Some public facilities at the expo site will be moved to other dominant places in Shanghai following the six-month function halts in October, including the drinking h2o fountains, mist sprayers and cell based toilets which have won praise from visitors, a senior expo official said yesterday.
Some other facilities will be auctioned, including the more than 110,000 stone benches near to the site, each of which includes a Haibao image, Xi Qunfeng, director of the Facility and Environment Management Department of the expo bureau, informed a mass advertising conference yesterday.
Meanwhile, some international pavilions are preparing to donate parts of the pavilions\\’ high-tech or wonderful construction product and displays for the Shanghai Charity bottom following the Expo. Bicycles at the Denmark Pavilion and the rattan covering the Spain Pavilion are anticipated to be near to the donation list, the bottom revealed yesterday.
Exhibits will go to collectors through charity auctions while business office supplies in pavilions will be donated directly to schools for migrant children. Proceeds through the auctions will be implemented to boost healthcare treatment in remote villages, officials said.
The 112 drinking h2o fountains plus more than 10,000 wc cubicles at the expo site topped the checklist of facilities most admired by visitors, in accordance to some recent survey by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The machine, developed by regional universities for the Expo, uses cutting edge technologies to be sure h2o safety. The city\\’s food security authority inspected the h2o in the machines round the clock and has found out no obstacle considering the expo opened on May 1.
The h2o fountains is often reinstalled at People\\’s Square following the Expo, said Xi.
The cell based toilets, near to one other hand, is often implemented for large exhibitions, such considering the city\\’s biennial car show.
The mist sprayers that decrease temps by more than 5 degrees Celsius in expo holding out places is often implemented at city tourism spots. The sprayers have already been installed at the holding out area of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower.
Meanwhile, amid the city\\’s constant warm and wet season, the expo organizer has inspected the flood prevention method at the site. 4 drainage systems, constructed exclusively for the Expo, and which are independent through the city\\’s unique drainage system, would make sure that no h2o is gathered anywhere in the site, Xi said.
To cope while using constant heat wave, the organizer has asked all pavilions to change their oxygen conditioners to slightly higher temps to prevent site visitors from catching a cold simply due to the of the huge temperature difference. The oxygen conditioners should be adjusted no decrease than 22 degrees Celsius.
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