29 julho 2013

Hong Kong's International Airport - Building Chek Lap Kok IA

Opened on 6 July 1998, it took six years and US$20 billion to build. According to the Guinness World Records the project is the most expensive airport project ever completed.


Join us, and Discovery Channel, in this project of Extreme Engineering







Chek Lap Kok was an island in the western waters of Hong Kong. Together with the smaller Lam Chau, it was leveled and merged via land reclamation into the platform for the current Hong Kong International Airport, which opened for commercial operations in 1998.

Construction of the new airport was only part of the Airport Core Programme, which also involved construction of new road and rail links to the airport, with associated bridges and tunnels, and major land reclamation projects on both Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon.

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