The most impressive part about the terminal building is not just the jacks that you mentioned, but every single pipe, cable, pump, drain, sewage, and all other utility connections including fuel for aircraft had to be designed to be flexible and adjustable. The devil is in the details.
ground settlement is a real thing apparently as proven with the island they didn't pack the ground done enough making the island and she's dropping still because of it
Love the shout out to the kiddos -- thanks for remaining so down to earth and relatable, Fred. Keep on with this wonderful journey; we're all here for it!
I am not a civil engineer, and even I could have told you about the perils of combining LEGO and plasticine in your construction. Even if it settles evenly, it takes extreme effort to get the plasticine out of the holes afterwards.
@@drunkpaulocosta Oh, yes. I'm solidly in the don't-mix-plasticine-with-my-LEGO camp, not the don't-put-LEGO-in-my-plasticine one. No plasticine in my house! Also, there's carpet.
As a Dutchie, we build our airports under water rather than on it... Schiphol airport is located on the bottom of a lake that has seen many naval battles centuries ago.
Engineer here. Completely different soil/sand/ground condition. These aren’t the same. The one in Japan is in a way more extreme environment. Was almost impossible to achieve. We studied these.
First of its kind, built not only in the ocean but also in the middle of an earthquake zone and yet it was finished in half the time required to expand Berlin airport and ended up being a functional airport, too. Impressive!
on land, near to every possible supports, no earthquake, no water to cross.. and in recent time aka more advanced technology. Germany takes more time to repair a pothole on the street than japan build a whole street.
You're a talented presenter and narrator but I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to follow your message without the amazing model. With the model in hand - it all makes sense!! Thanks kids!!
The school I attended wanted a new building but the land was marsh. They dug a hole and filled it with dirt. Then they piled 25’ of dirt on top. When I asked they said the extra dirt was the weight of the building to be built. They left the dirt for over a year for everything to settle onto the marsh like bottom. They removed the dirt and built the building. It’s still there today no cracks or major settlement.
I was at this airport in 2019. I thought it was a marvelous airport, given its age. The only thing I didn't like was the color of the reddish interior paint. By changing to another color would probably make a huge difference!
It's not $40bn. You took the original cost 1.5T JPY, converted it to USD and then accounted for inflation, where it would be more accurate to account for inflation 1.88T JPY and then convert it which is $12.6B, which is actually less than the $15B with 1994 exchange rates. It's weird to convert it and then use unrelated inflation, but also Japan's very low inflation makes other calculations weird Also, I have wondered why on Google Maps if you go in 3D low down there's a discrepency on the height it is and the height it expects it to be, hadn't seen it anywhere else, and the sinking could be why
Very intelligent comment about the hodgepodge of cost conversion used by the video author! Even allowing for the 'crazy' inflation in Japan of the last 3 years, we are still looking at less than 3%. If we are to incorporate the 30-year time frame, and using actual JPN inflation rate, then the 'present' cost of the Kansai Airport would likely be quite close to the original cost.
yeah for exchange rates would be more accurate to use the purchasing power parity exchange rate which would make it 19.85 billion USD today [using the 1.88T as today's JPY estimate].
As a child i remember watching the entre episode on construction of Kansai airport it was so amazing they built this almost 30 yrs ago and there is video on how those jacks works and lifts the airport. it is automated based on sensor amazing engineering
I'm glad that Kansai is getting a makeover. Despite being revolutionary, the airport is feeling dated... 1990s dated. It feels like stepping back in time when one arrives.
I’ve been using KIX since 1994. It was so modern back then but it’s showing its age now. The cosmetic improvements so far are laughable but we’ll see if they plan to get serious in the near future. One thing I always appreciate is food costs almost as much as it does outside the airport. No ridiculous airport prices as in some European and US counterparts.
Japan: We have the longest airport terminal at sea. The Netherlands: Brother, we have been living below sea level for centuries, 26%of our land is below sea level. We practically make our own land.
and Japan still managed to actually build a gigantic structure at sea and is still operational, also japan has not just water everywhere but tsunamis, earthquakes.... so the Netherlands doesn't compete.
