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It will also organise groups of programmes as required, storing results for use later in the chain of calculations, and plotting or tabulating the answers required.
GENESYS was first mooted in 1967, when a Ministry of Public Building and Work's Committee on the Application of Computers in the Construc- tion Industry appointed a working party to examine how computer programmes could be more widely available to structural engineers.
In a report published last year, the working party recommended that the principal and imme- diate need was for a general software system with
The Brixton School of Building and Vauxhall College of Further standard input and output data format that would
Education
The Vauxhall College will be a long, slab block of seven storeys and constructed with in-situ con- crete frame and floors. The professional block consists of two slab blocks, eight storeys and six storeys in in-situ concrete linked together by a steel-framed central area.
All the buildings will be clad with large, pre- finished, precast, concrete panels, weighing up to 3 tons each.
control the operation of a number of sub-systems to solve specific analysis problems, and that could be run on the range of computers likely to be in general use in Britain in the future. A$15 million hotel planned in Australia
Designed by architects Shingler Risdon Asso- ciates, the project is programmed for 33 months. Quantity surveyors, Wakeman, Trower and Partners, and consulting engineers, Bylander, Waddell and Partners.
Five-year hotel expansion programme
Sydney will soon have a new A$15 million hotel and shopping complex on the site of the famous old Adams Hotel. The 44-storey building will have five levels of underground parking, two levels of ground floor shopping arcades, nine levels of offices and a hotel of 26 floors, comprising 527 rooms and 66 suites.
An unprecedented five-year expansion program- me involving the expenditure of US$865 million for the construction of new hotels and motor inns, was announced recently by Sheraton Corp., of the USA, subsidiary of ITT.
At completion of the programme, Sheraton will have expanded its international hotel system by 76 new hotels and motor inns with 36,023 guest rooms, and will be represented in 38 countries around the world.
The overall plan is to make the building a cen- tral point for visitors to Sydney because of the
The new building-systems programme incor- porates a Sheraton room which has been copy- righted and will produce an distinctive exterior architectural element, resulting from a pentagonal unit-bath projecting outside the building line. The new Sheraton room provides more than twice as much living and recreation space as the conven- tional hotel room of today.
Computer system for structural engineers
The British Government is to place a contract for the development of a computer system for structural engineering. It is expected to be available to the industry by the end of next year.
One of the functions of the system, known as GENESYS (General Engineering System for Struc- tures), is to eliminate wasteful duplication of effort by laying down standards of data input and output, and enable anyone with access to one of the com- puters for which it has been designed to use any programme written for it.
Sydney's A$ 15 million hotel and shopping complex
special facilities and services which will be available.
The hotel is expected to be in operation by November 1972. The underground facilities are designed to receive and despatch hotel buses which will transfer hotel guests between the airport and the hotel.
Far East BUILDER, August 1969
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