@cybershot1688
New Manila International airport will be built also on a reclaimed land. All of the reasons mentioned are true.
@jamesau4296
You forgot to mention what happened in Narita Airport(Tokyo’s main international gateway). Actually Japanese government originally assumed that building airport on land is easier and cheaper, but the land resumption process ended up being some of the longest political tensions in Japan with violent clashes between peasants unwilling to surrender land, and up until now the airport was still functionally deficient with farmland in middle of tarmac due to incomplete land resumption(and runway capacity constrainted with one 4km and a shorter 2.5km runways, plus curfew enforced). That’s why most Asian countries learned the hard way and built airport on water if available.
@KonstantinZander
Sound massively improved! Awesome! Thanks :)
@jamesau4296
3:56 For the matter of sinking, what’s wrong with Kansai is they haven’t dug away the low density, low strength soil beneath the airport(at that time they don’t know it have such a consequence), that after they place something heavy(the extra soil to create land, plus the building), the soil beneath cannot bear its weight and they are compressed (that’s why they sink)
@ajbico
There's a new airport under construction near Manila that was previously a land then sank and then they reclaimed the land for the airport.
@thecommentatorofreallynoth9966
Singapore's airport is a little different. Most of the reclaimed land was foreshore ie, land exposed during low tide. And unlike Narita, it really isnt in the of the sea, it is additions made to existing land.
@lesterlam84
To quote you, airports built on sea are sinking because they are built on the sea. As a civil engineer myself, this statement that is not an explanation is literally icky to me. And what data do you have to support your statement that the airports on reclaimed land are sinking? Any structures built on original land or reclaimed land are expected to settle. It’s all about proper design and workmanship to manage the settlement.
@clydeds123
I guess it's an East Asian phenomenon, I have never seen any airports in India constructed in water like Navi Mumbai International Airport and also other airports built in rest of Asia. 😄😄
@LeoSpaceman69
It's literally land economics, dude, nothing more nothing less.
@bytbeauty286
Why is Japan so good at technology
@colourwayblue
that is not the airport in Singapore.
@gordonchao3074
Actually, some of the Chinese airports are also built on reclaimed land, such as the Shanghai Pudong Airport and the still-constructing Dalian airport
@chavandposh
first airport built on entirely on water wasnt kansai, there was a prototype before kansai, it was nagasaki airport opened in 1975.
@jamesau4296
0:28 Wrong Photo, that’s the HK airport 3rd runway master plan advertisement photo
@leodeldominguiano2162
So if you need cash cow it is the floating airport due to expensive maintenance
@Random_ButInteresting