@@d.b.cooper1 They get other types of storms, the reason for the modern addition to the mouth of some river. Also, there is a difference between building in the sea and building _below_ sea level, like at New Orleans. A failure means everything is flooded while a "tidal wave" withdraws itself, it is _above_ sea level.
I was at this airport just last week. I didn't think twice about the the airport itself, but now I have a whole new perspective and appreciation for it
Noise levels basically. Immediately at the shoreline are residential areas. You'd have to vacate a lot of people and Japan isn't very good at doing that. I believe it doesn't have the laws to vacate owned land for public infrastructure, unlike countries such as Singapore.
2:28 “This is a cross section of Osaka Bay represented here by a LEGO model that my kids have made. Now they only made this on the condition that I would give them a shout out in a TH-cam video and would help make them famous…” Mission accomplished. It’s always nice when a TH-cam channel finally achieves something worthwhile. 👍
It is insane that Fred is coming to us with all this information, all done on his own - while still being a father and doing amazing at that. Like this man has no weaknesses.
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I won’t lie, but the B1M is what keeps me sane as a cyber sec person Edit: this video really shows why the best thing/items are made in JAPAN RESPECT To all the engineers ❤
@@tejave0ojnc bro, the internet is full of morons like you, and they always make me laugh. You give me a stupid example, of one thing that’s broken, from one car company, on a single model of vehicle. Cars are made of up 100,000s of parts, from 10,000 different supplied and manufacturers. And you’re saying ONE whole part broke?! Like that’s special? And what? Chinese, American, German, Swedish, Dutch, British, Indian, Thai, Swiss manufacturing is perfect? All the best shit comes from Japan. The best cars come from Japan. Some of the best watches come from Japan. Please go buy a car. And before you get in for the first time, please CUT your own brake lines. Then go test the top speed. Thanks.
@@benwilkins2781 "A class-action lawsuit was filed against Toyota in 2020 alleging that the brake booster pump assembly in certain Toyota vehicles could fail to operate properly, causing the brakes to not engage when the brake pedal was pressed."
Fascinating. I live in Japan and use KIX regularly. I just wished they made it closer to the city if they were thinking of making it on water. It’s almost 90 min from Kyoto, a major tourist destination. Hong Kong’s airport on the hand is 20 min away.
0:11 is wrong, im not sure if its the oldest but lelystad airport in the netherlands was build in the polder, which is reclaimed land from the ocean, and it was officialy opened in 1973, which is a lot earlier than kansai airport
Interestingly, Kobe Airport which is also built on reclaimed land and not too far north of Kansai in Osaka Bay doesn’t appear to be having the same issues. I think eventually (we’re talking decades), Kobe could be built out more to take over from Kansai. Kobe is currently domestic and has just the one shorter runway at 8,000ft vs 11,000ft at Kansai. Kobe did have a lot of local opposition though when it was proposed and didn’t open until 2006.
Kansai sinks because it is so large, making Kobe bigger risks a simple repeat. I think, unless we have drastic changes in how we travel and aircraft tech they will keep raising it up. There is no other place to fit it on, youd need 4 or more airports around the city to fill in for it and even if divided by 4 the size is still so big that there will be no 4 good places to rebuild it. Rebuilding is also going to be more expensive than raising it. The airport is basically responsible for around +30% or more of Osakas revenue either directly or indirectly. It is also important for the rest of the region and the japanese government as they would risk loosing a well build up international city used to hoast al manner of events year round. So I believe it s here to saty for at least 50 more years and is only going to go away if we somehow advance in our tech to a point where we can reduce the size of airports without losing anything
Kansai was meant to be where Kobe airport is. That was the preferred location. The locals said no, so they went with the current location. After Kobe saw how much travel $$ Osaka was getting from Kansai, they wanted their own.
It would make sense if Kansai International was over capacity like how Tokyo needs Haneda and Narita to meet runway demands but for now, it's probably more cost effective to keep filling in one airport than to work on two airports
I think it would be a good idea if Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Flanders organize a meeting about one or two airports at sea. If you build wind turbine fields, why not also an airport?
What a beautiful product of Engineering. I'll be forever grateful to @The B1M for teaching me about such a fundamental aspect of the modern human society and appreciate all the work that is done to make such projects possible.
