Hong Kong Regulations

BUILDING (ENERGY EFFICIENCY) REGULATION - SECT 2

Interpretation

In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires-

"commercial buildings" (商業建築物) includes offices, shops, department
stores, places of public entertainment, places of public assembly, restaurants
and any other buildings used for commercial purposes, but does not include
hotels, domestic premises, industrial buildings, schools, carparks, places
used for bulk storage and utility buildings such as power stations and
sub-stations;

"external wall" (外牆) means an outer wall of a building and includes a wall
adjoining a wall of another building but does not include a wall or part of a
wall which is underground;

"hotel" (旅館) has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the Hotel and 
Guesthouse Accommodation Ordinance ( Cap 349);

"overall thermal transfer value" (總熱傳送值) means, as regards a
building, the amount, expressed in watts per square metre (W/m2), of heat
transferred through that building envelope and calculated having regard to
factors such as the area of the building envelope, the material used in its
construction, thermal properties of the material, orientation of the building,
the area of the openings in the building envelope and the shading effect of
projections from the building envelope;

"refuge floor" (庇護層) means a protected floor that serves as a refuge for
the occupants of the building to assemble in case of fire. (Enacted 1995)

"commercial buildings" (商業建築物)

"external wall" (外牆)

"hotel" (旅館)

"overall thermal transfer value" (總熱傳送值)

"refuge floor" (庇護層)