The redevelopment of the Housing Bureau’s (HI) headquarters in Patane, which was demolished and rebuilt on the same site in 2019 due to its inadequate capacity, was expected to be completed next January, the Public Works Bureau (DSOP) has noted, with a total cumulative sum for the whole project to be more than 470 million patacas.
According to the DSOP website last week, the piling work for redevelopment of the building, which had been used for nearly 30 years, was completed in January 2022, while work on the basement and superstructure of the building commenced in August of the same year and are scheduled for completion in January next year. The basement and superstructure work of the building were awarded for more than 257.01 million patacas. The work had been delayed by 14 working days in 2022 due to Macau’s second COVID-19 outbreak.
The Housing Bureau headquarters nearing completion is located on Travessa Norte do Patane ((F١ڈ❊Y٪_+ر), with a site area of about 1,430 square metres and a total gross floor area of about 26,000 square metres over 23 floors plus two basement floors, complete with a reception area, offices, conference rooms, and a carpark.
As the redevelopment project has entered the final stage of the interior fit-out, the Public Works Bureau will hand over the project to the Housing Bureau for commencement of the fitting-out work, which, according to its open tenders launched in June this year, cost 113.84 million patacas for 398 working days of the whole fit-out project, with an additional of 2.84 million patacas as the design cost.
This file photo taken by the Public Works Bureau (DSOP) in June shows the redevelopment project of the Housing Bureau headquarters in Patane.
