GPS World, January 2016
MACHINECONTROLUPDATE Trimbles Beijing Airport Construction Contract Extended Future Airport The new Beijing Daxing International Airport is expected to be the worlds largest Concept Zaha Hadid Architects Worlds Largest The interior of new Beijing Airport terminal will have a futuristic vibe Concept Zaha Hadid Architects JANUARY 2016 WWW GPSWORLD COM GPS WORLD 65 T rimble has received a contract extension for Beijings New Airport Project expected to be the worlds largest airport when completed at an estimated cost of 131 billion In April Trimble won the initial bid to supply the project with a construction information management system Based on the success of the solution to date the contract has been extended to include additional machine control systems for soil stabilization Beijings new airport scheduled to open in late 2018 is being built to handle 72 million travelers 2 million tons of shipping and 620000 flights by the year 2025 The massive construction project has received an unprecedented level of investment from the Chinese government for civil aviation Construction of the airport began on Dec 26 2014 The Beijing New Airport Project is using construction technology from Trimble to integrate construction and operations The goal is to construct the airport in a safer and more efficient manner achieve transparent management and maximize construction quality Trimble was chosen to implement a browser based locally hosted digital construction information management system for tracking and monitoring construction operations in real time The Trimble solution allows users to create 3D constructible models perform soil stabilization automate construction processes and effectively manage information Based on successful soil stabilization results using Trimble machine control over the past four months another 15 systems have been ordered The research results for dynamic compaction have been extremely promising said Li Qiang chief engineer of the Beijing New Airport Construction Office As a result the project is pushing forward with a larger scale deployment to further the research into creating new methods and standards for airfield construction Trimbles machine control solutions leverage a variety of technologies including GPS construction lasers total stations wireless data communications the Internet and application software As part of the Trimble Connected Site strategy these solutions provide a high level of process and workflow integration from the design phase through to the finished project delivering significant improvements in productivity throughout the construction lifecycle the company said terminal construction The technology used allows creation of 3D constructible models and automated construction processes Photo Trimble
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