Teaching Facilities

The laboratory is divided into three key areas: firmware maintenance for IoT devices, 5G mobile communication operations, and IoT terminal testing. It offers a comprehensive experimental environment that facilitates IoT hardware disassembly, firmware extraction, and maintenance. The lab includes advanced 5G communication simulation networks featuring the 5G core network, base stations, and RF terminals, along with testing capabilities for IoT device tags. Additionally, the laboratory is equipped with smart locks, human sensors, and a real-time monitoring platform, creating a fully functional IoT system in practice.

The centre is equipped with a wide range of popular Internet of Things (IoT) main control boards, including Arduino UNO, ESP8266, ESP32, Raspberry Pi, 8051, and other computer chips. It also features an extensive selection of sensors and actuators, such as temperature and humidity sensors, human infrared sensors, ultrasonic sensors, joysticks, and servos. These components enable the implementation of complex and diverse smart home scenarios and smart parking systems. Additionally, the centre is outfitted with various laser radars and cameras, providing students with hands-on opportunities to explore and experience autonomous driving technology.

The Centre provides most advanced teaching facilities, which is equipped with professional hardware and system platforms. The 7m x 2m LED wall facilities visualization and interaction with the virtual cyber world for real-time experiments and training.

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The Centre allows students to interact with virtual and cyber world status in real-time. Moreover, it allows a wide range of teaching and learning activities such as scene simulation, network attack and defense, network invasion and maintenance, competition, research, testing and practice. HKCT cyber range serves as a Hong Kong regional centre of the national-level cyber range, and it has achieved platform interconnection with multiple cross-border cyber ranges.

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HKCT has dedicated resources to build different indoor and outdoor sports facilities, including a fitness room with professional fitness training equipment, a full-mirror Dancing & Fitness Studio and a standard basketball court. Students studying sports-related programmes can improve their personal athleticism and become professional fitness coaches. These recreation and sports facilities are also open to HKCT students in general to encourage them to maintain physical and mental health, strengthen students' sense of belonging.

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Mock-up Cabin is modelled on the training cabins of major airlines which include Economy Class and Business Class. There are 100% real aircraft seats, overhead compartments and trolleys, etc. There is also a counter equipped with the AMADEUS reservation system outside the training cabin, with the aim to enable students studying airline services or hospitality related programmes to familiarise with the functions of the airline computer reservation system.

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Mock-up Hotel Room is built and arranged according to real hotel rooms, with standard equipment such as beds, a TV and a bathroom. Students studying tourism and hospitality can learn in a real environment, build professional knowledge and skills of tidying up guest rooms in a practical manner. The course can help student to enhance their ability in managing staff in different positions of a hotel. Different work positions include tidying up beds, cleaning bathrooms, supplementing room appliances etc, these are also part of the assessment of the tourism related higher diploma programmes of HKCT. There is a mock-up front desk next to the mock-up hotel rooms, equipped with OPERA system, i.e., the front desk management system of major hotels in Hong Kong. This setting help students understand the daily operation of a hotel and familiarise themselves with the actual working mode and skills in advance.

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The setting and decoration of the 'Food and Beverage Training Centre ' is reference designed with the western restaurant of star-rated hotels. Students can familiarise with the environment and operation of a general western restaurant who take programmes related to ‘tourism and hospitality’ and ‘catering services’. For example, western-style culinary training, how to operate a western restaurant, bartending, cooking, menu design, table preparation, dish delivery, and ordering. The kitchen is equipped with all kinds of the latest professional culinary and cooking tools, such as slow-cooking stove and food waste disposer. Apart from the kitchen, the centre included a beverage bar for bartending practice.

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HKCT recognises that creativity thrives in ample space. We provide this studio for students to engage in discussions, brainstorming, and creative pursuits. It is equipped with 3D printers, large-scale printing machines, and flexible partition settings. It is open 24 hours and can be divided into individual studios as needed, allowing students to focus on their graduation projects.

This is a high-definition video production and recording plant with a control room. It adopts a tapeless full HD video camera, which can provide high-definition signals for live TV broadcast and rebroadcast through industry-standard HD-SDI. Students can do a variety of programme production practice, make use of chroma key technology via the blue or green background for adding special effects in post-production stage. Besides, the control room included a set of Sound Mixer. Students can learn sound mixing and editing while recording and post-production. This studio is comparable to the local TV stations.

