Construction and Engineering of the Iconic West Kowloon Station Roof in Hong Kong
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Alecs K. T. Chong
(Project Technical Lead, Aurecon, Hong Kong)
Mike Tapley (Technical Director; Aurecon, Hong Kong) Mathieu Bessodes (Engineering Manager, Leighton-Gammon Joint-Venture, Hong Kong) C. C. Hau (Principal Project Director, Leighton-Gammon Joint-Venture, Hong Kong) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Conference: Engineering the Developing World, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25-27 April 2018 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Conference Kuala Lumpur 2018 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 563-570 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/kualalumpur.2018.0563 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The West Kowloon Station North is the largest civil contract awarded for the Hong Kong Section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link. Located in the heart of Kowloon, the Station will serve as Hong Kong’s international gateway to China. This paper focuses on the iconic station entrance building roof structure construction and the solutions adopted to tackle the complex construction and engineering challenges, to achieve timely construction programme and to deliver successfully the architect vision of this new landmark infrastructure. |
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| Keywords: |
steel construction underground railway station temporary works high speed rail erection phase analysis long span roof non-linear staged analysis West Kowloon Station
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