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Second phase at Paya Lebar

AIRPORT NERVE

CENTRE

HASE II in the building of the new permanent terminal build- ing at the Singapore Airport, Paya Lebar, has been completed with the construction of the operations block. Phase I was the P.O. block and the future passenger terminal building will be Phase III.

The operations block, which will be the nerve centre of control and administration of the whole airport, includes the administration block. proper, the control tower and the telephone exchange.

It will house the offices of the Director of Civil Aviation, Malayan Airways Ltd. and other air line

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CONTROL

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operators, the meteorology and air information services, the Royal Air Force and Joint Air Traffic Control Centre, telecommunications and pub. lic works departments.

The administration block is six storeys high, the telephone exchange one storey and the control tower rises to nine storeys.

Construction is of reinforced con- crete framed structure with brick in- fills and timber partitions. It is designed on a grid of 3 feet 2 inches inches and 1 foot 6 inches with the aim of giving flexibility to the ar- rangement of internal partitions to divide up rooms and offices.

Practically the whole building is air-conditioned and the air-condition. ing ducts are concealed in the ceiling of each floor.

A system of sunbreakers consisting of "Filon" plastic sheets, aluminium fins and "Naco" louvres is intro- duced on the longitudinal facades to cut down the glare of the sun.

External walls are rendered with granolithic chippings in white ce- ment and washed down. They are laid in panels with threequarter-inch grooves to imitate slab walling.

At other places the wall finishes range from sandfaced bricks in cream coloured mortar joints to Tyrolean plaster rendering.

Several types of asbestos cement blocks are also used for screen walls to staircases and landings. blocks have also been used.

Glass

Floor finishes internally are par quet to all offices; terazzo tiles and terazzo-in-situ rendering in corridors, stairs and stair landings; mosaic tiles and white glazed tiles to toilets and showers; quarry tiles to work-

shops and battery cement rendering to stores, plant and machinery rooms

the ground floor.

rooms;

and

on

The control tower cabin was sup- plied and installed by Messrs. Sime Darby (Singapore) Ltd. It is octa- gonal in shape and the double anti- sun glazing has a 27 degree slope to the vertical.

Total cost of the building was slightly under $M2,000.000.

Main contractors were Messrs Chin Che Cheng and Co. Ltd. Others are:

ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS:

Alliance Engineering Co. Ltd. AIR-CONDITIONING: Unique Air- conditioning and Refrigeration Co. Co.

LIFTS: Harrisons Lister Engineer-

ing Ltd.

SANITARY FITTINGS: Paterson,

Simons and Co. Ltd.

PLUMBING

AND DRAINAGE: Parkman and Co. Ltd.

WATERPROOF ROOF COVERING: Wm. Jacks and Co. (Malaya) Ltd. FLOORS AND WALL TILING:

Hecla. FIRE-FIGHTING EQUIPMENT: Sime Darby (Singapore) Ltd.

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