HONG-KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - CIVIL ENGINEERING DESIGN

Hong Kong's new airport covers an area of 1248 ha, of which three quar ters has been reclaimed from the sea. This paper describes the civil e ngineering design for the HK$ 50 billion project including the reclama tion, runways, 550 000 m(2) passenger terminal building, ground transp ortation centre and supporting infrastructure. It covers the early sit e selection and the factors affecting the layout of the airport. It de tails the leading role taken by the Authority in the prediction of rec lamation settlement and how this was accounted for in the design and c onstruction of the works. It concludes with a brief description of the wide-ranging environmental initiatives which were applied at all stag es of this massive project.