made for the trustees by the American management consultants, Cresap, McCormick and Paget. More
One of the largest apartment buildings in the Manila area is planned at Ermita by Consolidated Funds Inc. To be known as the Continental Build- ing, it will have 13 floors with four units on each floor.
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