This Studio is equipped with professional studio equipment including: Nikon SLR camera, 4”x5” large view camera, 120 medium camera, Sony NEX & Panasonic video recorder, lightings, camera flash light, softbox, shoot through umbrella, tungsten light for film and video recording, 9ft x 4ft background stand and tripod.

Dubbing and mixing are common post-production processes in film and television production. This Audio Dubbing Studio, equipped with various mixing and recording equipment, soundproofing room, and industry-standard Audio Pro software, allows students to practice narration, sound mixing and multi-channel recording during their study.

This Laboratory is equipped with an audiovisual recording system and multiple cameras for hybrid learning and teaching support. The live streaming and recording of practical work sessions could facilitate class discussion and enhance both learning and teaching effectiveness.

This Laboratory is equipped with an audiovisual recording system that features one-way mirrors and multiple cameras for students to record their practical work sessions from different angles. The recordings can be replayed to encourage discussions between students and instructor which helps enhance learning effectiveness.

Beauty Practical Room consists of 10 beauty beds, beauty carts, magnifier work lights, skincare products and aromatherapy oil etc. for students to practise the skills of body massage and facial treatment.

Nail Art Practical Room is equipped with a nail art table, nail art desk lamp, UV/LED nail curing lamp, polisher and air brush etc. for students to practice the skills of nail art.

Our Engineering & Construction Lab provides hands-on equipment for engineering and construction students to conduct various experiments and tests. The training includes material testing, structural analysis, energy efficiency evaluation, and more. Students can explore new construction design methods and concepts, as well as assess their feasibility and performance, by utilizing different materials and technologies.

Student Centre is a desirable gathering venue for students to enjoy their leisure time inside campus. It provides a cozy environment with pleasant interactive atmosphere via different facilities and tools, for instances, board games, musical instruments, up-to-date leisure and trendy magazines, and a dart board, for students to enjoy their breaks and interact with classmates. Students can also get contact with or seek individual consultation anytime from DSD (Department of Student Development) team. They are composed of professional social workers or counselors stationing in the Centre. Unlike other institutes, the Student Centre of HKCT adopts semi-open design so that staff is more accessible towards student. Through direct contact opportunities, the staff can understand students' needs and build trust more easily. In order to facilitate students' holistic development, DSD team focus on three work areas for students, namely, "Career Development", "Mental Health and Personal Development" and "Leadership Training", via provision of appropriate activities and services.

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Learning Commons is an extension part of the Academic Pavilion. It provides a creative learning space for student, encourage interactions and learning among students and teachers with the e-resources accessible through the provision of free WiFi here.

Language Centre (LC) provides a cozy environment with its state-of-the-art design and a wealth of language resources where students can immerse in learning language outside the classroom. The facilities include Theatre, Chat Café, Individual Studio, Workshop world and Treasure Island. Theatre: The grand Theatre is an ideal place for watching movies individually or with a group of students. Chat Café: The decently furnished Chat Café, located in the centre of LC, is a signature area where students enjoy sipping a cup of coffee while chatting with our native speakers on daily-life topics. Individual Studio: Our 4 Individual Studios namely London, Paris, Seoul and Tokyo are enclosed areas for students to practise listening and speaking skills with confidence. Workshop World: Interactive workshops on various themes, such as International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and IELTS tactics are held in the stylish honeycomb-designed Workshop World. Treasure Island: A vast array of language resources ranging from dictionaries, readers to movies can be found in Treasure Island, students can also hunt for “Today's Pick”, i.e., the recommended books and videos.

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Academic Pavilion emphasising creativity in the design for the provision of book lending services and study purposes. Different facilities are provided such as self-study carrels, group discussion rooms, display corner and outside reading area, as well as numerous computer workstations that are made available for students to learn and access to abundant information from the Internet and electronic resources in a relaxing atmosphere. Students can freely enjoy academic exchanges and discussions here.

Auditorium is a venue where different large-scale events are held in HKCT, capacity is over 150 people. For instance, examinations, symposiums, school commencement and graduation ceremonies. Moreover, indoor sports activities such as badminton and table tennis can be held.

The Lecture Theatre is equipped with cutting-edge video conference facilities and audio equipment, participants or students' responses can be heard without any hand-held or wireless microphones. Academic exchanges and discussions with foreign scholars over 100 participants via video conferences can be held here.