HONG KONG

Hong Kong highrise: back to th To beat the spiralling land prices and
reduce the existing pressure
on land in the country, the
government of Hong Kong is
looking towards various
alternatives, and caves happen to be one of them. Only
these would be caves with a
difference. The government
is planning to use a new technology to build a massive
subterranean cavern including a waste transfer plant in
the side of Mount Davis.
This area has a granite
bedrock, which makes it a
suitable site for the project.

The project, which is
going to cost us $640 million
to build and us $56 million a
year to maintain, will be the
size of 10 Olympic swimming pools. Special odour
removal equipment will also
be installed in the cavern.
"The arrangement will result
in environmental benefits as
well as economic advantage
through releasing other
pieces of valuable land in the
urban area for alternative development," enthuses
Mike Stokoe, deputy director
of the environmental protection department in Hong Kong.