The Transport Department Vehicle Examination Complex, TDVEC, is the latest construction to carry out vehicle examination by Transport Department in Hong Kong. The TDVEC project is a multi-storey building which comprises 30 inspection lanes with other vehicle inspection and testing facilities. This project is a reprovision project for the existing 3 current vehicle examination centres, namely the Kowloon Bay VEC, New Kowloon Bay VEC and To Kwa Wan VEC, and combining all examination operations of these 3 centres into one centralized building.
The design handling capacity of the new VEC at Tsing Yi is 1000 vehicles per day. To accommodate the sheer operational space within the irregularly shaped and congested site, the team has devised an innovative driveway arrangement – double helical ramp to resolve the vertical vehicle traffic as well as eliminating the potential vehicular conflict due to head-on traffic in most vehicle-oriented building. The façade design is inspired by the metaphor of smooth-running machines which endow this ultra utilitarian building with unique identity.
Team:
Architect: Wong Tung & Partners Limited
Photography: Wong Tung & Partners Limited
