WEST KOWLOON TRANSFER STATION - HONG KONG
The West Kowloon Transfer Station is the largest of
nine waste transfer stations in Hong Kong,
and with its designed capacity to process 2,875 tonnes of waste per day, probably the largest waste processing plant in the world.
The project comprised:
- Design & Construct Building works contract,
- Design & Construct Shipbuilding contract for two, 4,000 deadweight tonnes, 210TEU container ships, designed in Shanghai and built in Jiangmen, China,
- Design & Construct contract for four gantry cranes, designed in the UK and built in Holland,
- Design & Construct contract for ten waste compactors, designed and manufactured in the UK;
- Five hundred, special design waste containers, designed and built in Yangzhou, China; and
- Moving floors, from Holland; weighbridges from Scotland; vehicle & container washing equipment from the UK,
- Air scrubbers and odour control equipment,
- Waste Water Treatment Plant,
- and sundry other plant and equipment contracts.
Total Value HK$630 million [about US$80 million]
Commenced December 1995 - Completed May 1997
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At the other end, up in the New Territories is the West New Territories (WENT) 100 Hectare landfill where cranes unloaded the containers of refuse for disposal into the sate of the art landfill.
Waste Management magazine article
Site view during construction, office building to the left, main refuse receiving building to the right..
A view of some of the 10 waste compactors being installed at ground level.
Erection of the gantry cranes at West Kowloon.
Construction of Tipping Hall with Weighbridge Control building in centre at ground level.
