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Hong Kong airport Construction Project
22 miles of super highways and tunnels were to be built to connect the airport to main city.
Construction of tunnels
A tunnel turned out to be non-feasible due to heavy traffic
Built of mammoth pre-cast concrete steel structures
each one weight 35000 tons
While being laid they were capped with water tight seals, to prevent water from entering them and then put head to tail
The seals were then removed carefully by hydraulic jacks and the joint between each was made air tight.
Then the builders made the final connexion from the inside
highways
Bridge Construction
The bridges were to be long enough to span the islands and high enough to allow most gigantic ships below it
Two bridges, whose towers rose to a height of 60 stories
The strength and support to the bridge towers was provided by 3' diameter cable weighing up to 15000 tons
Join the small islands into one big island with
Missions
Remove 200 million tons of rocks by giant earth movers
Under water dredgers arrived at the site and soft mud up to 40 ft was removed from the sea
The biggest land moving exercises ever i.e. 600 million tons of material was removed
Enough to fill ancient Roman Coliseum 200 times