This airport has been sinking for 30 years. Why is this news today? The airport is built with "jacks" to raise the airport from the sinking floor. The only question remains, how much more can they jack up before they run out of room?
They can just keep stacking jacks. Adding structure from underneath is how construction cranes can reach incredible heights. As long as the load bearing structure underneath remains vertical enough there's not a definite limit to how high they can adjust.
Well because it has so far lasted 30 years and it was a ground breaking (Or sea breaking!) project, it's just an update of how they overcome the original and subsequent problems it is not a criticism!?!
Why using "jacks" to raise some of the buildings? After 30 years modern buildings mostly need a complete update. So why not bulldoze everything to a plain but higher level and build a new airport on top? If you make the new level high enough the next "leveling up" might be due then in 50 years. If you take in account, that you not only have to work against the sinking ground, but also against the rising sea level.
I was there a couple of months ago. You wouldn’t even know it was sinking and it was quite a surreal feeling knowing it was man made. Amazing engineering feat. And the terminal is very long.
I've flown into Kansai several times since it was built. It is a very nice airport but a long way into Osaka proper (much like Narita is too far from Tokyo). So over the last few years we've found it easier to arrange our flights so that we can arrive in good old Itami/Osaka airport which is much closer to both Osaka and Kobe.
Just was there in August. Second time using that Airport in the 4 times I been to Japan. I hope it survives for a while longer. The ease at how I can get to mass transit is incredible. The rail station is connected directly to the station. There is no way to tell that the airport is sinking. I believe I remember seeing a documentary on cable tv (back when cable tv provided high quality fact based documentaries instead of weird fake documentaries about aliens or “reality” shows), that they have the ability to raise the airport up using a lot of gigantic hydraulic jacks.
I lived in Japan for a few years. I went through Kansai Int Airport many times. Love the place. I watched a doco on the buildings there and the jacks that support them many years ago.
beg the question verb 1. To engage in the logical fallacy of begging the question (petitio principii). 2. To raise or prompt a question. same thing, john.
Went through this airport just over a year ago, absolutely beautiful design and was pleasant to be in. I did notice that it was a lovely temperature, so cool to learn it isn't from AC (like every other building over there was!)
TH-camrs adding their faces to supposedly informative videos typically have narcissistic inclinations and provide less of a value per average minute of the video (as far as useful information goes). In the case of this video, the ratio of useful information to filler/water (no pun) is borderline.
Commenters who extract supposedly universal laws from small sample sizes typically have insufferable inclinations and provide less value per average word of the comment (as far as useful information goes). In the case of this comment, the ratio of useful information to filler/hot air (no pun) in borderline.
@misterscottintheway the comment, of course, was addressed to the author of the video. However, you've managed to provide even less of a value in your response that I did with my comment. Since you appear as someone who also desperately needs some help, I'll happily provide it to you. Here's the Wikipedia's definition of the condition you might be suffering from: "Graphomania (from Ancient Greek: γρᾰ́φειν, gráphein, lit. 'to write';[1] and μᾰνῐ́ᾱ, maníā, lit. 'madness, frenzy'),[2] also known as scribomania, is an obsessive impulse to write.[3][4] When used in a specific psychiatric context, it labels a morbid mental condition which results in writing rambling and confused statements, often degenerating into a meaningless succession of words or even nonsense then called graphorrhea[5] (see hypergraphia). "
@@thenuad Oh, you mean like you accusing him of having narcissistic inclinations? And what is your definitive metric for determining value per average minute on YT videos? I’m going to need the formula. Or just don’t watch since you obviously are much too busy being a hypocritical bitch with zero self awareness.
First time viewer. Quite a well done video... Super production value, GR8T hosting job and quite interesting. I haven't gushed this much since the last time I stepped on a land mind (yes, that was in poor taste). Cheers from So.Ca.USA 3rd house on the left (please call before stopping by)
I think it was during that Typhoon Jebi when the container ship got loose and smashed into the long bridge destroying a section of one span. I also never noticed the terminal was that long since there is a tram so you don't actually end up walking further than any other international airport
Yes, it was a ship refilling the avgas tanks at the airport. It was knocked lose of the pier and hit the bridge. They had one side of the bridge open for traffic, but it was limited to emergency vehicles and buses shuttling people across from the train station on the mainland end of the bridge. The last time I was at Kansai was shortly after they reopened the train tracks over the bridge.
