Building Hong Kong's Airport
Extreme Engineering · Season 1 · Episode 7
Hong Kong has outgrown its small airport and quickly needed a new one in order to maintain its high traffic flow. The only place to put this new world class airport... 16 miles out in the ocean. This would require 22 miles of new super highway. It was predicted to take decades, but engineers were only given 7 years to build it.
Episode Details
Air date, runtime, timezone, and episode position.
Season
1
Episode
7
Air Date
14/May/2003
Air Time
—
Runtime
—
Overview
Episode summary.
Hong Kong has outgrown its small airport and quickly needed a new one in order to maintain its high traffic flow. The only place to put this new world class airport... 16 miles out in the ocean. This would require 22 miles of new super highway. It was predicted to take decades, but engineers were only given 7 years to build it.
Episode Navigation
Move between previous and next episodes.