The main building of Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal 3 was designed by the Netherlands Airport Consultants (NACO), the British Norman? Foster Architects was responsible for the design, in June 2000, the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China began to carry out the medium and long-term planning study of the Beijing Capital International Airport. on March 26, 2004, Terminal 3 completed the construction and supervision bidding, and formally signed the construction and supervision contract, the capital airport began the third phase of the expansion project. ***More than 22,200 acres of land have been expropriated and nine villages have been relocated,*** involving 12,000 people. The expansion project will be fully completed by the end of 2007, with trial runs in February 2008 to ensure normal operations before the 2008 Olympic Games.Terminal 3 is located on the eastern edge of Beijing Capital International Airport.The T3 main building and its supporting projects are located between the existing east runway and the new runway.When completed, Terminal 3 will be the largest single building in China by surface area.Terminal 3 (T3) is comprised of the main building and the domestic and international concourses. Terminal 3 (T3) consists of the main building and the domestic and international concourses. It is equipped with an automatic baggage handling and high-speed transfer system, a fast passenger rapid transit system and an information system, with a total construction area of 986,000 square meters. A new 3,800-meter-long and 60-meter-wide runway has been built to meet the requirements for the use of Class F aircraft, and is equipped with the world's most advanced Class III Precision Automatic Aircraft Guidance System, which is China's most advanced take-off and landing navigation system, and allows for the take-off and landing of aircraft even in very low visibility. The world's largest airplane Airbus A380 can take off and land smoothly. The runway was put on trial in October 2008 after a successful test flight. In addition, a new North Cargo Area is being built, with the corresponding supporting construction of an on-site transportation system, as well as facilities such as water supply, power supply, gas supply, fuel supply, ventilation, and airline bases.
[Edit]Overview of Terminal 3
Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal 3 consists of the T3A main building, T3B, T3C main building, T3D, T3E international waiting corridor and the traffic system in front of the building.T3 main building has five floors on the ground and two floors underground, and the first floor of the T3 main building is the baggage handling hall, the far-away waiting hall, and the domestic and international VIP; the second floor is the passenger arrival hall, the baggage claim hall, and the Jetway. The first floor of T3 main building is the baggage handling hall, domestic and international VIP; the second floor is the passenger arrival hall, baggage claim hall and MRT platform; the third floor is the domestic passenger departure hall; the fourth floor is the ticketing and catering hall; and the fifth floor is the catering.T3C (domestic area) and T3E (international area) are in the symmetry of the "human" shape, which are echoing each other in the north-south direction, and the middle of them is connected by the red steel structure of the T3D Terminal Building. It is 2,900 meters long and 790 meters wide in the north-south direction, with a building height of 45 meters. Terminal 3 is much larger than the two already existing terminals.
The north and south buildings of Terminal 3 (T3C and T3E) will be connected by an APM (Automated People Mover) system for the convenience of passengers due to the long distance between the two buildings. The APM is a driverless, fully automated passenger transportation system. Designed by Bombardier of Canada, the APM uses trackside and center control signals to control the operation of the vehicles. The travel route is 2080 meters long one way. Set in T3C, T3D, T3E **** there are three stations.
Terminal 3 baggage system adopts the most advanced international automatic sorting and high-speed transmission system, baggage handling system by the outbound, transit, inbound baggage handling system and baggage empty basket back to the system, the early delivery of baggage storage system composed of the T3C, T3E and connecting the T3C and T3E baggage tunnel in the corresponding area, covers an area of about 120,000 square meters, the system's total length is about 70 km . Airlines just need to transport their baggage to the sorting gate, and the system takes only 4.5 minutes to transfer these baggage to the baggage claim carousel, which greatly reduces passengers' waiting time for baggage claim.
The transportation center (GTC) is located in front of Terminal 3, with a two-level underground parking lot totaling 300,000 square meters and parking for 7,000 vehicles. After passengers get off from the parking lot, they can take the elevator directly to the inside of the terminal building. On the ground level of the Transportation Center is the Light Rail Transit Station, with a floor area of 45,000 square meters and an elliptical glass shell structure. Passengers can take the light rail transportation from the city until the terminal building. The light rail lines from Dongzhimen to the Capital Airport will diverge and reach Terminals 2 and 3 respectively, and a rail connection will be established between Terminal 3 and the original Terminal 2. The construction of off-site ancillary projects such as the Second Airport Expressway, Airport South Expressway, Airport North Expressway and Airport Rail Transit provide convenient access for passengers to and from the capital airport.
