浮屋的重建工程現已完成，觀鳥屋以及通往該觀鳥屋的木橋路段現已重新開放。是次重建工程是由WWF香港觀鳥大賽籌得的善款資助，並得到WWF前米埔管理委員會成員，米埔教育中心及訪客中心的建築師，本身亦是熱心觀鳥者的米湛士先生就觀鳥屋的設計提供寶貴意見。
米埔的野外工作團隊共用了3.5個月完成整個重建工程：先把舊觀鳥屋拆毀，經水路將主要結構運回米埔南面的直昇機坪重建，完成後再經水路拖回泥灘原址。
重建後的觀鳥屋改善了通風，亦在觀鳥屋後方增加了座椅及掛鉤供訪客放置背包或行李。另外，在觀鳥屋正前方近地面位置亦增設了窗門，讓攝影者可在水平線拍攝泥灘的水鳥。
Revamp of the Southern Floating Hide is completed. Both the hide and the boardwalk section leading to the hide are now reopened to the public. The revamp was made possible through funds raised from the Big Bird Race 2015. WWF is honored to have received technical advice on the hide’s design from Mike Chalmers, who is our former Mai Po Management Committee member, the architect of 2 Mai Po Centres, and a keen bird watcher!
It took the Mai Po field staff a total of 3.5 months to complete the project. This involved dismantling the old hide, bringing the floating platform back to the helicopter pad at Southern Mai Po for rebuild, and final tow back to its original location.
New features include improved ventilation, more seats, hooks installed at the back of the hide for visitor to place their belongings, and 2 floor height shutters for photographers to take picture of waterbirds closer to the ground / bird eye level.
