POWER BOARD BUILDING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 101, 29 March 1939, Page 10

POWER BOARD BUILDING.

1 n reference to the adoption of the scheme prepared by the architect (Air E. V. West, of Palmerston North) lor the reinforcement of the Dannevirke Power Board’s building against the possibility of earthquake damage, as announced in yesterday’s “Standard,” the architect had been in consultation with a sub-committee set up by file board. The scheme provides for the reinforcing of front and side walls back to a distance of 50 feet, with steel and concrete columns, and the encasing of the present cast-iron columns with concrete and reinforced steel. The near wall of the two-storey portion of tlie building, at present of wood and iron construction, is to l>e replaced with a concrete wall. The scheme proposed by the architect is similar to that which has been used in a numlrer of brick buildings in Dantievirkc, including the Town Hall. Mr AVest described the effect as transforming the construction into one of brick panels in reinforced concrete stanchions.