Beijing Capital International Airport's third runway was completed on the occasion of the commissioning of Building 3. Beijing Capital International Airport became the first airport in China to have three terminals with dual towers and three runways in operation at the same time. The number of taxiways at the airport increased from 71 to 137, and the number of parking spaces increased from 164 to 314.
[edit]Passenger Flight Availability
Beijing Capital International Airport's Terminal 3 was put into operation on February 29 and March 26, 2008 in two phases.
The first batch of airlines transferring to T3 at 0:00 on February 29:
Shandong Airlines (Jinan, Qingdao, Yantai)
Sichuan Airlines (Chengdu, Chongqing, Kunming, Wanzhou)
Qantas Airways (Sydney)
Qatar Airways (Doha)
British Airways ( London Heathrow)
Israel Airways (Tel Aviv)
The second batch of airlines transferring to Terminal 3 on March 26 at 0:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
Air China
Domestic routes: (Baotou, Changchun, Changde, Changsha, Changzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dazhou, Datong, Datong, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Haikou, Hailar, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hefei, Hohhot, Jinggangshan, Kunming, Lanzhou, Lhasa, Mianyang, Nanchang, Nanjing, Nanning, Nantong, Ningbo, Ordos, Qingdao, Sanya, Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, Shanghai Pudong International Airport, Shantou, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Taiyuan, Tongliao, Urumqi, Weihai, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Xiamen, Xi'an, Xiangfan, Xilinhot, Xining, Xuzhou Yancheng, Yanji, Yantai, Yinchuan, Yuncheng, Zhangjiajie, Zhengzhou, Zhuhai)
International routes: (Anchorage, Athens, Bangkok, Busan, Copenhagen, Daegu, Delhi, Dubai, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Melbourne, Moscow, Munich, Nagoya, New York, Osaka, Paris, Pyongyang, Rome, Saipan, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Sapporo, Sendai, Seoul, Singapore, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Sydney, Tokyo, Ulaanbaatar, Vancouver, Yangon)
Shanghai Airways (Shanghai, Hangzhou)
Scandinavian Airlines (Copenhagen, Stockholm)
Austrian Airlines ( Vienna)
Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
Asiana Airlines (Busan, Gwangju, Cheongju, Seoul Incheon Int'l Airport)
Air Canada (Toronto, Vancouver)
United Airlines (Chicago O'Hare Int'l, San Francisco, Washington Dulles Int'l Airport)
All Nippon Airways (Osaka Kansai International Airport, Tokyo Narita International Airport)
Thai Airways International (Bangkok)
Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
Finnish Airways (Helsinki)
Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong)
Japan Airlines (Nagoya, Osaka Kansai International Airport, Tokyo Narita International Airport)
Dragonair (Hong Kong)
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul)
Emirates International Airlines (Dubai)
Air Macau (Macau)
Novosibirsk Airlines (Novosibirsk, Irkutsk)
[edit]Terminal 3 Ten points of interest
Point of interest one
Terminal 3 of the Beijing Capital International Airport, the design of which came from the hands of British architect Norman Foster, is viewed from the air like a giant dragon, forming a building volume full of overall dynamism. This complete architectural pattern will create a stunning travel experience both indoors and outdoors. The entire Terminal 3 project can be seen as a "dragon spitting out blue pearls", "dragon body", "dragon spine", "dragon scale "dragon body", "dragon ridge", "dragon scale", "dragon beard" five parts.
The dragon spits out the blue pearl - refers to the passenger in and out of the "distribution center", that is, the transportation center (GTC), commonly known as the parking building. This expansion will provide 7,000 parking spaces in a 340,000-square-meter building.
The body of the dragon - is the main body of the expansion project. As the "dragon body" of the Terminal 3 construction area of 428,000 square meters, north-south length of 2,900 meters, 790 meters wide, building height of 45 meters, by the T3C main building, T3D international terminal corridor, T3E international terminal corridor. The two symmetrical "human" shaped terminals T3C (domestic area) and T3E (international area) echo each other in the north-south direction, and are connected by the red steel structure of the T3D terminal building.
