The world’s largest land reclamation

Hong Kong International Airport opened in 1998 and is one of the busiest airports in the world with 35 million passengers annually. The platform of the new airport is the partly man-made island Chek Lap Kok off the north coast of Lantau island. Creating the island was a combined excavation and reclamation project and a total of 367 million m³ of stones, gravel and sand was moved.

To stabilize the subbase and prevent migration and mingling of materials still allowing free movement of water, Fibertex F-4M was installed between the construction layers as a separator. For protection of the 13 km of coastline, Fibertex F-1000M was chosen as a filtration layer.

More than 7 million m² of Fibertex Geotextiles were used and the high uniform quality, prompt delivery and optimal service were key factors when choosing Fibertex.