As the Innovation Facilitator of the Government, the EMSD has been committed to collaborating with its clients to promote customer-oriented innovative services. One of our recent initiatives is the introduction of the regenerative media filter system to the Lai Chi Kok Park Swimming Pool managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD), with a view to enhancing the filtration capacity and efficiency of the swimming pool and improving the quality of pool water.
Adopting regenerative filtration technology and using perlite as the filtration media, the system is capable of filtering impurities as small as one micrometre, demonstrating excellent filtration efficiency. It also eliminates the need for backwashing as adopted in conventional sand filters, thus reducing water and electricity consumption, as well as minimising the risk faced by workers as they no longer need to work in confined spaces. In addition, the system takes up less space, which significantly shortens the time required for replacement work and brings down the impact on public services.
Being the successful result of our collaboration with the LCSD, the swimming pool upgrading project fully embodies the two main strategies “Providing Customer-oriented Innovative Services” and “Strengthening Innovative Collaboration between Stakeholders” of the third Five-year Strategic Plan of the Electrical and Mechanical Services Trading Fund. By providing the innovative solution to the client, we help them enhance service quality and foster public understanding of the development and application of I&T while facilitating the realisation of I&T solutions. Looking ahead, we will persist in the implementation of more I&T solutions to bring benefits to the general public.
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