The Dragon's Ridge - referring to the main building's double-curved vaulted roof - is the most spectacular part of the entire T3 project. The steel mesh frame here is made of red, orange, tangerine, yellow and other 12 colors undulating gradient, like colorful clouds holding up the soaring dragon.
Dragon scales - the triangular skylights on the roof - look like scales on a dragon from a distance. The "Dragon Scale" skylight, which allows for natural lighting, is the first time such technology has been used in a domestic airport. There are 155 such skylights on the ceiling of the terminal building, allowing sunlight to flood every corner of the hall.
The dragon's whiskers - a well-connected transportation network. The designers took advantage of the simultaneous supporting investment in the construction of the approach transportation project in this expansion project, including three highways, a light rail and a local road improvement.
Spot Two
Terminal 3 not only incorporates classical Chinese imagery into its fashionable appearance, but also highlights the long history of the ancient civilization in its interior landscape. Travelers step into the T3 check-in hall, facing the "Ziwei Chenheng" sculpture, which is the prototype of China's great scientists in ancient times Zhang Heng's world-renowned invention, "armillary sphere", sophisticated and realistic; domestic entry and exit hall placed four vat, called "door sea auspicious", shaped like the Forbidden City, the Hall of Peace on both sides of the copper tank; the second floor of the central axis, placed the Nine dragons in the shape of the wall of alabaster products - "Nine Dragons Dedication", the east and west sides of the "Qu Yuan Feng He" and "high mountains and flowing water" two chic rest area; T3 international area of the garden building T3 international area garden architecture is another highlight of the landscape of Terminal 3: 15,000 square meters of duty-free shopping area with the "Royal Spring Draped Rainbow" fountain landscape as the core, east and west sides of the "Royal Garden Harmonious Interest", "Wu Men Smoke and Rain" royal gardens; the international international airport is located on the east side of the "Royal Garden Harmonious Interest", "Wu Men Smoke and Rain" royal gardens. The international entry and exit area is also equipped with two giant screen murals - "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" and "Miles of the Great Wall". Travelers in the terminal building, as if swimming in an art museum full of rare treasures, I believe that passing travelers will harvest a physical and mental pleasure and enjoyment. Experts commented that the cultural landscape of Terminal 3 inherits and enriches traditional Chinese art and culture, combines ornamental and functionality, celebrates Chinese civilization, and at the same time serves the function of coordinates positioning of passengers to T3.
Seeing Point 3
The service facilities inside T3 will also make travelers feel the humanistic care of the capital airport, and humanized functions can be seen everywhere. The terminal building is transparent and generous, the roof is designed as 155 "dragon scale" style skylights, this unique shape not only adds grandeur to the overall building of the terminal building, it is the first time that domestic airports use large-scale natural lighting design ideas, which can effectively save the lighting energy; T3's famous "Colorful Roof" is the most important feature. T3's famous "colorful haze roof" also has a unique function - pointing to the direction, the roof of the dense stripes from red to orange gradient, always pointing to the north and south, travelers will not worry about getting lost in the terminal building. In addition, the functional design of Terminal 3 also takes into full consideration the needs of vulnerable groups and special travelers. The warm and considerate mother and baby room; children's activity area with toys and cartoons; environmentally friendly smoking room to bid farewell to the smoky environment; barrier-free facilities will enable disabled passengers to y feel the capital airport's meticulous care for them.
Seeing Point 4
The road in front of the Terminal 3 building is spacious and the direction is clear. The Airport South Highway connects the two approach highways, the Airport Second Highway leads directly to Terminal 3, the rail transit leads directly from Dongzhimen to the ground transportation centers of T2 and T3, and the Airport North Highway leads to the cargo area on the north side of the airport, which will make it easier for passengers to enter and exit the airport more conveniently and quickly.
In the arrival and departure levels of Terminal 3, the flow of buses, cabs and social vehicles, the size of the vehicle, the loading time and other relevant processes, in order to reduce the number of passengers traveling through the lanes in front of the terminal, the arrival level of Terminal 3 to implement closed management, to eliminate social vehicles.
In order to facilitate passengers to transfer flights between different terminals, the airport's new connecting T1, T2, T3 between the three terminals of the roadside ferry, the inter-terminal liaison road 10 kilometers each way, the roadside ferry running time of about 15 minutes, stopping at T1, stay two or three minutes in the T2 and T3, carrying passengers back and forth between the three terminal arrivals level.
