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"Above: Living room of old apartment.

Left: Bedroom and living room of new hotel suite – solid teak furniture.

LIVING

ROOM

CLIE

LOBBY

BEDROOM

BEDROOM

Plan of old apartments

BATH

BEDROOM

LOBBY

BEDROOM

LOBBY

Plan of new guestrooms

- Left: Typical bedroom

BATH

CORRIDOR

CORRIDOR

suspended alu-

minium ceiling and concealed lighting.

Below: Old apartment bedroom.

Far East BUILDER, June 1971

corridors were required to be of the same standard as those in Peninsula Hotel and consequently suspended ceilings, marble, mirrors, and other luxurious finishes were used exten- sively.

In each bedroom indirect lighting is provided for general illumination and supplementary wall bracket lights are mounted above the bedheads. Each room is provided with four television and three sound channels and the tele- vision set, which is standard in every room, is remotely controlled from a panel mounted above the bedhead. Mounted on this panel in addition to the programme selector and sound control are switches for all room and bedhead lights, a room service button and a "Do Not Disturb" control.

To reduce traffic noise from Nathan and Middle Roads all windows were double glazed by installing light sliding aluminium frames inside the existing steel windows. Each bathroom has a separate marble lined shower compartment, with marble basin and bath surrounds and floor. Each room has its own refrigerator, writing desk, vanity unit and luggage rack. The furniture for the rooms, made of solid teak, was imported in knocked-down units from Singapore and assembled in Hong Kong.

Local artist Van Lau was commis- sioned to prepare a set of etchings based on aspects of Hong Kong for the

rooms.

The present telephone exchange serving the two buildings is manually operated but during the redecoration, Peninsula Court was pre-wired throughout in anticipation of the installation of a Siemen's automatic exchange due to be fitted later this year. The exchange will offer all the latest hotel facilities including "Do Not Disturb" and "Message Waiting".

Peninsula Court was also pre-wired for a paging system which will be link- ed with the hotel and will also become operable when the PABX is commis- sioned. The paging system will enable the hotel to contact, by means of pocket receivers, any of its administra- tion or maintenance staff anywhere in the two buildings.

Bridge link

The bridge linking the two build ings consists of two Warren girders with diagonal bracing and continuous steel plates 4 in. thick top and bot- tom. The girders, spanning over 60 ft.,

are 12 ft. high, and the total weight of the bridge is 64 tons.

The bridge was erected by fixing the end quarters of the trusses to each building and then hoisting the middle section into position by a cable slung between the two buildings. To avoid inconvenience to the public the erec- tion was carried out at night and took three nights to complete.

External walls of the bridge are clad in prefabricated aluminium frames with mosaic and glass infills, and the soffit is clad in light-weight interlocking aluminium strips.

The internal walls of the bridge consist of prefabricated timber and plaster-board partitions and the sus- pended ceiling is made of light-weight aluminium interlocking strips. Above the ceiling run the electrical, tele- phone, Rediffusion, and chilled water services, all of which emanate from the main building. Electrically operated rolling shutters linked to smoke detec- tors protect each end of the bridge.

Services

When the Peninsula Court was a completely isolated building, all mechanical and electrical services in the building were provided in the usual way. After the bridge was planned it was decided that basic services could be provided from the Peninsula Hotel main building thereby reducing the number of plant attendants and ma- chinery to the minimum.

The air conditioning installation is a fan coil unit system utilising one fan coil unit for each bedroom, fed with chilled water from a central plant. The fan coil unit is located above the ceil- ing of the internal bathroom with a return air grille in the entrance lobby to the room and the supply air grille along the full length of the bathroom wall exposed to the bedroom. The filt- er is mounted in a frame on the top side of the return grille and the grille is hinged for easy access to the filter.

Fresh air is pre-conditioned by a single plant located on the roof and this air is transported through a main duct located in the light-well with a branch duct along the corridor at each floor level connecting to each room. This air is heated in winter to provide the heating requirements for the entire building.

The fan coil unit can be controlled by the guest by adjustment of a room thermostat which is connected to a three-way motorised valve on each

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