Thanks to the Chief Executive, Mrs. Carrie Lam, for officiating at the completion ceremony of the Fire Services Department’s Married Quarters at Pak Shing Kok, Tseung Kwan O.

Fire Services Department’s Married Quarters at Pak Shing Kok is Hong Kong’s Construction 2.0 Pilot Project to firstly adopt concrete Modular Integrated Construction (MiC). This project was built with Yau Lee’s High Rise Concrete MiC System and consists of 3726 modules commonly known as “boxes” to provide Fire Services Department 5 quarters blocks with 16 to 17 residential storeys. Each floor is being made up of 8 units to provide 648 units in total.

 

By adopting the concept of “factory assembly followed by on-site installation”, MiC helps this project ease some of the current challenges faced by the local construction industry. Other key MiC features and benefits will include:

 

 

The “3S” concept of Standardization, Simplification and Single Integrated Element will be adopted to reduce unnecessary construction process.

The adaptation of MiC aims to provide a timely solution for enhancing time and quality control, and can improve cost-effectiveness by reducing the demand for skilled labour.

Beneficial in minimizing nuisance to adjacent buildings and occupants, and improving cleanliness.

Each box has had most of its finishes, interior fittings, fixtures, etc. assembled ahead in the factory.

More than 80% of the interior fitting-out processes are completed in a prefabrication yard. The fitting of the boxes calls for precise calculations.

It took about 5 working days to assemble each floor and less than 30 minutes to install a box. Lifting boxes to higher floors took around 5 minutes longer.

 

This project has been awarded the Local Grand Prize of CIC Construction Innovation Award 2019 and Yau Lee’s High Rise Concrete MiC System is also the first concrete MiC System approved by the Buildings Department. Yau Lee Group is dedicated to supporting Construction 2.0 and Industry 4.0 in order to achieve enhanced buildability, sustainability and productivity.