The GTC is perfectly connected to T3, which looks like a long dragon from above, and the GTC is a jewel in the dragon's mouth. the GTC has a floor area of 340,000 square meters, with a concentrated and functional traffic flow*** on four floors, with a parking garage on the second basement level that can accommodate about 7,000 cars, and a four-track railroad station on the second floor above the ground, directly connected to the city by an urban light rail line. There is a city light rail directly connected to the downtown area, and it becomes the intersection of the airport's second highway, the city railroad, and the airport terminal liaison road.
Spot 5
Terminal 3 features the multi-storey APM (Automated People Mover), a driverless, fully automated passenger transportation system. The APM system adopts the design scheme of Bombardier of Canada. The system adopts trackside and central control to transfer signals to control the operation of vehicles, and wireless TV monitoring system to monitor the situation of passengers in the car, which is safe, fast, green and environmentally friendly.
APM system of the whole process *** there are three stations, respectively, set in T3C, T3D, T3E, travel route one-way length of 2080 meters, the maximum departure interval of 3 minutes, the peak hour one-way delivery of passengers up to 4,227 passengers. APM platforms use the glass curtain wall to block the passengers to enter the track area, only in the train arrives at the station, the door and the platform door at the same time open, the passengers can enter the compartment. Passengers can only enter the carriages when the train doors and platform doors are opened at the same time upon arrival. In order to prevent the mixing of inbound and outbound passengers, a single side door is opened, and after all the inbound and outbound passengers have gotten off the train, the other side of the door and platform door are opened for the outbound and inbound passengers to get on the train.
Seeing Point 6
Terminal 3 baggage system adopts the most advanced automatic sorting and high-speed transmission system, with a high degree of automation, complete monitoring system and strong fault tolerance. The transmission speed is up to 10 meters per second, and the peak hour baggage handling is nearly 20,000 pieces. The baggage handling system consists of outbound, transit and inbound baggage handling system and empty baggage basket return system, early delivery baggage storage system, etc. It covers T3C, T3E and the corresponding areas connecting T3C and T3E baggage tunnels, covering an area of about 120,000 square meters, with a total length of the system of about 70 kilometers.
The baggage system in T3 is installed with the world's most advanced radio frequency identification system, where baggage is monitored and locked wherever it goes during transportation. Meanwhile, for the sake of aviation security, T3's baggage system is also installed with a five-stage security check system, so that even the smallest, hidden prohibited items cannot escape the system's screening. There are also 17 large baggage claim carousels. Airlines just need to transport their baggage to the sorting gate, and the system takes only 4.5 minutes to transfer these bags to the baggage claim carousel, which will also greatly reduce the time passengers have to wait for their bags to be claimed.
Seeing Point 7
Terminal 3 is a highly informatized terminal. remote check-in and mobile check-in services supported by the IATA CUTE platform, universal self-check-in services with 60 IATA CUSS standards, Wi-Fi coverage, etc. The monitoring system, five levels of security checks, and the secondary identity authentication system all provide protection for the safe operation of the terminal and the safe travel of passengers. 1.1 billion yuan has been invested in the information system of Terminal 3, which is three to four times larger than that of Terminal 2, and is ahead of the industry in terms of sophistication and stability.
Terminal 3 air display screen a **** more than 1600, is the sum of Terminal 1, 2 more than twice, its flexibility has also been greatly enhanced, providing a platform for airlines to achieve their personalized service, the gate staff can be in the designated air display screen on their own to publish some temporary news, such as large-scale flight delays using this platform to inform passengers of Some meal arrangements, weather conditions, etc. The information source is the source of data of the flight display system, which determines the speed and accuracy of information update. At present, Terminals 1 and 2 use ATC information, which is relatively late in updating information, especially when flights are delayed, passengers can not get the flight dynamics through the flight display. In order to solve this problem, the information source of Terminal 3 adopts a combination of ATC information and airline information to ensure that the information is released to the greatest extent possible in a timely and accurate manner.
The departure system in the airport information system relies on the departure system to support the entire process from check-in to boarding. Compared with the more traditional and functionally limited departure system in Terminals 1 and 2, the departure system in Terminal 3 embodies more of the function of a hub airport -- not only supporting airlines to build a personalized departure front-end, but also supporting airlines to build a personalized departure front-end. Not only does it support airlines to build personalized departure front-end, but it can also interconnect the back-end information through the platform provided by the airport, so that the check-in staff can obtain the information of transit flights to the destination as the stopover station when checking in for the passengers, and provide forward-looking services to the passengers.
