Vehicle assembly plant completed at Batu Tiga
A COMPLETE vehicle assembly plant costing M$4 million was opened last month at Batu Tiga, near Kuala Lumpur. It has been built by the British con- tractors, Taylor Woodrow International Ltd. for Cham- pion Motors (M) Ltd., a subsidiary of Motor Invest- ments Ltd. and one of the Inchape Group of Comp- anies.
Awarded in March 1967, the contract covered the construction of a main assembly plant with a floor area of 180,000 sq. ft., together with offices, canteen com- plex, CKD storage areas and car parks. The site covers 750,000 sq. ft. on a new industrial estate being developed by the Selangor State Development Au- thority.
The assembly building, 450 ft. by 400 ft., is a single-storey frame structure with hollow block con- crete walls and large areas of louvred windows, roofed with aluminium sheeting. There are five CKD cover- ed storage areas with steel stanchions supporting al- uminium roofs, each 120 ft. by 60 ft., and a mainten- ance shop of similar dimensions.
The two-storey office building is a steel frame building with reinforced concrete floors, connected with the assembly building by a corridor adjacent to the canteen, kitchen and locker room complex. All the buildings are harmonised with a dark blue steel sheet fascia.
In full operation the assembly plant is geared to
Building plans approved
THE Building Authority approved a total 21 new building plans of all types in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories during April.
Statistics released by the Building Authority show that in the same period, 40 newly-completed buildings were certified for occupation as compared with 62 in the preceding month. Of the new buildings, three were for domestic purposes, 16 for non-domestic pur- poses, and 21 for combined domestic and non-domes- tic use.
Eighteen buildings were under complete demoli- tion in April. In addition, the Building Authority also approved the demolition of three buildings.
Thailand's largest rail terminal
GENERAL Engineering In- ternational Ltd.. Bangkok, has been authorised by the Thai State Railway to make a preli- minary economic survey for a new station complex at Hua Lampong. Bangkok. The re- sults of the survey will be pre- sented to the Communications Ministry and the National Economic Development Board in about five months.
Hua Lampong is Thailand's largest railway terminal. To completely renovate it will cost about 50 million baht. A 12- storey modern hotel with a total
Champion Motors assembly plant at Batu Tiga
produce some 6,000 vehicles per year, the various makes including Volkswagen, Toyota, Vauxhall, Audi and Mercedes.
Architects and structural engineers for the pro- ject were Raglan Squire and Partners, Singapore, and the quantity surveyors were Langdon and Every.
is proposed, on top of which would be a revolving restaurant. The complex would include shops, a de- partment store, offices and new railway platforms.
Philippine professions elect new officers
FOUR national professional organisations in the Philippines have now elected their officers for 1968 69. They are as follows:
League of Philippine Architects
Constantino F. Agbayani, president; Librado M. Macalinao, vice president; Edilberto F. Florentino, secretary; Eusebio Abella Jr., treasurer; Lucero M. Abello, Benedicto R. Laygo, Luis G. Guiang, Norberto M. Nuke, and Augusto C. Sanchez, directors; Greg Timbol, asso- ciate director; and Aquiles Paredes, ex-officio director.
Luciano
Association of Philippine Government Architects
V. Aquino, president; Deogracias Atienza, vice president; Caesar Magallanes, secretary; Herminio Golfo, treasurer; Louie Montes,
floor space of 34,890 sq. metres Model of proposed Hua Lampong rail terminal
Far East BUILDER, June 1968.
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