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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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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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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Linyi is a city in China’s Shandong province. Its international airport was originally built in 1958, and later expanded in 1991 and again in 2016. The current passenger terminal 2 was built in 2017. In recent years, with LYI’s passenger throughput exploding, it has been operating under capacity for several years. A new terminal is
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Global e-commerce consumption is exploding and inducing a dramatic expansion of air cargo facilities around the world. China’s adoption of the “One Belt One Road” strategy, has added to the confidence level of this huge expansion. SAAN was invited to participate in an international design competition for a greenfield airport being planned at a location
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With its immense scale, Beijing Daxing Airport will bring forth immense economic development of subsequent aviation-led growths around the airport. However, there are three very different categories of airport community developments. Different primarily in their development about airport development, the airport passenger and cargo capacities, the airport’s distance from major cities, and regional population and
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Themed as “Africa’s Lion Rising”, we prepared a special project report on the new gateway airport and the logistics industrial park for Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa. This report was a joint effort with China Communications Construction Company (CCCC). Selected in a confidential location, the new greenfield airport will be connected with the City of Addis Ababa
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