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Far East ARCHITECT & BUILDER

The oldest trade journal in the Far East

EDITOR: A. G. BARNETT

Contents

SEPTEMBER 1967

news review

News Review

25

HK$20 million Extension at

Queen Mary Hospital

29

Operating Theatre and Radiodiagnosis

30

Blocks

Professorial and Radiotherapy

33

Block

Sisters' and Nurses' Quarters

37

43

53

British Military Hospital

Engineering Services at

British Military Hospital

Anti-Cancer Hospital

Materials and Equipment

Contractors' Plant ..

Building Plans Approved

Contracts Awarded

Books

Index to Advertisers

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55

61

65

69

71

71

84

Cover picture: North face of the professorial block and bridge connection to the existing Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. The block is one of three new developments at the hospital, carried out under a HK$20 million exten- sion programme. See page 29.

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HUNG HOM DEVELOPMENT

Hong Kong Government has made public a draft outline zoning plan for the long term development of the Hung Hom district of Kowloon. The plan, prepared by the Town Planning Board, is now on exhibition at the Crown Lands and Survey Office.

The area covered by the plan, which allows for a total population for the district on full development of about 147,500 persons, is about 258.57 acres, including about 25.77 acres of land to be reclaimed to the south of To Kwa Wan. It is estimated that at present the population of the area is some 110.000 persons.

Of the total areas to be developed, 43.93 acres is zoned for residential use on the plan. The majority of the area is already developed. An area of 13.6 acres has been set aside for Government, institutional and com- munity use. With the exception of about 4.89 acres re- served on the new reclamation area for school purposes, the remaining areas are already developed for Govern- ment and institutional purposes.

On the new plan, an area of 28.5 acres has been zoned for public open space. At present there is virtually no open space within this area and the plan proposes four main open space areas placed to suit the needs of the population.

The plan shows an area of 110.5 acres zoned for industrial use. The majority of this area is already in existence and the plan proposes only a further 18.8 acres of new industrial land on the reclamation. A cargo hand- ling area has been specifically designated along the seawall of the reclamation.

$S18 M POWER STATION CONTRACTS

THE Public Utilities Board of Singapore has awarded two major contracts for civil engineering works at Jurong Power Station. amounting to more than $$18 million.

One, worth U$8.66 million is for the construction of foundations for the main building and chimney, turbines, boilers and other associated plant as well as foundations for the ancillary buildings, including the switch house, water treatment plant house and other buildings, and roads. The successful contractors are Paul Y Construction Co. Ltd.

The second, placed with C. Itoh and Co. Ltd. at S$9.65 million, is for the circulating water inlet and out- let culverts outside the main buildings together with the sea intake and outfall structures and the foundations of the air circulating water pumphouse.

THAI ROAD BRIDGE PROJECT

A NEW four-lane bridge costing about 10 million baht is to be built across the Nakorn Chaisri River at Nakorn Pathom, Thailand. It will be erected in two sections. When the first is completed the existing Phoken Bridge will be demolished and the second half constructed.

Each bridge will comprise nine 10 metre approach spans of reinforced concrete slab construction and seven 21

metre central spans of prestressed concrete box girders total length 237 metres.

Far East Architect & Builder September, 1967

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