I Park1 is expected to commission in 2025 and will handle up to 3,000 tons of municipal solid waste per day and generate up to 480 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year – enough to power 100,000 households.

As Hong Kong’s first modern integrated waste management facility, I Park1 aims to reduce the waste bulk by 90 percent and turn waste into energy. Greenhouse gas emissions are estimated to reduce by about 440,000 tons each year.

The main electrical and mechanical equipment modules were prefabricated in Zhuhai using the modular integrated construction approach.

Samuel Tang Wai-kuen, principal environmental protection officer at the Environmental Protection Department, said the MiC method can enhance production efficiency, improve quality control, save costs and reduce construction waste.

“Module prefabrication and engineering works on the artificial island can be done simultaneously,” Tang said.

It took one day to transport the first module by sea from Zhuhai to the artificial island, about five hours to unload the module and about six hours to transport it to the installation point.

The facility comprises of six incineration boiler modules and six flue gas treatment system modules, with a total weight of about 50,000 tons.

The next module will arrive this month and all 12 modules will arrive by autumn.

Tang said the department is also arranging to carry out studies on the environmental impact and technical feasibility regarding the middle ash lagoon Tsang Tsui, Tuen Mun, for the site selection of I Park2. The department will also search for other potential sites suitable for developing waste-to-energy facilities, in order to achieve the goals of “Zero Landfill” and carbon neutrality set out in the Waste Blueprint for Hong Kong 2035 and Hong Kong’s Climate Action Plan 2050.