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HK$33 million to be spent on university buildings
NEW building projects in a 1968-71 capital programme for Hong Kong's two universities, now agreed by Government, will cost a total of HK$33,- 075,000. The universities have begun detailed planning and are hopeful of being able to maintain the tight timetable of work which the programme entails.
Of the total. HK$25,330,000 is for the Chinese University of Hong Kong and $7,745,000 for the University of Hong Kong. Furniture, equipment, fees and contingencies for the new projects amount to a further $14.4 million for the Chinese University and about $3.7 million for HKU.
In addition to these items there is a programme of
external works at Sha Tin, the site of the new Chinese University of Hong Kong, amounting to $37 million.
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This new complex now under construction in the Makati commercial area of Manila is the Makati Medical Centre. is due for completion this year. Architect is Mr. Luis M. Araneta and contractor, Manalac Construction Co.
Works already approved by the Government for HKU amount to $7 million; these include extensions to the library building and a block of staff housing now half complete.
Largest single item in the capital programme is site works at Sha Tin. Chung Chi College is already at Sha Tin but the university headquarters and two of the foundation colleges, United College and New Asia College, each with more than 600 students, have to be built in their entirety on the new site. W. Szeto, architects, have prepared the master plan for the whole campus, while Chau and Lee have planned the Chung Chi College.
The largest of the new buildings at The Chinese University is the central science laboratories of which the Hong Kong Government will meet half the cost, the other half being met from UK Ministry of Overseas Development funds. United and New Asia Colleges will have new teaching and general purpose buildings and there will be a central administration building, staff and student amenities and student hostels.
A new central library building for The Chinese University is also in the programme to which the in addition to money for books. Government is contributing nearly one-third of the cost, Two-thirds of the library building cost is being met from private funds.
Personal and private donations make the actual building programme at The Chinese University much larger than that shown in the Government programme. Some of the buildings are wholly paid for from private funds. The first of these, the Benjamin Franklin Centre, is now under construction and completion of
building works is scheduled for the end of this year. The bulk of the central university services, including the central administration, should move out to Sha Tin and occupy the centre in March 1969. United College is expected to move to the new site early in 1971 and New Asia College about one year later.
In addition to works already under construction at Chung Chi College the new programme includes road works and student centre for the college which will initially be used to facilitate movement of the other colleges to the site.
At the University of Hong Kong the major new building is the administration and general purpose building. In addition to renovation and conversion work at Eliot, Lugard and May Halls of Residence, a small engineering building is to be erected.
Singapore reclamation scheme to be extended
SINGAPORE'S East Coast reclamation scheme from Bedok to Amber Road is to be extended to the end of Tanjong Rhu adding a further 120 acres of land. The new extension to the original 1,000-acre re- clamation will enable a proposed coastal arterial road on the area to link up eventually with Collyer Quay. The coastal road will be more than six miles long.
A rate of about one acre a day is at present being maintained on the reclamation project which has reach- ed the half way stage almost ten months ahead of schedule. The contractors are Ohbayashi-Gumi of Japan.
AIA honour for Hong Kong Architect
THE American Institute of Architects has awarded the title of Honorary Fellow to Mr. Su Gin-djih, MSc. Arch (Michigan), a founder member of the Hong Kong Society of Architects.
He is one of ten foreign architects to receive the
Far East BUILDER, May 1968.
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