The Dutch engineering firm NACO (Netherlands Airport Consultants), the winning master plan for the newly built airport in the Chinese capital Beijing.
New Beijing International Airport, the largest airport in the world, with eight runways and an ultimate capacity of 130 million passengers per year. The airport will be in area roughly as large as the area within the ring road of Amsterdam.
The existing Beijing airport, Beijing Capital International Airport is the busiest one in the world with 74 million passengers in 2010. By comparison airport processed 45 million passengers last year. The coming years, the Beijing airport reach its maximum capacity and will require an airport to be built.
Terminal 3
NACO, part of engineering consultancy DHV, has been active in China since 1984. The company was involved in the development of more than twenty airports in the country.
NACO has designed the massive Terminal 3 at Beijing Airport today. That terminal was just before the Olympics opened.
The new airport is south of downtown Beijing in the Daxing district, to lie.
Sustainable
NACO says they have won partly by the design of infrastructure around the airport.
"A dense network of public transport, with an HSL line, metro and train to the other airports. There were the Chinese people very happy," said Rik Krabbendam, Director of NACO.
The design also has a durable aspect: the distance the aircraft must taxi is as short as possible, reducing CO2 emissions. In 2017 New Beijing International Airport to be operational.
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