Shantou International Hotel

Model Hotel Project for Shantou City

In the early 1980′s, China realised that its hotel industry required modernisation.  In cities designated as China’s special economic zones, the governments were taking measures to introduce international standards to their hotel trade. Some attracted overseas hotel investors to set up and operate international hotels in their cities; while others chose to invest and build their own model hotels with overseas expertise.  In 1985, Shantou City decided to build a model hotel to showcase the international hotel standards to its local community.  M&P was commissioned to design and supervise the M&E installations.

Energy Audit as a Design Tool

At the time, China was poor; electricity supply was inadequate; and supply infrastructure fee was expensive.   Conventional design would require 3 nos. 1600KVA transformers with a infrastructure fee over RMB 2M, a huge sum in those days.   The Owner requested a special design effort to economise on this cost, without compromising the hotel standard.

M&P carried out an energy audit which was based on the existing hotel operation in Hong Kong; incorporated the hotel operator’s new requirements; and analysed the overall power requirements of the new hotel on a hour by hour basis.   By applying this energy audit concept in the hotel design, M&P was able to reduce the power requirement to 2 nos. 1800KVA transformers (without compromising the hotel services), and reduced the infrastructure fee by 25%.