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With a budget of $2.82 Billion USD, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport was one of the world’s most expensive renovation projects to take place in 2004.
HyCOMB Panels played an integral role in the project, supplying interior and exterior cladding materials in the form of both stone honeycomb panels and aluminium honeycomb panels.
- Location: Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, Guangzhou, China
- Featured Products:
- Aluminum Honeycomb Panels (26,000m²)
- Stone Honeycomb Panels (5,800m²)
- Project Size: 38,000m² (combined)
About the Project
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport was built in August 2000 and is currently the third busiest airport in China. It was officially opened on August 5th, 2004 and is located in the capital of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, where it serves as a large civil airport and one of the three major domestic airports.
Baiyun International Airport currently has three runways and two terminals – the second of which opened in 2018. There are also plans to open an additional two runaways in the future. In 2019, the airport was used by 65.8 million passengers, with plans to take this figure up to 80 million passengers per year from 2020.
At present, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport offers 136 international and regional routes, with 1,000 flights a day to 207 destinations across five continents, including Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and Oceania.
On February 29th, 2016, the Global Airport Service Satisfaction Authority, the International Airport Association (ACI), announced that Guangzhou Baiyun Airport earned third place in the “Asia Pacific Best Airport” category following the results of the Airport Quality of Service (ASQ) passenger satisfaction project. More than 300 airports and more than 550,000 visitors participated in the survey.
