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New Federal Building For Brisbane
Brisbane, Monday. – Plans have been prepared for a new eight-storey Commonwealth building at the corner of Ann and Creek Streets, Brisbane, adjoining the present Commonwealth offices, at an estimated cost of £2,000,000.
It will be the first in Brisbane designed to resist atomic bombs. The new building will be erected in three sections and tenders for excavations for the first block are expected to be called within four months.
The structure will be steel framed, encased in concrete, with double reinforced external concrete walls and concrete floor slabs. There will be reinforced concrete permanent internal partitions; reinforced concrete rigidity and fire curtain walls to give added strength, as recommended by the Department of Civil Defence, to give protection against atomic bombs.
Tenders for the first block are expected to be called in 12 months and construction is expected to take five years. Another