Our biggest challenge: Hong Kong's airport at Chek Lap Kok.

The Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok took six years to build and cost US $20,000,000,000. It is easily one of the largest civil engineering projects in history. The terminal building alone is the biggest covered space in the world.

Chek Lap Kok can handle up to 87,000,000 passengers annually, with 288 check-in counters and 88 flight gates in round-the clock operation. Obviously, both security and facility management at such a complex are daunting tasks. Tyco Fire & Security was proud to provide a solution that aids in the successful handling of both.

The fully integrated access control and access card production system serves 40,000 cardholders with 2,300 card readers and 160,000 alarm points. The system was designed to handle a peak rate of 15,000 cards per hour at the major sites.

Due to the number of alarm points, a special system was developed that combines all the electrical systems within the airport. The system integrates all the major alarm points of the access control, CCTV, fire, SCADA, public address, air traffic control, flight information display, and mechanical building management systems.

An enormous custom software integration project, the system was designed in such a way that once alarm information is processed it is then forwarded to the relevant operator and workstation. Building system integration workstations contain state-of-the-art graphics capabilities allowing maps of the monitored building to be viewed. Each map illustrates the sensors that fall within its area.

Maintaining the system is also a daunting task that our team successfully handles every day, keeping all systems running smoothly and effectively.

The mammoth scope and leading technology of our contribution at Chek Lap Kok prove, once again, that even the largest airports can turn to Tyco Fire & Security when it counts.

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