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Roofing modules for the passenger terminal being built at the new airport are 36 metres long and weigh between 43 and 136 tonnes.
Smoke and dust plumes shooting into the sky mark the last blast in the
excavation and reclamation work that created the airport platform for Hong Kong's new international airport. Contractors moved 10 tonnes of material every second for 31 months to create an airport from the 302-hectare
island of Chek Lap Kok,
and its eight-hectare
neighbour, Lam Chau.
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