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BEAM PLUS FOR EXISTING BUILDINGS INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (IEQ)
V ERSION 1.2 IEQ 23 AMENITY F EATURES
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 balconies;
 wider common corridors and lift lobbies;
 communal sky gardens; and
 communal podium gardens.
In addition [3]:
 mail delivery rooms with mailboxes; and
 communal sky gardens for non-residential buildings.
Other features include:
 land or area within a building for use as public passage [4];
 space within the site for recreational use by neighbours and/or
visitors [5, 6];
 prestige entrances such as large voids in front of cinema and theatre
balconies, in banking halls and shopping arcades, entrance lobbies,
etc [7];
 air-conditioning plant rooms with 1% or more of the total floor area of
a building, air handling units with 4% or more of the GFA of each
floor;
 enhanced standards of lift services [8]; and
 communications systems [9].
Projects such as wall boxes or platforms, window cills, flower boxes, etc.,
of prescribed dimensions [10].
Canopies, balconies, air-conditioner platforms, etc., need to be properly
designed and constructed [11].
BACKGROUND Amenity features are loosely defined as those elements of design that,
whilst not statutory requirements are desirable to improve the standard
and quality of a building. To encourage these features, the Building
Authority is prepared to consider modification and exemption, under the
Buildings Ordinance and Regulations, for the provision of new amenities
in both new developments and existing buildings .
3 Buildings Department, Land Department, Planning Department. Joint Practice Note No. 2. Second Package of Incentives
to Promote Green and Innovative Buildings
4 Buildings Department. Practice Note for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered Geothenical
Engineers, PNAP No. APP-108 Dedication of Land/Area for Use as Public Passage.
5 Lands Administration Office, Lands Department. Practice Note 4/2000. Recreational Facilities in Domestic Development.
6 Buildings Department. Practice Note for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered
Geotechnical Engineers, PNAP No. APP-104 Exclusion of Floor Areas for Recreational Use.
7 Buildings Department. Practice Note for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered
Geotechnical Engineers, PNAP No. APP-2 Calculation of Gross Floor Area and Non-accountable Gross Floor Area
Building (Planning) Regulations 23(3) (a) and (b).
8 Buildings Department. Practice Note for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered
Geotechnical Engineers, PNAP NO. APP-89 Provision of better lift service.
9 Buildings Department. Practice Note for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered Geotehnical
Engineers, PNAP NO. APP-84 Access Facilities for Telecommunications and Broadcasting Services.
10 Buildings Department. Practice Note for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered
Geotechnical Engineers, PNAP No. APP-19 Projections in relation to site coverage and plot ratio Building (Planning)
Regulations 20 & 21.
11 Buildings Department. Practice Note for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered
Geotechnical Engineers, PNAP No. APP-68 Design and Construction of Cantilevered Projecting Structures.