Technical Visit to Hong Kong Disneyland Resort’s Disney Explorers Lodge

By Ir S L Tse

Due to overwhelming response from members on the technical visit to the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort in 2015, FE Division organised the captioned half-day visit on 28 September 2017. The Disneyland Explorers Lodge (the Lodge) is the third Disney hotel at Lantau Island and officially opened in May 2017. It occupies 6.4 hectares with a total of 750 guest rooms.

Participants were first welcomed by Mr. C.K. Chan, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Manager of Hongkong International Theme Parks Ltd. Mr. Chan presented the aerial view of the Lodge to show the 9 building blocks for guest rooms, dining areas, kitchen, offices and plant rooms, and described facilities provided. He mentioned the specially designed emergency vehicular access to facilitate future building maintenance for the Lodge. He also showed a video presentation of the accommodation design according to the four unique tropical climates of Asia, Oceania, South America and Africa.

After that, Ir Gerald T K Lee, Technical Director of Mott MacDonald, gave a presentation on the design of fire service installations for the Lodge. He mentioned the constraints encountered in the design of sprinkler system for elongated guest room with window bay and circle type end cap guest room. He briefly explained hydraulic calculations in sprinkler system design for different fire scenarios. He showed two different videos of water discharge tests conducted at site to verify the performance of extended coverage horizontal sidewall sprinkler inside a guest room and the design of sprinkler system.

After the presentations, a guided tour around the Lodge was arranged. Participants had an opportunity to take a closer look at the extended coverage horizontal sidewall sprinkler installed in a guest room and the location of fire shutter with 31m span at the atrium. The visit was well received by our members.