High Ceiling Inspection

GBE found the relax of headroom from PNAP has posed many difficulties to conduct professional inspection to above high ceiling. We made ourselves accessible with our own rising platform and wifi endoscope. Usually the drainage which poses the hygienic alert is hide above. Our way can ease many people pain.

 

How To Use Painting Product?

Painting products is a complex chemical product. The chemical process of paint film are vulnerable to the elements, humidity, solvent and craftsmanship. If the painting materials are contaminated, the mixing of solvent is incorrect proportionally, the drying condition and elements are unfavourable, the entire subsequent painting film drying process will become unpredictable.

 

Austin Avenue Project

GBE reads the Propertyweek. GBE lead Austin Avenue project and have known many buildings in Hong Kong usually was not built with extra E-power; not with adequate ventilation ducting. Worse still, the louvres provision are limited by the pre-dominated needs for beautiful windows and the clear headroom is typically low for better GFA. This makes health sector be difficult to find right premises even this asset class is deemed to be the resilient and perform well in R.O.E.

Paradox of “Area” in Building of Hong Kong

There are a ranges of terms from “Usable Floor Area / space – UFA , “Saleable Area – SA ” , “Gross Floor Area – GFA “, ” Internal Floor Area – IFA” , “Common Area – CA”, “Lettable Area – LA ” and “Construction Floor Area – CFA” to describe and present the “area” of the space in numerical way. The confusion of amongst these terms stems from the different definition of their respective legal context, code of practice and the application. In short, “Usable Floor Area” is originated from Buildings Ordinance for population estimation in a proposed space whereas the Saleable area is for property conveyance in First Hand sale. The “Common Area” is the idea coming from Deed of Mutual Covenant and Building Management Ordinance. On the contrary, “Construction Floor Area” is for construction cost estimation and this area covers also the ceiling and wall face area.

Hong Kong Institute of Surveyor has published the “Code of Measuring Practice” MPracticeCode-199903 (1) There has laid some quick understanding to the “area”.

residential area of the city at dusk,bird’s eye view

 

 

Insight from Bloomberg -Share-office markets appears to be crashed by pandemic

GBE keeps abreast with market. Share-office markets appears to be crashed by pandemic. The capex injection for asset enhancement in return for future uplifting the accrual income in book apparently does not work. Office conversion to shared space involving right layout design, positioning the openable window, IT infrastructure, air treatment and circulation, Fireman staircase interchange, Beverage corner, right billboard, right elevator access and washroom facilities. These are all inter-acting factors for successful operation from Professional Building Surveyor

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