New Frontiers for Facility Planners - Site Selection Magazine Online

MARCH 2000

SITE SELECTION
NEW FRONTIERS
FOR FACILITY
PLANNERS

• Cover Page

• Industrial Super
Projects
Air Transport

• Rails
Highways
Water Transport

• Intermodal Systems
    Fresh Water Projects
    Power Generation
    Projects

• Hydro Power
    Oil & Gas Projects
    Alternate Energy
    Sources

• Developing a Global
    Power Grid
    Environmental
    Projects
    Global Comm.

• Global Venues
    Urban Development
    High-Rise Projects
    New Urban Forms

• Rapid Transit Systems
    New Towns,
    Redevelopment,
    Mixed-Used Projects
    Project Data Base

• World Development
Federation

• Atlanta 2000 Global
Super Projects
Conference

Industrial Super Projects
There are more than 100 industrial plants -- each costing a billion dollars or more -- now being planned or under construction around the world. Such projects include plants for making computer parts, automobiles and engines, steel and aluminum, chemicals, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, and oil refineries. These are facilities that provide great long-term strength to the economic base of the areas in which they are built. Some typical projects announced in the past two years include:

Canada -- Alcan Aluminum, $1.6 billion aluminum smelter.
USA -- Baytown, Texas. Bayer Corp., $1.5 billion chemicals plant.
USA -- Toledo, Ohio. Chrysler Corp., $1.2 billion sports utility vehicles assembly.
China -- Dupont/BASF, $1 billion nylon intermediates.
Singapore -- Jurong Island. Exxon, $2 billion chemicals.
Brazil -- Sao Bernardo. Ford, $1.1 billion auto plant.
Russia -- Nizhny Novgorod. GAZ/Fiat, $1 billion auto plant.
USA -- Augusta, Ga. Hankook Synthetics, $1.2 billion textile plant.
UK -- Scotland. Hyundai Electronics, $1.4 billion semiconductors.
Israel - Intel, $1.6 billion computer chips.
Turkey -- Istanbul. Jetpa Holdings, $1.6 billion automobiles.
Singapore -- Lucent Technologies, $1 billion semiconductors.
Qatar -- Methanex Corp/Qatar Gen. Petroleum, $1 billion methanol.
USA -- Chandler, Ariz.. Motorola, $1.1 billion semiconductors.
China -- Suzhou City. Motorola, $1.3 billion electronics.
Germany -- Dresden. Motorola, $1.6 billion semiconductors.
USA -- Roseville, Calif. NEC Electronics, $1.4 billion computers.
China -- Ningbo. Asian Paper Ind., $1.5 billion paperboard plant.
Singapore -- Royal Phillips Electronics/Taiwan Semiconductor, $1.2 billion
computer chips.
France -- Toyota Motor Corp., $1.6 billion auto plant.
Taiwan -- Tainan. United Microelectronics, $3 billion semiconductors plant.
Germany - Volkswagen, $3.5 billion auto factory.
Taiwan -- Taichung port. Bayer Corp. proposes $1 billion-plus plastics materials plant.
UAE -- Abu Dhabi. Planned $3 billion Saadiyat Free Zone.
Malaysia -- Sabah. Plans $1 billion pulp and paper mill and tree-planting program.
Thailand -- Chevron plans $1 billion plant.
North Korea -- West Coast. Samsung to build $1 billion industrial park.
Mozambique -- Maputo. SNC-Lavalin and Murray Roberts, $1.3 billion aluminum smelter.

Air Transport
Chicago's O'Hare and Atlanta's Hartsfield are already handling more than 70 million passengers each per year. Some two dozen global airports handle more than 30 million each. Memphis, where FedEx is based, handles two million tons (1.8 million m. tons) of cargo per year. A dozen more airports around the world handle more than one million.

Both passenger traffic and air cargo movements are increasing rapidly. Major airports are hard-pressed to keep up with demand. To meet this growth, a very large worldwide airport construction program is underway.

New airports include:
Greece -- Athens. New $2.3 billion airport to open in 2001.
Germany -- New $4 billion Berlin/Brandenburg airport in final planning stage.
China -- Shanghai/Pudong. $4.8 billion new airport opening 1999-2000.
Korea -- Seoul. New airport on Yongjong Island, near Inchon, planned to open in 2001.
Japan -- A new $35 billion airport and land reclamation project for Tokyo.
Japan -- Chuba/Nagoya. New offshore airport in Ise Bay being planned.
Australia -- New Sydney offshore airport proposed.
Portugal -- Lisbon. New $2 billion airport to open in 2005.
China -- Guangzhou. New $2.4 billion airport to open in 2005.

Major airport expansion projects include:
USA -- New York/JFK. $4 billion new terminal, rail link to Manhattan.
USA -- Miami. $3.5 billion new passenger and cargo area.
USA -- San Francisco. $4 billion new terminal, runway.
Netherlands -- Amsterdam/Schiphol. Several billion in improvements.
UAE -- Abu Dhabi. $2 billion new runway and terminal expansion.
Italy -- Rome/Fiumicino. $3 billion project to be completed by 2005.
Japan -- Kansai/Osaka adding a second runway to airport on artificial island in bay.
UK -- London/Heathrow. New terminal and cargo center.
Switzerland -- Zurich. $1.5 billion upgrade.
Spain -- Madrid/Barajas. $1 billion expansion.
Germany -- Frankfurt. $1.4 billion terminal expansion.
Germany -- Munich. $1 billion second terminal.
Germany -- Düsseldorf. $1 billion terminal and rail station.
USA -- Atlanta/Hartsfield. $1 billion parallel runway No. 5.

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