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in a multiple usage must be very flexible and Ocean Ter- minal is no ex- ception.
the various floors. The L.T. submains are of various cable types depending upon the location and application.
This is the first building in Hong Kong
project use the solid aluminium core, PVC insulated, aluminium tape
the PVC served cable. armoured, and There are also copper stranded core, paper insulated, impregnated cable and mineral insulated copper cover- ed cable. The mineral insulated cop- per covered cable was used where a high fire risk is involved.
entrance
A major part of the project was public lighting. Except for the main and the main concourse there are no windows in the building which sets an immediate requirement for controlled artificial lighting. conjunction with the architect many fittings were specially designed.
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Of particular interest is a special diffused fluorescent fitting which was designed in such a fashion as to dis- guise visually the number of internal tubes. The tube pattern was varied row by row in order to control the total light intensity of an area.
Another facet of the lighting de- sign was the requirement to control all external lighting. from one loca- tion. This is a requirement of the masters and pilots of the docking ships. Any bright external light could blind them during the critical docking operation.
As to be expected on a project of this size, there are motors and drives of all sizes and descriptions in every location. Wherever there are a group of drives in a plant room, the motor control is centralized in a motor control centre. These motor control centres were entirely custom designed and built to suit the needs of the project. This design approach reduces installation errors to a minimum and maintenance problems to almost nil because each board is factory function tested under the supervision of an engineer from our
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a 1,000 line tele- phone main distri- bution frame for connection to the Hong Kong Tele- phone Co.
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addition to the facility through the Telephone Co. for both operation there and tenants are also special paging facilities, connection to the Wharf Co. internal exchange, car call facilities, and in- dependent inter- com systems some of them special purpose with amplifiers and ex- ternal speakers.
Lifts and Escalators
There are five lifts and ten escala- tors in the building. The lifts are pri- marily for the use of the shopkeepers to handle their products but all of the goods lifts are fitted with automatic doors and car call so that they may be used unattended by passengers. lift is exclusively passenger and is pri- marily for the shopping and restaurants at the seaward end of the building.
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The escalators are to ease the flow of pedestrian traffic from one level to another. Extra wide escalators have been used wherever possible. All es- calators are reversible and the one at the main entrance is internally lighted.
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Plumbing is one facet of the project where very special difficulties have been encountered at every phase of design.
As the terminal is built out over the harbour which the government is attempting to maintain "fragrant" in a pleasant sense, we had to utilize special stereophagus pumps for the sewage, These pumps grind the waste into а fine effluent before pumping to the sea. They are "spe- cial" in the sense that they are de- signed to resist the corrosive action of the harbour water used for flushing.
Horizontally oriented structures always pose special drainage and water supply problems and the Ocean Terminal has been no exception. The single biggest difficulty has been the necessity of not carrying waste and soil lines through public areas.
With the excellent cooperation of all concerned these problems have been overcome and extensive facili- ties have been achieved for every purpose from doctors offices to res- taurants and snack bars.
Fire Services
The Ocean Terminal has the most complete and the first integrated fire system to be used in the Colony. As can be imagined, very special atten- tion was focused on this aspect by many government departments and the office of the Director of Fire Ser- vices. With many thousands of tons of cargo on the lower deck and pos- sibly many thousands of people above, very special consideration had to be given to alarm and protection.
The heart of the system is an elec- tronic master fire panel designed by the services consultants which in- tegrates signals received from heat
Far East Architect & Builder March, 1966