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Thai medical science building

This 11-storey building at the Medical Science University near Siriraj Hospital in Thon Buri, Thailand, is due to be completed in mid-1969 at a cost of about 28 million baht. It will contain an X-ray (radium and cobalt) treatment laboratory, tumour clinic, blood bank, central supply store and private rooms for patients. The architect is Mr. Thaweesak Chandharojwongse of the Archi- tecture and Engineering Division, Bureau of Public Works, Bangkok

Crash programme for low-cost housing in West Malaysia

MALAYSIA'S Minister of Local Government and

Housing, Mr. Khaw Kai Boh, said last month that the Government had launched a a M$32 million crash programme for low-cost housing in small towns.

The programme entails 200 schemes totalling 8.110 units and covers all 11 states of West Malaysia.

Mr. Khaw said that the low-cost terrace houses

would be built in small towns with populations of about 1,000 and above. The value of a house, plus land, was about M$4,000. Payment would be by monthly instalments of M$25 to M$35.

The total covered floor space of each house was 620 sq. ft. and the total area 1,020 sq. ft. Each would have three rooms and the houses would be built in rows of 32 and 50 units per scheme.

The number of schemes provisionally approved for each state, with the number of units in brackets, is: Perak, 47 (1,864); Selangor, 24 (1,056); Johore 27 (908); Negri Sembilan, 22 (974); Kedah, 22 (902); Pahang, 16 (656); Penang. 13 (524); Malacca, 10 (464); Trengganu, 8 (302); Kelantan, 6 (264); Perlis, 5 (196). Tenders are to be invited soon for the first groups.

HK Structural Engineers' officers

MR. S.L. Au, Government structural engineer, has been elected chairman of the Institute of Structural Engineers, Hong Kong Section. Vice chairman is Pro- fessor Sean Mackey and the new committee comprises: H.K. Chang, Bernard Leung, S. Lee and P.K. Ng.

Car parks for new Singapore townships

THE Singapore Housing and Development Board is about to award contracts for the construction of two blocks of multi-storey car parks in the Outram Road redevelopment area. Each will be five-storeys high with accommodation for 430 cars.

A spokesman for the Board said last month it was

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planned to build multi-storey car parks within all the satellite townships to be erected under the Govern- ment's urban renewal programme in order to make the maximum economic use of land. Each would have a restaurant on the top floor and lock-up shops on the ground floor.

Work starts on HK$3.5 million flyover

CONSTRUCTION began last month on a new flyover at one of the busiest road junctions in Kowloon Princess Margaret Road/Gascoigne Road/Chatham Road. The contract, worth HK$3,439,869, has been awarded to Paul Y Construction Co. Ltd.

To be known as the Chatham Road flyover, it will join Chatham Road with Princess Margaret Road by means of a four-lane carriageway supported on piled foundations across Cascoigne Road. The flyover will measure about 1,000 ft. in length, including ramps.

The scheme will enable north-south traffic to

cross the junction without interruption. To provide for the traffic flow between Tsim Sha Tsui and Hung Hom, Kai Tak and the north-eastern part of Kowloon, free flowing slip roads will be incorporated into the project. East-west traffic will remain at ground level and will be able to flow freely along Gascoigne Road and Chatham Road crossing the road junction under

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the flyover. Construction work is expected to be finished towards the end of next year.

On Hong Kong island a section of Gloucester Road between the east end of Harcourt Road and Luard Road is to be widened as part of the scheme to form a waterfront road linking Central District with North Point. This section of Gloucester Road will be provided with a dual three-lane carriageway with an 18 ft. wide service road on the south side so that commercial vehicles can have access to properties on the landward side of the road without hinderance to the main traffic flow.

In addition, a flyover and two pedestrian foot- bridges will be built across the widened roadway. The flyover will link the new road with Arsenal Street while the footbridges will be built opposite the Arsenal Street Police Headquarters and near the Luard Road junction.

Big order for precast floor planks

AN area of 85,000 sq. ft. of precast floor planks will be supplied by Hume Industries (Far East) Ltd. for the Singapore Public Utilities Board's new Jurong power station.

The 10,000 units will be of inverted U-shape, designed locally to the specifications of the engineering consultants, Merz and MacLellan, Newcastle, UK. They will be manufactured at Hume's Bukit Timah plant. The order is worth $$132,000.

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