Pudong Airport safe: expert
25/5/2004 15:21
The architecture in Pudong International Airport and Oriental Art
Center in construction are "safe and scientifically reasonable", local
architects said today in the wake of the collapse in Charles de Gaulle Airport
in Paris which in designed by the same French architect Paul Andreu.
The
passenger terminal in Charles de Gaulle Airport caved in on Sunday, killing at
least five people, including two Chinese. Witness said tons of concrete, steel
and glass from the roof fell on to a waiting area in the terminal and pulled the
outer walls down.
Designer of the airport was designed by French
architecture designer Paul Andreu, who also sketched out the Pudong Airport and
Oriental Art Center in Shanghai, along with the National Theatre in Beijing. All
these building feature grand roofs.
Yet "The construction structure and
technique used in Charles de Gaulle Aiport in completely different from that in
Pudong Airport, " said Zhang Fuling, the chief engineer in charge of the
construction technique designer in the Puodng Airport.
The roof of the
terminal in Charles de Gaulle airport was built with concrete, while the roof
and outer walls in Pudong Airport were a steel structure, which is lighter,
Zhang said.
All the technique and construction part is done by Chinese
part instead of the artistic designers, he
added.
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