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DULLES AIRPORT

STANSTED AIRPORT

MADRID AIRPORT

BEIJING AIRPORT

HISTORY
1943: The airfield opened to be used for Second World War. 1949The Ministry of Civil Aviation finally took control of Stansted . 1966: The newly created British Airports Authority took control. 1978: The Government proposed major expansion of Stansted Airport. 1991: Opening of the airport at Stansted increased the airport's capacity
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FACTS
Runways And Terminal: One Passengers per year: c.19.0 million Rail link: Stansted Airport, 47 minutes to London. Destinations: over 140 Total retail space: 10,000m Employs: over 10,500 AIRPORT SYSTEMS

Third busiest airport in London with more scheduled destinations throughout Europe than any other airport in the World
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LOCATION
London Stansted Airport is a passenger airport located at Stansted Mountfitchet in the district
of Uttlesford in Essex, 48 km (30 mi) northeast of Central London. Stansted is a hub for a number of major European low-cost carriers. It is the third-busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the third-largest airport serving the London area after Heathrow and Gatwick. Stansted's runway is also used by private companies such as the Harrods terminal which is opposite the main terminal building and handles private jets and some state visits. SITE CONTEXT AND HISTORY

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121 shallow steel framed quasi domes with 22.000 triangular ceiling panels, supported within a structural steel Spaceframework form huge pyramid coffers. frame structure- for long spans

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STRUCTURE ANALYSIS Air distribution 163mm tubular steel truss 40mm high high ENVIRONMENT strength preANALYSIS stressed rods

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Stansted airports biodiversity management plan is to: Maintain ecologically rich habitats to sustain biodiversity Maximise efficient land use .

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DESTROYING QUALITY OF LIFE ACROSS THE REGION

Noise from aircraft flying overhead would have affected vast region. Children at school would have suffered even more interruption to their learning. The pressure on the road and rail network would result in congestion

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Air quality would have suffered, both from additional aircraft and from road traffic.
Development pressures to serve an airport bigger than today's Heathrow would have radically altered the character of the region and put pressure on the infrastructure, including water supplies.

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The Government announced approval for an increase in permitted passenger numbers from Noise communications 25 to 35 million per noise complaints in the permitted number of annual flight movements During 2007, 2,963 annum and a rise were received from 1,605 people and a further 2,411 from 241,000 to from seven complaints 264,000. people. In total, there were 5,374 complaints in 2007 compared to 14,073 complaints in 2006. ADDING TO THE CLIMATE has coincided with the introduction of our online self-service The reduction in complaints CHANGE BURDEN enquiry system known as WebTrak - in May 2007. In global tracks Stansted aircraft flight paths and shows the date, time, aircraft height and WebTrakterms, the climate change impacts of further expansion would have increased current carbon dioxide emissions from Stansted airport from 3.3 million tonnes a year type, allowing the public to make their own enquiries about a particular flight. (as at 2011) to 12 million tonnes with full use of the existing runway and to 23 million tonnes annually from a two-runway airport - all this at a time when other industries and individuals are being asked to dramatically reduce their carbon emissions.

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Literature & Picture Credits Books Architectural Monographs No. 20, Foster Associates recent works (1952) St Martins Press, London Brooks, Alan J & Grech Chris; Building envelope (1990) Butterworth & co, UK Samdani, Sumaiya; Space Frames Structure & Design (1997) dissertation, IVS, Karachi

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Websites
http://www.crowstep.co.uk/Resources/TheBritishAirportin2000.pdf http://www.flickr.com/photos/faasdant/4845009076/ http://www.fosterandpartners.com http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Stansted_Airport.html http://www.stanstedairport.com/ http://www.stopstanstedexpansion.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Stansted_Airport
BY: ABDULLAH MANSOOR, MARIA KHAN, MUNIZA HASHMI, SAAD PERVEZ, SHARMEEN ZAKARIA, QURATULAIN MALLICK

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