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**SoftrermaBioniaSat** · 04-01-2008, 10:42 AM

Hong Kong's new airport was built on land reclaimed from the sea and the whole terminal is built on huge shock absorbers miles away from the old airport - so of course they were going to have problems

The issues at HKIA were nothing to do with it being on land reclaimed from the sea; it opened late, way over budget and for the first few months was pretty horrendous to use because of the new technologies it was implementing.

Humanity has centuries of experience in reclaiming land, it doesn't have that when it comes to implementing new technologies hence the problems shared by Hong Kong and London, nobody will care or remember over the coming months, just like with Hong Kong, Paris, Singapore.....

04-01-2008, 10:42 AM	#29
SoftrermaBioniaSat Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 404 Senior Member	Hong Kong's new airport was built on land reclaimed from the sea and the whole terminal is built on huge shock absorbers miles away from the old airport - so of course they were going to have problems The issues at HKIA were nothing to do with it being on land reclaimed from the sea; it opened late, way over budget and for the first few months was pretty horrendous to use because of the new technologies it was implementing. Humanity has centuries of experience in reclaiming land, it doesn't have that when it comes to implementing new technologies hence the problems shared by Hong Kong and London, nobody will care or remember over the coming months, just like with Hong Kong, Paris, Singapore.....
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