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(c)

(d)

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which legislation regulates the installation of cooling towers; and what are the particular points to which attention should be paid during installation in order to avoid violating the relevant legislation; BROM

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which department is responsible for demolishing cooling towers abandoned by companies which have ceased operation; whether action will be taken to recover the costs of demolition from the owners of such companies; and

whether the Government has demolished any abandoned cooling towers

? in the past three years; if so, how many were demolished each year

Answer:

Mr President,

(a)

(b)

The total number of cooling towers in the territory is not available, since no territory-wide survey on the subject has ever been conducted.

Since the installation of cooling towers is not considered as a separate type of building work in the Administration's record system, it is also not practicable to extract the number of applications and approvals for cooling tower installation.

Water tanks or water cooling towers are not themselves building works. However, the supporting frameworks are considered as building works and therefore subject to the control of the Buildings Ordinance.

Any person who wants to install a cooling tower should appoint a building professional to prepare a building plan describing details of the works to be done. The plan should be submitted to the Building Authority for approval prior to the commencement of works.

During installation, all works should strictly follow the sequences, procedures and requirements mentioned in the building plan approved by the Building Authority.

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