Post-Renovation Formaldehyde Removal at SFC Headquarters

When Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission moved from Central to One Island East in Quarry Bay, the freshly renovated nine-storey office came with an unwelcome housewarming gift: acrid formaldehyde and VOCs off-gassing from construction materials and new furniture. The smell hit you at the door. For a regulatory body responsible for market integrity, asking employees to work in a chemically contaminated environment wasn't an option.

RHT installed RH-220 duct-mount NCCO units across all nine floors. Unlike activated carbon, which masks odours temporarily then re-releases them when the media saturates, the NCCO reactor decomposes formaldehyde and VOCs into harmless water vapour and CO₂. SFC staff moved in on schedule and into air that was already clean — no waiting period, no compromise on health.