www.hkbernie.com The CEO did not specify which of the six Blogger horses in the field of 12 will emerge to save the day. It will not be California Memory , who won the last two editions of the race. He, too, is away with physical problems. Still, there are several who could turn the trick with Military Attack primary among them. Military Attack is the reigning Hong Kong Horse of the Year and ended last season with springtime victories in the Audemars Piguet QE II (HK-I) over the course and the Singapore Airlines International Cup (Sing-I) at Kranji.  The construction period was very rushed; specialists considered only a 10–20-year period was sufficient for this massive project. Another cause for this rush was due to the uncertain future of the airport construction after the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China. It was originally believed that Beijing preferred to keep everything basically intact and minimise financial commitments for big projects, therefore stopping all construction despite the need for the new airport. In practice, the airport did not finish in time for the handover. However, China gave an additional year's grace period to finish the project. 10 11 The detailed design for the airport terminal was awarded to a consortium led by Mott Connell (the ?? office of UK consultant Mott MacDonald) with BAA (British Airports Authority) as specialist designers for airport related aspects, Foster and Partners as architects and Ove Arup as specialist structural designers for the roof. Mott Connell were the designers for foundations, all other structural components and the mechanical and electrical work. Project architects were Foster and Partners. The sides of the terminals, predominantly glass, were designed to break during high speed winds, relieving pressure and allowing the terminal to withstand an intense typhoon. 10 In 2007, HKIA began the construction of a two-storey North Satellite Concourse (NSC) which opened in December 2009. 25 This concourse was designed for narrow-body aircraft and is equipped with 10 jet bridges The concourse has a floor area of 20,000 m² and will be able to serve more than five million passengers annually. There is a shuttle bus service between the NSC and Terminal 1 every four minutes. The North Satellite Concourse was built so the airport could accommodate at least 90 percent of its passengers by aerobridges. It has two levels (one for departures and one for arrivals). Architecture firm Aedas designed North Satellite Concourse 26 On 25 January 2011, Airport Authority Hong Kong (AA) unveiled phase 1 of its midfield development project which is targeted for completion by the end of 2015. The midfield area is located to the west of Terminal 1 and between the two existing runways. It is the last piece of land on the airport island available for large-scale development. This will include 20 aircraft parking stands, three of these will be wide enough to serve the Airbus A380 , and cater for an additional 10 million passengers annually. 27 Architecture firm Aedas designed Midfield Concourse 28 Other buildings edit. more info here
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