I wonder if the second runway construction methodology had changed and improved compared to the original phase. Which the new land fill will theoretically last longer.
Soooo, very high sunk costs
I see what you did there ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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I remember all the documentaries about this when it was built. Such an impressive bit of engineering.
It’s amazing 🔥
Same. Back when Discovery had documentaries.
Right? When we flew from there I was excited because it felt like meeting a celebrity after seeing it on Discovery channel and other shows.
@@pilotman012 hah, yeah. It was similar on my first trip to Boston after seeing all the 'big dig' docs. :)
Well if it sinks, I wouldn't call it impressive though...
I flew a 767 into this airport multiple times in the 1990s- it’s an incredible engineering feat!
Wow you are rich
@@NoName-yi3oz or he’s a pilot
those 2 go hand in hand@@nick-team-kinetic-energy
Yeah I flew a 747 in a few times nice views
@@cheesecroissant8843 not in Canada
Looks like something I’d make in cities skylines 😂
I think we all have made something like this,
I once made a DLC airport area that required reclaiming some coastline so I feel you
You mean you don't HAVE to build the airport in water?!?!?!
/jk
Everyone has tried to create an artificial island airport in Cities and inadvertently flooded their whole city in the process
Who’s gonna waste valuable land mass on a damn airport in the game 😂
The most impressive part about the terminal building is not just the jacks that you mentioned, but every single pipe, cable, pump, drain, sewage, and all other utility connections including fuel for aircraft had to be designed to be flexible and adjustable. The devil is in the details.
ground settlement is a real thing apparently as proven with the island they didn't pack the ground done enough making the island and she's dropping still because of it
Funny you say that
Love the shout out to the kiddos -- thanks for remaining so down to earth and relatable, Fred. Keep on with this wonderful journey; we're all here for it!
I am not a civil engineer, and even I could have told you about the perils of combining LEGO and plasticine in your construction. Even if it settles evenly, it takes extreme effort to get the plasticine out of the holes afterwards.
😅😂😅😊
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Yeah but with the Lego it's invasion proof if everyone is barefoot when they invade.
@@drunkpaulocosta Oh, yes. I'm solidly in the don't-mix-plasticine-with-my-LEGO camp, not the don't-put-LEGO-in-my-plasticine one. No plasticine in my house!
Also, there's carpet.
@RasMosiSomeone missed something
Best part about this video. A Dad saying he loves his kids infront of 3.35 million subs. Yer one of the good guys, Fred.
damn right 😍😍
We need more visuals by the Mills Modelers in future videos
@@davethetallguy Forget Brilliant helping you learn, eh!
Its the 21st century, this shouldn't be noteworthy anymore, sad that it still is in a lot of countries.
It's good for views, appeals to the emotions, classic ethos.
Your ability to pump out high quality videos on the regular is fantastic
Are you indicating that B1M has a very high see level?
As a Dutchie, we build our airports under water rather than on it...
Schiphol airport is located on the bottom of a lake that has seen many naval battles centuries ago.
And Lelystad Airport was built 20 years before Kansai Itl.
man learn english it's below sea level, not underwater. why are so many europoors inserting their countries in a video about Japan?
Waaron bouwen ze niet gewoon een dam
Engineer here. Completely different soil/sand/ground condition. These aren’t the same. The one in Japan is in a way more extreme environment. Was almost impossible to achieve. We studied these.
@@PlayWithMePlease I know, it was just a fun remark 😉
First of its kind, built not only in the ocean but also in the middle of an earthquake zone and yet it was finished in half the time required to expand Berlin airport and ended up being a functional airport, too. Impressive!
on land, near to every possible supports, no earthquake, no water to cross.. and in recent time aka more advanced technology. Germany takes more time to repair a pothole on the street than japan build a whole street.
2:51 great work kids!
That was the Cutest shout out.
