Project Description

The new office for the Hong Kong International Airport is a 6-storey building. Its proposed location over the existing taxi staging area meant that there were many site constraints with space, construction timeframe and site access.

Project Challenges

With specialist expertise in construction engineering RBG was engaged to develop different construction systems for this building including a feasibility study on adopting prefabricated modular construction system.
The feasibility study included transportation study to site, identification of temporary works associated with the construction of the proposed office building including tower crane locations to determine the impact of temporary works on the taxi staging area and the overall airport operations. Construction solutions that were developed included:

• Traditional concrete construction that was used as the base case for comparison
• Precast concrete system
• Steel framed system with composite floor
• Modular systems

RBG’s scope include developing concept drawings for each construction system and 4D sequencing to illustrate one of the required construction methodologies.