Building Hong Kong's Airport
Write a report summarizing the conclusions of the following questions:
1 What were the project drivers in terms of problems and opportunities? Go beyond what is stated in the video to consider what the unstated drivers might have been. Include at least five drivers in your report and offer an explanation for each one.
Original airport cant handle the volume of air traffic
Original airport cant handle the volume of cargo
Original airport cant handle the volume of passengers
Mountains make flight dangerous
Skyscrapers make flight dangerous
1 short runway makes flight congested and dangerous
2Given the goal of increasing capacity for passengers and cargo in the Hong Kong area, what options were available? Identify at least five mutually exclusive possibilities.
The only option was to have a larger airport. Expanding the current airport was not an option due to being surrounded by businesses. Which left molding a new landscape out to sea, in order to place a new airport there.
3Conduct a SWOT analysis for the chosen course of action (i.e., the project as it was envisioned and executed). Include in your report a figure summarizing your SWOT analysis.
Strengths:
larger airport
Less traffic jams
More cargo capacity
More air traffic capacity
More passenger capacity
Advanced technology
Less vehicle traffic with the rail line
safer flying due to no mountains and no skyscrapers
Weaknesses:
Short timeframe
Seafloor to be cleared
1 additional year granted by China not long enough due to new technology
Constructing first highway in the sky at night over 15 lanes of traffic
Longest bridges in the world
No land available to airport or rail station
Too many mountains on the individual islands
No coastline for highway
Bridges unstable in high winds
Tide pushing up into foundation
Opportunities:
First engineering project of this magnitude
First highway in the sky for Hong Kong
More tourist opportunities due to more air traffic capacity
More business opportunities due to more cargo capacity
Threats:
Typhoons
High winds
China stopping project before completion
Critical flight information errors
Com link to original airport down
Moving critical operations while aircraft in flight
New technology errors in general
