On a regular day we walk past huge hotel lobbies, check in our bags, purchase food from the restaurants within the building but never realize that a bunch of people work really hard to put everything together.
Today I got to see the 'behind the scenes' part of the beautiful facades, stainless walls and floors, and shiny lights of the venetian.
Today I got to see the 'behind the scenes' part of the beautiful facades, stainless walls and floors, and shiny lights of the venetian.
The Venetian
Kitchen - 1500 employees (600 per shift ) 63 chefs, the venetian provides food for all their staff including those of the 4 seasons hotel, but the 4 seasons pay the venetian about 2 million Macau Dollars for this service.
Staff Uniform - Each employee has about 4 uniforms, they stand in front of the automatic door, key in their staff code and their uniform is delivered to them. I wondered how accurate this system might be, but the coolest part is that each uniform has a ship in it that registers your staff code with you particular size, so the system hardly ever makes a mistake. Back at the assortment of these uniforms one member would handle 2000 uniforms a day with 24 employees handling the wardrobes. the dirty laundries fall out from the shoot into these huger blue bins, and they are emptied trice daily.
The Facilities center- Time is money, so the attendance to issues in the gaming room takes about 15mins to fix while the rest of the hotel takes up to 40 mins. They receive about 500 calls a day, 1300 maintenance requests in total from the sand coati central hotel, sands and the venetian. Now the facilities center is hidden deep within the building without any windows, makes me wonder if looking at screens for long hours in a day can affect a person health.
MEP -
This section shares the same office as the facilities center, but Like I said before the world is leaning towards an energy stand point and now most of these hotels have initiated the 'key card turn on electricity' system. But with all measures taken the utility bill for the venetian is about 20 million a month!
The Transformers - creates 11kv which distributes power to all the air conditioners in the hotel only. During the winter the bill drops to about 30%.
The operating chillers, are 12 total with 6 pairs with a 200kW motor pump. The chilled water pump is insulted because it's 5 degrees inside and the environment is about 60 degrees, so to prevent condensation the insulation is very important. The cooling tower has low and high speed; high in the warmer months and vice versa in the cooler months.
Staff Uniform - Each employee has about 4 uniforms, they stand in front of the automatic door, key in their staff code and their uniform is delivered to them. I wondered how accurate this system might be, but the coolest part is that each uniform has a ship in it that registers your staff code with you particular size, so the system hardly ever makes a mistake. Back at the assortment of these uniforms one member would handle 2000 uniforms a day with 24 employees handling the wardrobes. the dirty laundries fall out from the shoot into these huger blue bins, and they are emptied trice daily.
The Facilities center- Time is money, so the attendance to issues in the gaming room takes about 15mins to fix while the rest of the hotel takes up to 40 mins. They receive about 500 calls a day, 1300 maintenance requests in total from the sand coati central hotel, sands and the venetian. Now the facilities center is hidden deep within the building without any windows, makes me wonder if looking at screens for long hours in a day can affect a person health.
MEP -
This section shares the same office as the facilities center, but Like I said before the world is leaning towards an energy stand point and now most of these hotels have initiated the 'key card turn on electricity' system. But with all measures taken the utility bill for the venetian is about 20 million a month!
The Transformers - creates 11kv which distributes power to all the air conditioners in the hotel only. During the winter the bill drops to about 30%.
The operating chillers, are 12 total with 6 pairs with a 200kW motor pump. The chilled water pump is insulted because it's 5 degrees inside and the environment is about 60 degrees, so to prevent condensation the insulation is very important. The cooling tower has low and high speed; high in the warmer months and vice versa in the cooler months.
The older parts of the city
The Lou Kau mansion, located at No.7 Travessa de Se, is a typical Chinese courtyard house. It has a symmetric arrangement, three halls which are separated by courtyards in between forming a three-by-three grid layout.
The three halls in the house are respectively known as Entrance hall, Tea Hall and Senior Hall, and they are aligned in a row, accompanying the central axis of the mansion. This spatial arrangement demonstrates the hierarchical structure of families where the spaces further inside the house are usually reserved for ancestral worship or for senior members with high degree of privacy and away from the view of guests. The main entrance is located at the front façade whilst the back doors are accessible via passageways that run along the sides.
Entrance: Two sides of the main entrance employ stone bars as a doorframe and moulding. This provides good conditions to shelter from wind, rain and sun, also enhancing the central axis of the building, giving the general outlook of the building a strong aesthetic appearance.
Exterior wall: Grey Bricks, the base wall of the exterior façade is constructed with granite.
The three halls in the house are respectively known as Entrance hall, Tea Hall and Senior Hall, and they are aligned in a row, accompanying the central axis of the mansion. This spatial arrangement demonstrates the hierarchical structure of families where the spaces further inside the house are usually reserved for ancestral worship or for senior members with high degree of privacy and away from the view of guests. The main entrance is located at the front façade whilst the back doors are accessible via passageways that run along the sides.
Entrance: Two sides of the main entrance employ stone bars as a doorframe and moulding. This provides good conditions to shelter from wind, rain and sun, also enhancing the central axis of the building, giving the general outlook of the building a strong aesthetic appearance.
Exterior wall: Grey Bricks, the base wall of the exterior façade is constructed with granite.