PS love the lego model
giving a shout out to his kids for the lego model, and then seconds later calling the model "very crude"
@@t1mericksonbrutal
They really made the Ukrainian flag accidentally 💀
I want him to be my daddy
Well except that his children are 25 and 28
You're a talented presenter and narrator but I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to follow your message without the amazing model. With the model in hand - it all makes sense!! Thanks kids!!
yeah but he wanted to use the amazing model so deal with it🤣
here have a cookie🍪
Fav video so far! Lego and a shout out to the kids was great! Plus the lego really helped me understand this much more! Thanks!
The school I attended wanted a new building but the land was marsh. They dug a hole and filled it with dirt. Then they piled 25’ of dirt on top. When I asked they said the extra dirt was the weight of the building to be built. They left the dirt for over a year for everything to settle onto the marsh like bottom. They removed the dirt and built the building. It’s still there today no cracks or major settlement.
I was at this airport in 2019. I thought it was a marvelous airport, given its age. The only thing I didn't like was the color of the reddish interior paint. By changing to another color would probably make a huge difference!
It's not $40bn. You took the original cost 1.5T JPY, converted it to USD and then accounted for inflation, where it would be more accurate to account for inflation 1.88T JPY and then convert it which is $12.6B, which is actually less than the $15B with 1994 exchange rates. It's weird to convert it and then use unrelated inflation, but also Japan's very low inflation makes other calculations weird
Also, I have wondered why on Google Maps if you go in 3D low down there's a discrepency on the height it is and the height it expects it to be, hadn't seen it anywhere else, and the sinking could be why
Very intelligent comment about the hodgepodge of cost conversion used by the video author! Even allowing for the 'crazy' inflation in Japan of the last 3 years, we are still looking at less than 3%. If we are to incorporate the 30-year time frame, and using actual JPN inflation rate, then the 'present' cost of the Kansai Airport would likely be quite close to the original cost.
yeah for exchange rates would be more accurate to use the purchasing power parity exchange rate which would make it 19.85 billion USD today [using the 1.88T as today's JPY estimate].
@edata5898 nice
Interesting
Yes infact, Japan is the only country with deflation over so many years!
I remember when this airport was first designed, the constant sinking was taken into account, so saying it's sinking now is nothing new.
Nice video! I’ve been to kansai airport half a year ago and it was fantastic!
Steins gate
I remember getting the train out over the bridge. It BLEW MY MIND!
As a child i remember watching the entre episode on construction of Kansai airport it was so amazing they built this almost 30 yrs ago and there is video on how those jacks works and lifts the airport. it is automated based on sensor amazing engineering
I'm glad that Kansai is getting a makeover. Despite being revolutionary, the airport is feeling dated... 1990s dated. It feels like stepping back in time when one arrives.
That's still modern. 30+ yrs isn't reason enough to update it. Maybe they can update it by 2050.
I’ve been using KIX since 1994. It was so modern back then but it’s showing its age now. The cosmetic improvements so far are laughable but we’ll see if they plan to get serious in the near future. One thing I always appreciate is food costs almost as much as it does outside the airport. No ridiculous airport prices as in some European and US counterparts.
amazing that japan is doing this. But so sweet you giving your kids a shout out!
Love the work!
Japan: We have the longest airport terminal at sea.
The Netherlands: Brother, we have been living below sea level for centuries, 26%of our land is below sea level. We practically make our own land.
and Japan still managed to actually build a gigantic structure at sea and is still operational, also japan has not just water everywhere but tsunamis, earthquakes.... so the Netherlands doesn't compete.
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They did this long ago using only wind as the power source.
No engines, trucks or other _earth movers_
You also don't get typhoons/earthquakes like the Japanese do though.
@@d.b.cooper1
They get other types of storms, the reason for the modern addition to the mouth of some river.
Also, there is a difference between building in the sea and building _below_ sea level, like at New Orleans. A failure means everything is flooded while a "tidal wave" withdraws itself, it is _above_ sea level.
Schiphol is actually in a polder too, that's why he had to say that Kansai International Airport is the first on reclaimed land in the ocean.
I was at this airport just last week. I didn't think twice about the the airport itself, but now I have a whole new perspective and appreciation for it
Just curious why was it built so far out in the bay? Wouldn’t it be better and cheaper if it was built closer to land?