Terminal 3 will realize the wireless network full coverage, passengers in Terminal 3 can be anywhere at any time "surfing"; airlines can be in the peak period of passengers, increase the mobile check-in business, which is a strong complement to the fixed resources of the terminal building; catering, retail can be applied to the wireless network to launch a wireless retail and other high-quality services. The wireless network can be used by restaurants and retailers to launch high service quality businesses such as wireless retailing.
Seeing Point 8
The Navigation Lighting System of the Capital Airport Expansion Project is based on the Navigation Lighting System under the Advanced Ground Activity Guidance and Control System (referred to as the Single Light Guidance System). The system started to be constructed at the same time with the expansion project in 2005, and the investment in the construction of the whole system is as high as 600 million RMB, which is three times as much as the investment in the construction of the third runway project.
The single-light guidance system is a system that routes, guides and monitors aircraft and vehicle activity, and it ensures a safe and efficient level of operation for airport ground activities. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) stipulates that the single-light guidance system is divided into five levels, and the single-light guidance system of the Capital Airport is designed and constructed according to the standard of level 4, which became the most advanced navigation light system in the world when it was opened.
In order to provide pilots with more accurate and clear guidance information, the East District navigation lights to achieve the red, yellow, blue and green lamps and lanterns of four colors, the red light is located in the taxiway and intersections, pilots see the red light on the pilot has to stop and wait; the green light is the taxiway of the median light, indicating that can be exercised normally; yellow light for the warning light, to remind pilots to quickly drive out of the taxiway; and the blue light is to express the The green light is the taxiway centerline light, indicating normal exercise; the yellow light is a warning light reminding the pilot to exit the taxiway quickly; and the blue light is an edge light indicating the width of the roadway, thus clearly distinguishing between lights with different functions.
The navigational lighting system meets the requirement of providing personalized guidance services to flights, and after the integration of the background system, it will be able to realize the personalized path guidance from the landing of the aircraft all the way to the approach to the designated aircraft position. Each flight is automatically generated by the system to exercise a set of paths, pilots only need to light up along the ground to guide the lights can take the correct path, docked at the correct aircraft. The lights on the flight path are only illuminated when the flight is approaching, and will be turned off automatically when the flight passes by, thus not interfering with the paths of other flights, and ensuring that the flights "go their own way".
The single-light guidance system at Beijing Capital Airport is a set of advanced facilities and a fully functional system, which, when put into use, will greatly improve the safety and security of taxiing and runway operations, increase the efficiency of aircraft ground operations and airport operational capacity, and provide more accurate, simpler, and more humanized guidance information to the flight crews. The single-light guidance system of the navigational aid lighting system will better ensure the efficient and safe operation of the capital airport.
See Point 9
The double-deck multifunctional boarding bridge is the first of its kind in China. 69 boarding bridges have fixed ends for inbound and outbound ****, of which 18 combined boarding bridges can serve two airplanes at the same time.
Seeing Point 10
From both sides of the approach highway to the front of Terminal 3, a total area of 700,000 square meters is covered with vegetation, which is equivalent to more than twice the overall floor area of the GTC, and the use of multi-species of vegetation and staggered ground elevation creates a three-dimensional hierarchy of space. There are two lakes and a river outside Terminal 3. The landscape lake is divided into three parts consisting of East Lake A, East Lake B and West Lake, covering an area of about 120,000 square meters with a water storage capacity of about 500,000 cubic meters. This landscape lake system is an important storage tool to ensure the smooth discharge of rainwater from the airport apron during the flood season and the smooth flow of rainwater from the surrounding pipelines. This system takes the landscape lake as the core, using the lake as the center of accumulation and utilization, and the whole system is mainly composed of rainwater collection, water treatment and reuse, lake water quality assurance and other sub-systems. For the rainwater utilization project, the main function is to carry out rainwater ecological collection, purification, interception and interception of sewage and storage. Meanwhile, as an important human landscape in front of the new terminal building of the capital airport, the lush green plants around the lake and the landscape lake environment are organically organized together, presenting a beautiful landscape.