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    Beijing's new airport

    There was an article about it on CNN last night.

    Twice the size of LHR T5 and built in four years at half the cost.

    Total airport capacity will be about 20% bigger than LHR total.

    Apparently it's built in the shape of a dragon and designed by a Brit.

    Although it did displace some 10,000 people from their homes.

    Anyone else seen anything about it?

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    Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
    There was an article about it on CNN last night.

    Twice the size of LHR T5 and built in four years at half the cost.

    Total airport capacity will be about 20% bigger than LHR total.

    Apparently it's built in the shape of a dragon and designed by a Brit.

    Although it did displace some 10,000 people from their homes.

    Anyone else seen anything about it?
    One of the major factors with T5 though was the environment. They actually manufactured a lot of the materials on site rather than transport them etc...

    I did a tour there while working for BAA and it was very impressive.....
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      #3
      Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
      Although it did displace some 10,000 people from their homes.
      I hope they relocated the 10,000 people and didn't just kill them like they did that poor bloody dolphin!

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        #4
        there was a large article in the Telegraph today - I wonder if it is online?

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          #5
          Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
          There was an article about it on CNN last night.

          Twice the size of LHR T5 and built in four years at half the cost.

          Total airport capacity will be about 20% bigger than LHR total.

          Apparently it's built in the shape of a dragon and designed by a Brit.

          Although it did displace some 10,000 people from their homes.

          Anyone else seen anything about it?
          Well of course it was half the cost.

          It was built by Chinese workers who are paid 15 pence an hour (and no, that's not a joke)

          tim

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            #6
            Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
            there was a large article in the Telegraph today - I wonder if it is online?
            http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../wchina127.xml

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              #7
              Originally posted by tim123 View Post
              Well of course it was half the cost.

              It was built by Chinese workers who are paid 15 pence an hour (and no, that's not a joke)

              tim
              Good point but what's the cost of living there?
              Seriously - I have a few mates in Africa and their salaries converted straight to £ are ridiculously low - but the cost of living is too, so it roughly equates.

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                #8
                Originally posted by realityhack View Post
                the cost of living is too, so it roughly equates.
                The cost of life in those countries is pretty low too.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Pondlife View Post

                  Apparently it's built in the shape of a dragon and designed by a Brit.
                  The rather tiresome, Sir Norman Foster
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
                    I hope they relocated the 10,000 people and didn't just kill them like they did that poor bloody dolphin!
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