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Tallest building on Chek Lap Kok takes shape
The tallest structure on Chek Lap Kok, the site for Hong Kong's new airport, has now taken shape.
Towering 78.6 metres over the flat landscape of the 1,248-hectare airport platform, the building, which will function as the future Air Traffic Control Tower, is the most visible structure on the site.
At the other end of the scale is a tiny patch of lawn which few visitors to Chek Lap Kok would even notice. To the casual observer there would be nothing very remarkable about the fenced-off site with several pieces of meteorological equipment inside, apart from the fact that it is the only patch of grass on the desert-like island.
But the lawn marks the site of the Royal Observatory's Automatic Weather Station which has the distinction of being the first facility for the new airport to be completed and operational.
The Air Traffic Control Tower and its adjacent complex together with the Automatic Weather Station were two of the government facilities highlighted during a media visit to Chek Lap Kok today (Wednesday).
"Construction of the various government facilities at the new airport at Chek Lap Kok is moving ahead rapidly," said the Chief Architect of the Architectural Services Department, Mr Peter Yuen.
The Air Traffic Control Complex and Tower have recently taken shape, just one year after works began.
The progress of construction of the control tower project and other government facilities at Chek Lap Kok was outlined to media representatives by Mr Yuen.
He said construction of the $360 million Air Traffic Control Complex and Tower is scheduled for completion in December next year.
The complex is a seven-storey building with curtain walls. It will accommodate all equipment and personnel needed to operate the air traffic control function of the new airport, workshops, offices for the Civil Aviation Department and the Royal Observatory, as well as emergency power generation equipment.
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