O·PARK2
Brunel Medal (Recognition of low-carbon solutions in the built environment)
O·PARK2 will be Hong Kong’s second organic resources recovery centre upon its commissioning in 2024. With a capacity to process 300 tonnes of food waste per day, the facility will adopt anaerobic digestion to convert food waste into biogas for electricity generation. The surplus biogas produced can be converted to about 24 million kWh of electricity annually, sufficient for use by some 5,000 households. It is estimated that O·PARK2 will lead to a 67,000-tonne reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually.
Even during the current construction phase, the project has adopted a number of carbon reduction measures, including the use of low-carbon construction materials and renewable energy.
WSP is serving as the engineering design consultant to the design-build-operate joint venture consortium to offer civil, structural, geotechnical and traffic engineering consultancy, architectural and landscape design, building services design as well as BIM management.