Noise levels basically. Immediately at the shoreline are residential areas. You'd have to vacate a lot of people and Japan isn't very good at doing that. I believe it doesn't have the laws to vacate owned land for public infrastructure, unlike countries such as Singapore.
B1M is definitely the best construction chanel. Will you guys visit the 1,7 Billion doller tunell,Rogfast in Norway when it is compleated?
Lol he doesn't work construction 😂😂😂
@@RealMTBAddict no but he does videos on it, espesialy uncommom buildings and uncommon/interesting building methods.
2:28 “This is a cross section of Osaka Bay represented here by a LEGO model that my kids have made. Now they only made this on the condition that I would give them a shout out in a TH-cam video and would help make them famous…”
Mission accomplished. It’s always nice when a TH-cam channel finally achieves something worthwhile. 👍
As a Dutchman I always chuckle when people panic about things "sinking" below sea level 😄
Now that was some quality Lego making. Kudos
I can't believe this airport is now 30 years old. I still remember watching all the documentaries growing up on how groundbreaking it was.
It is insane that Fred is coming to us with all this information, all done on his own - while still being a father and doing amazing at that. Like this man has no weaknesses.
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Awesome video as always. B1M is one of favorite channels on TH-cam, yall never miss. Keep up the great work and thank you🙌
I won’t lie, but the B1M is what keeps me sane as a cyber sec person
Edit: this video really shows why the best thing/items are made in JAPAN
RESPECT To all the engineers ❤
I firmly believe the best things are made in Japan. Like my car.
@@sshah2545 you mean the brakes on Toyota that don't stop the car?
@@tejave0ojncare you referring to the incident where the foot mat got caught on the pedal?
@@tejave0ojnc bro, the internet is full of morons like you, and they always make me laugh.
You give me a stupid example, of one thing that’s broken, from one car company, on a single model of vehicle.
Cars are made of up 100,000s of parts, from 10,000 different supplied and manufacturers. And you’re saying ONE whole part broke?! Like that’s special?
And what? Chinese, American, German, Swedish, Dutch, British, Indian, Thai, Swiss manufacturing is perfect?
All the best shit comes from Japan. The best cars come from Japan. Some of the best watches come from Japan.
Please go buy a car. And before you get in for the first time, please CUT your own brake lines. Then go test the top speed. Thanks.
@@benwilkins2781 "A class-action lawsuit was filed against Toyota in 2020 alleging that the brake booster pump assembly in certain Toyota vehicles could fail to operate properly, causing the brakes to not engage when the brake pedal was pressed."
*After this and the 1 hour special*
I need more aiport content! 🛫
Eyy another post finally about my countrry! never fails to amaze me
Landing at this airport is one of the coolest experiences of my life, such a surreal approach
Excellent content
Happy New Year!
02:30 LOVE THIS, GREAT DAD
Fascinating. I live in Japan and use KIX regularly. I just wished they made it closer to the city if they were thinking of making it on water. It’s almost 90 min from Kyoto, a major tourist destination. Hong Kong’s airport on the hand is 20 min away.
0:11 is wrong, im not sure if its the oldest but lelystad airport in the netherlands was build in the polder, which is reclaimed land from the ocean, and it was officialy opened in 1973, which is a lot earlier than kansai airport
Polders, being remove-water islands, are often forgotten next to its Sand Fill counterparts.
Make a video about Flevoland B1M!
Daily working in this airport, Such a great manmade architecture.
0:17 "in the world" - only 17 seconds in!!! 🤣🤣🤣
He went to the Jeremy Clarkson school🤭
Thank you😂
I like when Fred does his usual presenting style whilst sat down at a desk in his office.
Really awesome airport. Flew into there from Korea. You feel like your going to land in the ocean when approaching 😂
I was just at this airport a few days ago, it's honestly super impressive to land there.
Interestingly, Kobe Airport which is also built on reclaimed land and not too far north of Kansai in Osaka Bay doesn’t appear to be having the same issues. I think eventually (we’re talking decades), Kobe could be built out more to take over from Kansai. Kobe is currently domestic and has just the one shorter runway at 8,000ft vs 11,000ft at Kansai. Kobe did have a lot of local opposition though when it was proposed and didn’t open until 2006.
Kansai sinks because it is so large, making Kobe bigger risks a simple repeat.
