The new Transport Department Vehicle Examination Complex, TDVEC, is the latest construction of Hong Kong to carry out vehicle examination by Transport Department. The TDVEC project is a multi-storey functional building which comprises 30 inspection lanes with other vehicle inspection and testing facilities. This project is a reprovision project for the existing 3 current vehicle examination centres, namely the Kowloon Bay VEC, New Kowloon Bay VEC and To Kwa Wan VEC, and combining all examination operations of these 3 centres into one centralized building. The design handling capacity of the new VEC at Tsing Yi is 1000 vehicles per day.

The TDVEC is a building with unique and specific function that is of an unprecedented scale in the world for building of this type. The challenge is huge to create a building that is capable of housing all those complex function in relatively small and irregular site with a lot of site constraints. Efficiency is of utmost importance to handle the daily influx of vehicles. To accommodate the sheer operational space within the irregularly shaped and congested site, the team has devised an innovative driveway arrangement – double helical ramp to resolve the vertical vehicle traffic as well as eliminating the potential vehicular conflict due to head-on traffic in most vehicle-oriented building. The façade design is inspired by the metaphor of fully synchronized machines which endow this ultra utilitarian building with unique identity.