Hongkong, Kowloon East two building provoke power consumption in the early morning lights

Floor 3, construction area of more than 14 square meters of cruise terminal, June for the first time after the ship docked, has not been open to the outside world, but the lights are often open, until the morning of 1 to 2 when the lights have not yet turned off. As for the Grand Street, located in Kowloon Bay total operating area of 21 thousand square meters of the central mail center, last month to complete the construction project, to be opened next year. Ming Pao reporters on Wednesday and Thursday at about midnight, respectively to the two site observation, cruise pier with a triangular window.

According to Hongkong media reports, while the government prepared to night lights on the tube business consulting, planning the media found that building two new Kowloon East government buildings, Eic cruise terminal and Kowloon Bay Central mail center but "light", often in the early morning of 1 to 2 is still brightly lit, which is light photometric mail center market 21 times higher.

The SAR government responded that the pier is a test light, promised to complete the test will be out of the lights early, the center of the main entrance of the underground lobby by the media after the inquiry, found that there is no regulation at 7 p.m.. As for the Grand Street, located in Kowloon Bay total operating area of 21 thousand square meters of the central mail center, last month to complete the construction project, to be opened next year.

Ming Pao reporters on Wednesday and Thursday at about midnight, respectively to the two site observation, cruise pier with a triangular window floor full of lights, the security guard said there is no engineering building, only in the test lamp. Due to the ban on outsiders to enter the terminal, the reporter failed to test its luminosity.

As for the 6 floor of the mail center is at least a layer of light, but no one in the building to work, the ground floor of the floor of the glass lighting fire, and even illuminate the pedestrian road 4. Reporters in the lobby is outside the measuring luminosity, a reading of 134 lux (Lux), and the 5 step across the street opposite the street lights, the luminosity is about 6 lux, which is 21 times higher than the building was.

According to the Hongkong post, the center is about 6000 T5 light tubes, 1000 CFLs, 300 metal halide lamps and 70 LED light-emitting diode lamp. The minimum number of the tile light tubes and bulbs for calculation, the power consumption per hour about 125 kwh; if all lights "open all night for up to 12 hours a night, electricity consumption will reach 1500 kwh of electricity, a total of HK $1567.5 (HK $1.045 per unit of electricity in electricity).

Department of professional education engineering lecturer He Jianxun said that the general household electricity tariff of about four hundred or five hundred yuan per month, which means that the center of the night to turn on the lights overnight, is a family of electricity costs for 3 months. He said that the commercial electricity tariff calculation method is more complex than household electricity, and there is an additional fee, material consumption than the above projections or higher.

Hongkong Tourism Commission responded that the Department is now tested for the lighting system of the building, the building must be light at night for a long time, there is a commitment to the staff in the field, after the completion of the test will be early to turn off the lights, only to maintain adequate lighting for security purposes.

Hongkong post reply said, in addition to emergency lighting, mail center lighting system on Monday to six am to open at 8 p.m., the rest of the time to turn off the lights. Hongkong post by the media after a comprehensive inspection found that the main entrance of the building lighting facilities, not in accordance with the provisions of the lights at 7 p.m..

Familiar with the light pollution of the friends of the earth environmental affairs senior manager Zhu Hanqiang said that although the two sites and residential distance, but few people harassment does not equal arbitrary power, urge the Hong Kong government building at about 9 and 10, shut the lights useless. He Xiulan, chairman of the Environmental Affairs Committee of the Legislative Council, criticized the message center as a result of negligence is not a waste of light, to promote the legislative provisions of the building at night after the specified time, only to retain security purposes and basic lighting.