With foundation work started in early 2022, YTO’s Jiaxing Skyhub is taking its huge shape along with the construction of Jiaxing airport’s new runways, taxiways, and apron spaces. This SAAN-master planned mega air cargo hub will be one of the largest in China. This huge cargo center will be the main tenant of Jiaxing’s newly […]
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This project sits next to a mega-hospital in a high-density metropolitan area with a severe parking shortage, hotels, restaurants, and retail. Co-developed by the local government and a private landowner, this project will provide a high-density solution to include parking, hotels, retail, offices, and housing. Using parking garages (a total of 7 floors) as podiums
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China General Aviation Co. (CGA) is located at the southern end of runway 34L at Tianjin Binhai International Airport, TSN. The CGA HQ campus consists of twelve buildings and has convenient access to the general aviation parcel of the TSN airport. The large campus of China Civic Aviation University is directly across the street to
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SAAN recently completed a master plan for a proposed airport on the eastern outskirts of Beijing. Located about 47 KM (28 miles) east of Beijing Capital Airport PEK, this airport will be a reliever airport for the Beijing PEK airport. It will also serve as a cargo hub airport for the vast economic regions of
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SAAN has been actively exploring the concept of digital twin on its application on large infrastructure projects. Recently when working on Zhengzhou International Airport’s (CGO) Phase 3 Expansion project, SAAN’s design team built an extensive 3D model of the existing airport before designing any expansion work, analyzing the airport’s evolution and getting an in-depth understanding
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Recently, SAAN proposed to learn from the famous Futurama concept to a client when designing the functional flow system within the logistics area of a large air cargo hub. SAAN used a multi-strata system for cargo and people flow in this mega hub to facilitate a seamless operation during peak and off-season. This model bears
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The scope of this project is to design twenty (20) bridges to span over an intricate waterway system inside the greenbelt surrounding the financial island of the start-up zone in the ambitious Xiong-an New City in China. Among these twenty bridges, three are pedestrian-only bridges and others are both vehicular and pedestrian. Xiong-an is located
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Xiamen is building its new airport. It will have a super capacity of 62 million passengers and one million metric tonnes of cargo annual throughput by the Year 2030. Like many airports in China, it is also planning its airport city which immediately surrounds the airport. For Xiamen, the new airport is located on an
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We designed a mega-size air cargo hub for Jiaxing’s International Airport. As a cargo airport, this cargo hub will generate most of the runway aircraft movement. It will handle a forecasted annual 1.12 million metric tonnes of cargo throughput by 2030 and about 2.45 million metric tonnes by 2045. It is also estimated that about
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Among China’s large airports, Zhengzhou International (CGO) is considered one of the luckiest, grows the fastest, and has the strongest support from the local government. Speaking of luck, CGO was chosen by Apple’s Asia Sidekick Foxconn in 2010 to build one of the largest iPhone manufacturing plants right on airport property. The reason is that
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