Computer block tender

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33883, 1 July 1975, Page 1

Computer block tender

A tender of $700,000 has been accepted for the three-storey extension to the computer centre at the University of Canterbury. Announcing this yesterday at a meeting of the University of Canterbury Council, the Vice-Chancellor (Professor N. C. Phillips) said that the builder would be the Christchurch firm, Paynter and Hamilton, which last week was the successful tenderer for the $7 Am second stage of the Christchurch Teachers’ College at Ham. Other buildings at the university now almost completed are the bookshop, near the James Hight libraryarts building, expected to be occupied by the end of August, a coffee bar in the basement of the James Hight building, due to be completed in September, and a post office, which will be opened late this months ARTS SCHOOL Work on the temporary buildings for the School of Fine Arts has been almost completed; seven old prefabricated buildings have been moved from the former town site of the university and two movable classrooms have been erected. The last of the main buildings still to be occupied are the staff blocks for the geography and psychology departments. These will be completed before the beginning of next month. Professor Phillips said that good progress was being made on planning for the new permanent School of| Fine Arts and the child-care, centre, which will be built j near the Student Union. , ' i