Penny’s Bay Reclamation Phase 1

Project Description

Penny’s Bay Reclamation is carried out in two stages to provide a 280 hectares land for the development of the Hong Kong Disneyland International Theme Park.

Phase 1 is one of the largest reclamation projects of all time in Hong Kong. It covers the reclamation and ground treatment of about 200 hectares of land with associated seawalls, temporary access roads and drainage. In the course of reclamation, about 67 million m3 of fill was imported and about 42 million m3 of unsuitable material was removed from the reclamation site.

Deep compaction of engineering sand fill by vibroflotation method, and installation of geotechnical instrumentation system to monitor the performance of the ground improvement works by deep compaction.  

– Deep compaction: (a) compaction depth 42m, (b) compaction volume 40 millions m3