CURRENT STATUS OF PROPOSED SKI TRAC SITES

SOUTH AFRICA - A mandate has been signed with the tourism corporation of the Lesotho Government to commence the development stage of the Maseru Twin Domes. Financial assistance is being granted to make this a major tourist attraction in South Africa. In addition to the standard features of the Ski and Space Domes, a major attraction will be the Orange River Raft Safari which will occupy three levels of the Space Dome. Each twelve-man raft will pass through recreated landscapes commencing at the origin of the river high in the mountains of Lesotho and depict on both sides the life and story of this historic river as it makes its way to the Atlantic Ocean. The river will also feature on Skyline's Surround-180 five-projector cinema screen which will wrap the viewer within the breath-taking scenery. Just one of the incredible features that will set this apart as a unique world class destination.

THE MEGADOME - Back in the seventies, one of the world's leading engineering companies, Ove Arup, proposed a column-free roof structure spanning a breathtaking two kilometres in diameter. It would use an air-support principle now common to structures pioneered in the US and currently numbering in the thousands. Unaware of Arup's proposal at the time, Ski Trac's associate company Skyline Creation Ltd took the air-support concept to its ultimate use, designing a "City under a roof" one mile in diameter. Working with the world's leading exponent of the technology, Air Structures America Incorporated (ASATI), Skyline is now set to introduce the long-sought solution to extreme weather habitation. Negotiations to date will shortly see the Megadome's futuristic design appear in Inner Mongolia (Ordos), South Korea, Nigeria and Quebec. When inflated under surprisingly low pressure, ASATI's patented cable-net system with its super-strong Teflon-coated membrane underneath will endure the worst possible winds and snow conditions, handling those extremes better than conventional structures. In its standard leisure/commercial/tourism design the dome will feature a Ski Trac Ski Mountain, one kilometre long beach, world's longest wave pool and, believe it or not, an indoor 18-hole golf course! Skyline is now also fielding enquiries for an agricultural greenhouse, animal winter refuge, a golf dome, and most interesting of all, a dome-covered retirement village! The Skyline Megadome is decidedly the "future now" in moderating unliveable conditions to an ideal and attractive climate!

NIGERIA - As part of a strategy to capitalise our two companies using the services of our Beijing-based Canadian associate, Georges EmmerSon Caza, a by-product has been an admission to high levels of the government. Through much negotiation by Caza and many weeks in Lagos, authorities are seriously interested in a strategy proposed to them to make Nigeria "the new manufacturing, business and financial hub of the world." Using a sovereign program successfully put into place by Caza and his team in another developing country, funding is possible to spawn a huge industrial park and infrastructure offering very attractive conditions. With this program successfully implemented, Nigeria, one of the fastest-growing economies, will be set to create the new wave of low-cost production to the world. A Megadome will be the centrepiece of the whole development which will provide accommodation, hotels, a trade centre, commercial and leisure facilities including mountain skiing and indoor golf. Also high security, and relief from the wet and humid conditions of the region and its insect-borne diseases. A preliminary agreement for the land has been signed with the King of the Delta Region.

NEW SKI TRAC DESIGN

The Ski Trac rotating deck will no longer be confined only to its depicted 240 metre diameter dome (although that will be the standard product). The "Ski Ring," a 300 metre diameter deck comprising a cold room plus a roof cover over the deck area only, can be built on the side of slope at a much cheaper cost than inside a dome. The Ski Ring will accommodate up to 2000 skiers at any one time on a specially profiled rotating snow field. One such ring will be located in a huge Megadome being planned for Beijing.

SKI TRAC & SKYLINE OFFICES

AUSTRALIAN OFFICE: 5/50 Secam Street, Mansfield, Brisbane Qld Australia, Ph. 61-7-3849 7889, Fax: 61-7-3343 2222 Email: skitrac@bigpond.net.au:

HONG KONG OFFICE: 5/F Hong Kong Trade Centre, 161 Des Voeux Rd,Central, Hong Kong. Phone (852) 8114 2684

BEIJING OFFICE: Unit 1167, Landmark Apartments. 8 North Dongsanhuan Road, Chaoyang District. Beijing. Phone: 86-188 0110 6880.