Day #29 Wednesday

We went for a field trip in the afternoon after lunch. The site was quite near to our campus, about 15 minutes ride. The site is a new condominium residential area, with various good and unique features which can rarely be found in Singapore’s condo.
The site has a car park basement. The basement can be separated into 4 compartments and doors connecting the 4 compartments can be closed at anytime during fire so prevent the fire from spreading out. The ventilation ducts are also fire-rated (able to withstand fire). I think the fire-resistance method they used is “Solid protection” which gives 0.5 hour to 4 hours fire resistance. There is a step-up staircase before entering the basement, because the staircase acts as a barrier, in case of any flood situation, water will not flow in directly into the basement. The door securing the basement is also fire-proof and explosion-resistance.


The buildings also feature Green Technology / Environmental Friendly. They have roof top garden and special outer wall to keep warm/prevent coldness for the building.

Upon entering the one of the units, there’s a open space between the door and the living room. This is for ventilation purpose and for relaxing purposes. Their toilet is 300mm below the floor level, as to fit in various sanitary parts. In the kitchen, there’s a special duct which can be installed with a hood that can sucks/vacuums out the unburned carbon monoxide expelled when cooking using LPG. In Kitchen and toilet, the ducts connecting to upper/lower floor are equipped with a fire-proof ring at both top and bottom of the ducts to prevent fire from spreading to adjacent units through the ducts.

Also note that that lift in the building does not have “level 4”. Perhaps this is due to the Chinese belief that “4” is not a good number. (sounds like 死, die). There are 3 units every level but the corridor is somehow narrow. The building features a “scissors staircase”, which means there’re 2 staircases intercepting each other, allowing more people to use during emergency. The buildings have security features which are quite similar to Singapore’s.

One unit of the condo is about 800k RMB.

The site trip ended and we went back to hostel. Stopped by opposite campus to settle “lunch” at around 4pm. Went home, slept and dinner @ Houcaller again. This was the second day I ate there consecutively. Order another kind of steak, and I am lucky enough to have a double-yolk egg and my beef steak was somehow big and my spaghetti is quite a lot.
As today is April 1st, which is the legendary April Fool day. The girls performed a stunning, brilliant, 2 thumbs up show. Actually, this was the very first April fool joke I have ever experienced in my life la. I used to have those mini jokes only, never such big-screen-drama.