No_6_June_1969 — Page 26

Despatch area of printing floor

THOMSON

ROAD

TENNIS

COURT

LEE KUO CHIAN

SCHOOL

CHEQUERS

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PROPOSED FACTORY

MATERIALS STORE

every 2 ft., enabling plug-in fused con- nector boxes to be connected to any of these points without disconnecting the supply. The system was supplied by the Power Centre Co. of United Kingdom.

The air-conditioning system to the office areas, the plate making and layout department (ground floor) and the graphic arts department (mezzanine floor) is of 87 tons capacity and is served by 175 h.p. and 140 h.p. com- pressors and seven chilled water air handling units.

Costs

The total cost of the project was S$2,540,243, which is made up as follows:

Site preparation

Structural steelwork (supply and erection)

General building work

S$

30,951

184,750

1,669,126

Fibreglass valley gutters

(supply and fixing)

33,867

Sanitary and water

installation

137,272

Electrical installation

158,573

Air-conditioning installation 126,000

Mechanical ventilation

69,413

Sprinkler installation

113,658

Roof fire vents (fusible links) 11,866

Letterings, signboards and

4,767

2,540,243

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flagpoles

Contractors

The main contractor was Soh Beng Tee & Co. Ltd. and the construction time was nine months.

Sub-contractors and suppliers in-

cluded:

Ltd.

Earthwork Soh Beng Tee & Co.

Structural steelwork Kwok & Sons Ltd.

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George

Site plan

air induced through large fans and dis- tributed by ducts running the full length of the bays aided by motor driven extract fans at high level on the roof. The large fans for the air intake are situated outside the building to minimise noise and a feature has been made of their housings over the main doors to the factory bays.

Finishes

Internal floor finishes to both the factory and the materials storage bays is a 2 in. thickness of granolithic, top- ped monolithically with a 1/2 in. thickness of heavy duty Ferrogram 'AA'.

On the factory floor a coloured

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surface has been obtained by the use of Green Colorcrete, finished with a waxed polish. Wall dadoes to a height of 7 ft. in the industrial areas are finished in Vitracote, a hard wearing epoxy resin paint, and all other surfaces both internal and external have an emulsion paint finish.

A particular feature of the building is the use of fibreglass for the large valley gutters between the bays and for the large water storage tanks — a much higher first cost aimed at avoiding recurrent maintenance costs.

Another feature is the 250 and 400 amp. aluminium busbar trunking which serves two bays of the factory and which is equipped with tap-off points

Sanitary and water supply Yat Lye Ltd.

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Electrical installation Reliance Electric (Pte) Ltd.

installation

Air-conditioning I.A.C. Singapore (Pte) Ltd..

Eaves and valley gutters, etc. Fibreglass (M) Ltd.

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-

Letterings Electro Mechanical Industries Ltd.

Illuminated signboard and flagpoles

- Diethelm & Co. Ltd.

Mechanical ventilation

Singapore (Pte) Ltd.

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-

I.A.C.

Roof extractor unit General Electric Co.

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Colt fire vents Sime, Darby & Co. Ltd.

Sprinkler installation & Co. Ltd.

McAlister

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Far East BUILDER, June 1969