Development Projects (Macau and South China) : Day 1: Wynn Macau Behind the scene & Macau heritages

I woke up at 5:45 am this morning and had a wonderful breakfast to get ready for the South China trip in coming 3 days. The duration of the ferry from Hong Kong to Macau is 1 hour only. There are many Hong Kong and Macau people work across the cities everyday.

Wynn Macau Behind the Scene
We were very lucky that we could visit the back of house of Wynn Macau today. Wynn Macau is a luxury resort hotel with casino. It covered 27,000 sqm area with 16 acres casino, 9 F&B outlets 1,000 guest rooms, a retail promenade, a performance rotunda and a performance lake. They have totally 7,500 staffs to serve their customers.

Performance lake: The Wynn Macau facility team prepared an introduction to us and take us to visit their back of house area. We visit the control room of performance lake. Wynn Macau's performance lake has 288 water shooters and over 1,000 LED lights. There are several control panels with small lights to present the status of each water shooter.

Control panel with lighting to show status of each water shooter.

Water shooter with LED lights.

You can see the water shooter underneath the lake.

Lifting platform and track on roof top: The facility team took us to the roof top of the building. There is a big track for lifting platform. It is used for maintenance of building, said cleaning or repair the facade.

Big track on roof top for lifting platform.

Lifting platform

AC room: In AC room, there are many huge chilled water pipes and cooling towers. They use metal raised floor to provide void area for pipe routing underneath the floor. It also provide easy access for maintenance of pipes. For the cooling towers, there are many plastic sheets hanging inside. The plastic sheets are embossed patterns for increase the area of water surfaces, when waters are running on the embossed plastic sheets. It increase the efficiency of cool down process.

Chilled water pipes

Waters are running inside cooling tower.

Plastic sheets inside cooling tower

Embossed pattern on plastic sheets

Raised floor

Generator: Wynn Macau has 7pcs generators for total capacity over 10MVA.

Generator

Transformer: Wynn Macau has total 38pcs transformers to transform electricity.

Transformer

Laundry: Wynn Macau has 7,500 staffs and linen for FOH. They have a laundry system for handling 20,000lb linen and uniforms per day. By using the laundry system, staffs can send dirty uniforms to the system and take the clean uniforms from the system by themselves. The system has tracks for hanging uniforms. Each track connected to a station/door. When staff send the uniform to the station, the system will assign a code for the uniform. When staff take the uniform, the system can deliver the uniform to the station by entering codes.

Stations for staffs manage their uniform. There is a
keypad next to each door for entering uniform codes.

Tracks behind and connected to the stations.

Interior of kitchen: The interior design in kitchen are used durable materials. The corridors are used metal wall finishes. There are many trolleys pass the corridors, the metal wall finishes are not easy be damaged when trolleys crashed to it. The doors are used thick plastic and installed as an arch to lower the momentum when trolley crashed to the doors.

Metal wall finishes at corridor

Thick plastic with arch installation.

Performance rotunda: Wynn Macau has a popular performance rotunda show, which the round ceiling can be opened and a dragon or tree can be raise up from the floor. The show lasted for 15mins and happened every half hour. The control include mixed control system, AV system, PLC, inverters and mechanical parts. We visit both the mechanical areas above the ceiling and underneath the floor.

Mechanical above the ceiling.

View of the ceiling during show.

The dragon in mechanical room underneath the floor.

The dragon raised from the floor during show.

It's so interesting to visit the BOH of a luxury hotel and casino. Seems every little thing has it's own system and everything is huge. Especially the mechanical rooms, the AC chilled water pipes, the generators, the transformers, are very big and systemic. It give me an introduction of the operation of such huge service buildings.

Macau Residence and Heritages

Macau is a small city which the area is only 30 kmsq (1/4 of Hong Kong). The streets are very narrow and some of them are slope. Motor vehicle is a popular local transportation, eispecially scooters. It can pass through the narrow streets in this small city. It's easy to see office ladies with formal dressing are taking scooters in peak hour.

Even the growth of casinos and hotels give Macau new appearance every year, it didn't affect some of the living environment of local Macanese. We can see there are many traditional local shops and old public facilities.

Motor bikes are popular due to small place.

The roads are narrow

Leisure space

Public fitness

It always has water dropped on your head when you are walking
on the street, as water leakage of air conditioners are popular.

Traditional shops can still alive.

Portugal style buildings are everywhere in Macau, as Macau was managed by Portugal since 16 century. Macau do very good on maintenance of heritages and the job didn't end.

Portugal style buildings are everywhere

St. Augustine's Church: It built at 16 century by a Spanish Augustinian. It is a simple version of traditional Roman Catholic Basilicas style church. St. Augustine's Church is still in use and it carry out Jesus statue parade every year.

St. Augustine's Church outlook

The columns and ceilings are Basilica style

Jesus statue in St. Augustine's Church

Floor in St. Augustine's Church

Dom Pedro V Theater: It built at 18 century. It is the first western style theater in China and under the UNESCO World Heritage List. The facade of the entrance has few Ionic Order column and Rome Arch. Dom Pedro V Theater is still in use. The day when we visited the theater, there is holding a show and we see many little girls are dress up.

Dom Pedro V Theater with Ionic Order columns and Rome Arch.

The interior is very luxury and classic

Even the false ceiling cut out pattern.

Feature door

The stage of the theater

There are two floors in the theater.

There is holding a show when we visit.

Heritages near Largo do Senado (A central plaza in Macau)

Largo do Senado: It is a popular sightseeing spot. There are many heritages, museums, government buildings and a shopping promenade. All the buildings are rich Spanish architecture style. Macau government renovated the buildings for government operation and retails shops. Macau government take advantage of the old buildings to attract tourists and maintain the local architecture culture. Nowadays, the modern architecture over the countries are seems standardized and loss local culture. Revitalize old buildings help to maintain local architecture culture and history.

Largo do Senado

Macau General Post Office used for many years

Macau Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau

Wall finishes in Macau Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau

An old building rented by a famous local cake shop.

An old pharmacy building rented by a modern pharmacy.

An old building rented by a shoes shops.

An old building rented by a fashion retail shops.

Casa de Lou Kau: It built at 18 century. It is a residential of a businessman, Mr. Lou. The floor plan is a Fung Shui design with main entrance partition and two courtyards. It is mainly Chinese architecture style building mixed Western style colour glazed windows and feature ceiling.

Casa de Lou Kau outlook

Gate of main entrance

Partition at main entrance is a Fung Shui design.

Feature above the door mixed Chinese and Western style.

Coloured glaze windows are Western style.

Fortaleza do Monte: It is an old artillery battery in Western style. It is a popular sightseeing spot in Macau. It located with Macau Museum and a garden. It is at the top of a hill where can look over the Macau city.

Entrance of Fortaleza do Monte

Macau museum

One of the old artillery batteries which is not function now.
It becomes spot for tourists take photo.

Macau aerial view from Fortaleza do Monte

There is no barriers at the border, but only a yellow line. It do not have
accident at all. (If it is Hong Kong, the management must build a barrier.)

Macau government do a lot works on renovate and maintenance of old buildings to maintain the culture of Macau and enhance attraction of tourism. It is obvious to see the renovation work is processing (Buildings at the same street, half are renovated and the other half are waiting for renovate.)