CANTERBURY UNIVERSITY’S NEW SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, on which actual construction began only a fortnight ago, already has foundation work well advanced. Thirty months are allowed for the £681,292 contract. These photographs, taken yesterday, show:—(1) Mr Oswald Gray, project foreman, places a warning notice at one of the excavations 7ft 6in deep, for the column bases. There is still water in the bottom of some excavations, and there could be danger for children. (2) The clerk of works, Mr B. de Wilde, and the contractor, Mr John Calder, standing beside the prefabricated reinforcing steel cores for the column bases. (3) Excavating the first of the 7ft 6in deep service ducts which will contain electricity, gas. water, heating, and air-conditioning mains, and allow standing room for inspection. (4) Completed column bases being checked by Mr E. Keast, a jnb foreman. The upright piers are integral with wide reinforced concrete bases, four to six feet square.

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28451, 4 December 1957, Page 9

CANTERBURY UNIVERSITY’S NEW SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, on which actual construction began only a fortnight ago, already has foundation work well advanced. Thirty months are allowed for the £681,292 contract. These photographs, taken yesterday, show:—(1) Mr Oswald Gray, project foreman, places a warning notice at one of the excavations 7ft 6in deep, for the column bases. There is still water in the bottom of some excavations, and there could be danger for children. (2) The clerk of works, Mr B. de Wilde, and the contractor, Mr John Calder, standing beside the prefabricated reinforcing steel cores for the column bases. (3) Excavating the first of the 7ft 6in deep service ducts which will contain electricity, gas. water, heating, and air-conditioning mains, and allow standing room for inspection. (4) Completed column bases being checked by Mr E. Keast, a jnb foreman. The upright piers are integral with wide reinforced concrete bases, four to six feet square.