Construction work on Beijing’s Daxing International
Airport in China, world’s largest integrated transportation hub has been
completed.
The Beijing’s Daxing International Airport located
in Daxing district in Hebei Province, approximately 46 kilometers south of
Beijing, China was constructed at a cost of US $13bn with a starfish-shaped
structure.
This building structure was designed by the
legendary British-Iraqi
architect Zaha Hadid together
with the engineering subsidiary of Aeroports de Paris and
has been under construction since 2014 on a 700 000-m2 piece of land
making it the second-largest single building terminal in the world after
Istanbul Airport.
Other than being the world’s largest integrated
transportation hub Beijing Daxing international airport is the world’s largest
terminal built with a seamless steel structure, boasting the world’s first
design of double-deck departure and double-deck arrival platforms, according to
Bai Henghong, the project director with the Beijing Construction Group.
The new Daxing airport is designed in such a way
that passengers from 28 cities will be able to access it within 19 minutes by
use of high speed train travelling at 350km/h. upon arrival, the passengers
shall find a 700,000-m2 terminal and 80,000-m2 ground
transportation centre connected to five courtyards which snake out from the
primary hall. There will be five traditional gardens for passengers to wait for
their flights as well.
The airport also comprises of one passenger
handling centre rather than several terminals as it is with the modern
airports. According to the designers, this was borrowed from traditional
Chinese architecture that organizes interconnected spaces around a central
courtyard and it is meant to minimize the building’s environmental footprint.
The airport is expected to begin operations before the end of September, after a total of 787 tests are carried out involving 500 flights and some 52,000 simulated passenger trips. It will be opened with four runways that can be expanded up to eight as passenger numbers grow.https://constructionreviewonline.com/2019/07/construction-worlds-largest-integrated-transportation-hub-complete/
