Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

Hong Kong Museum of Art, the first public art museum in the city, is located in Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront. It was established in 1962 and has now over 17,000 items in its collection. When its Leisure and Cultured Services Department was in need of a major renovation, Tremco CPG Hong Kong was selected to supply the flooring job.

Prior to the application of floor covering, Isocrete K-Screed was applied throughout the museum’s main building together with Isocrete Polymer 70 and Isocrete 1500 to create a 20,000m² super-flat substrate to receive the final tile finish. Isocrete K-Screed is a semi-dry cementitious screed system that incorporates a proprietary additive to produce an early drying, high-strength screed. These properties greatly speed up the process of applying the screed without sacrificing on critical structural and functional properties, offering a distinct advantage to large-scale development.

Over 3,800m² of Flowcoat SF41 2mm, an environmentally friendly solvent-free, chemical and abrasion-resistant epoxy coating system, was used for the museum’s back of house and plant rooms to produce a hard wearing, seamless, and easy to clean surface. For the loading bay, 200m² of SF41 3mm was applied.

The flooring installation was completed within 9 months, and the newly renovated Leisure and Cultured Services Department was ready to welcome guests in early 2020.