(in work or completed, 1994)

Year of

Name Location completion Notes

Airports Area

Chek Lap Kok near Lantau Island, Hong Kong 1,248 ha 1997 Artificial island, terminal, bridge, tunnel links

Kansai/Kanku International Airport Osaka, Japan 1994 Artificial island, terminal, rail terminal, bridge

Aqueduct Length (km)

Lesotho Highlands Water Project Lesotho 82 2020 Supply water and power to South Africa

Bridges Length (m)

Akashi-Kaikyo Kobe, Honshu, Japan 1,990 1998 World extreme (suspension)

Store Baelt (Great Belt) Great Belt (Channel), Denmark 1,624 1996 World extreme (suspension)

Tsing Ma Ma Wan-Tsing Yi islands, Hong Kong 1,377 1997 World extreme (double-deck)

Thai-Lao Friendship Laos-Thailand 1,174 1994 First bridge over lower Mekong R.

Pont de Normandie Le Havre, France 856 1995 World extreme (cable-stayed)

Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway Bridge Kisarazu, Japan 590 Structure compl. Oct. 1994

Kap Shui Mun Lantau-Ma Wan islands, Hong Kong 430 1997 Double-deck (road/rail)

Tagus II Lisbon, Portugal 420 1998 Cable-stayed main span; 18-km approaches

Buildings Height (m)

Chongqing (Chungking) Tower Chongqing, China 460 1997 World extreme; 114 stories

Petronas Towers (twin towers) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 450 1996 Twin towers; 88 stories inhabitable space

Vegas World Stratosphere Tower Las Vegas, Nev., U.S. 308 1995 Observation tower

Dams Crest length (m)

Yacyretá-Apipe Paraná River, Argentina-Paraguay 69,600 1998 Hydroelectric power, navigation, irrigation

Gabcikovo (Hrusov-Dunakiliti) Danube River, Hungary-Slovakia 31,500 Environmental controversy

Caruachi Caroni River, Venezuela 4,320 2003

Three Gorges Chang Jiang (Yangtze River), China 1,983 2009 Flood control, 1,130,000 persons displaced

Sardar Sarovar Narmada River, India 1,202 1994 100,000 persons to be displaced

Xingó São Francisco River, Brazil 850 1994 Commercial power generation began Dec. 1994

Seven Oaks Santa Ana River, U.S. 802

Longtan Hong Shui River, China 800 5,400 MW; flood control; navigation

Ertan Yalong River, China 763 1998 2nd largest hydro power proj. in China

Katse Malibamatso, Lesotho 700 1996 Part of Lesotho Highlands Water Project

Cipasang Cimanuk River, Indonesia 640

Highway Length (km)

Guangzhou-Shenzhen (Canton-Shen-chen) China 120 1994 Expressway

Railways Length (km)

Konkan Southwest coastal route, India 760 1995 83 tunnels, 143 major bridges

Guangzhou-Shenzhen China 147 1994 China's first high-speed route

Subways Length (km)

Seoul Metro (extensions) Seoul, South Korea 145 1997

Taipei Taipei, Taiwan 55 1995

Pusan Metro (Line 2 extension) Pusan, South Korea 39 1996 Phase 1: 22.4 km, phase 2: 16.7 km

Dallas Dallas, Texas, U.S. 32 1996 Light Rail

Taegu Metro (Line 1) Taegu, South Korea 28 1997

Saint Petersburg Metro (extensions) St. Petersburg, Russia 23 First part to open late 1994

Inchon Metro Inchon, South Korea 23 1998

Medellin Metro Medellín, Colombia 23 1995

Warsaw Warsaw, Poland 23 1995

Athens Metro (extensions) Athens, Greece 18 1998 Red: 9.2 km, Blue: 8.4 km

Buenos Aires (Tren de la Costa) Buenos Aires, Arg. 15 1995 Rehab of line closed in 1961

Tunnels Length (m)

NEAT (Saint Gotthard) Switzerland 57,000 NEAT = Neue Eisenbahn Alpen Transversale

Channel Tunnel (Eurotunnel) Sangatte-Cheriton, France-U.K. 50,000 1994

NEAT (Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon) Switzerland 38,000 NEAT = Neue Eisenbahn Alpen Transversale

Italy, north of Bolzano near Bolzano, Italy 13,159 1994

Trans-Tokyo Bay I Tokyo, Japan 9,300 1997 World's widest undersea tunnels (14.1 m)

Trans-Tokyo Bay II Tokyo, Japan 9,300 1997 World's widest undersea tunnels (14.1 m)

Store Baelt (twin) Great Belt, Denmark 8,000 1995 Breakthrough Oct. 15, 1994

Saint Clair Sarnia-Port Huron, Canada-U.S. 1,800