I think, unless we have drastic changes in how we travel and aircraft tech they will keep raising it up.
There is no other place to fit it on, youd need 4 or more airports around the city to fill in for it and even if divided by 4 the size is still so big that there will be no 4 good places to rebuild it.
Rebuilding is also going to be more expensive than raising it. The airport is basically responsible for around +30% or more of Osakas revenue either directly or indirectly. It is also important for the rest of the region and the japanese government as they would risk loosing a well build up international city used to hoast al manner of events year round.
So I believe it s here to saty for at least 50 more years and is only going to go away if we somehow advance in our tech to a point where we can reduce the size of airports without losing anything
Kansai was meant to be where Kobe airport is. That was the preferred location.
The locals said no, so they went with the current location.
After Kobe saw how much travel $$ Osaka was getting from Kansai, they wanted their own.
It would make sense if Kansai International was over capacity like how Tokyo needs Haneda and Narita to meet runway demands but for now, it's probably more cost effective to keep filling in one airport than to work on two airports
I think it would be a good idea if Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Flanders organize a meeting about one or two airports at sea. If you build wind turbine fields, why not also an airport?
Love that you mention your kids, it made me smile 😃
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Flew into that airport this spring, it was a really cool experience!
Holocene and Pleistocene are time periods, not geological layers.
What a beautiful product of Engineering.
I'll be forever grateful to @The B1M for teaching me about such a fundamental aspect of the modern human society and appreciate all the work that is done to make such projects possible.
1:10 I eat at that McDonalds all the time. 😂
They can build a ring around the island. The Dutch can help.
Did anyone think of Venice during this presentation? Venice is gorgeous. This is an amazing innovation. Yet, they are both in a water environment.
Japanese engineering is amazing! Shinkansen 60 years. Earthquake proof (to a certain level) buildings. Cars etc etc. I love Japan!
This airport has been sinking for 30 years. Why is this news today? The airport is built with "jacks" to raise the airport from the sinking floor. The only question remains, how much more can they jack up before they run out of room?
Just raise the height of the dyke. Who cares if the runway ends up below sea level.
They can just keep stacking jacks. Adding structure from underneath is how construction cranes can reach incredible heights. As long as the load bearing structure underneath remains vertical enough there's not a definite limit to how high they can adjust.
They can retract one jack, build a new foundation and rise it again. Leg by leg, they can raise it indefinitely.
Well because it has so far lasted 30 years and it was a ground breaking (Or sea breaking!) project, it's just an update of how they overcome the original and subsequent problems it is not a criticism!?!
Why using "jacks" to raise some of the buildings? After 30 years modern buildings mostly need a complete update. So why not bulldoze everything to a plain but higher level and build a new airport on top?
If you make the new level high enough the next "leveling up" might be due then in 50 years. If you take in account, that you not only have to work against the sinking ground, but also against the rising sea level.
The best part of this entire video is shouting out your kids😂 2:36
Venice in Italy was built the same way thousand years ago with tens of thousands of logs rammed into the muddy sea ground - and it's still standing.
lil venice isn't an airport
Venice was built on marshland, not 18m of water. Slight difference.
@@briansegall1084huge tremendous difference in engineering pov.
As always, a nicely thorough presentation..... 👌
11:25 I see what you did there
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@@coolguy-bs7krcan say --> Kansai
@@coolguy-bs7kr "can say" -> kansai
I was there a couple of months ago. You wouldn’t even know it was sinking and it was quite a surreal feeling knowing it was man made. Amazing engineering feat. And the terminal is very long.
WOW, MUY INTERESANTE FRED. 😊 TE SALUDO DESDE ARGENTINA
I've flown into Kansai several times since it was built. It is a very nice airport but a long way into Osaka proper (much like Narita is too far from Tokyo). So over the last few years we've found it easier to arrange our flights so that we can arrive in good old Itami/Osaka airport which is much closer to both Osaka and Kobe.
Just was there in August. Second time using that Airport in the 4 times I been to Japan. I hope it survives for a while longer. The ease at how I can get to mass transit is incredible. The rail station is connected directly to the station.
There is no way to tell that the airport is sinking. I believe I remember seeing a documentary on cable tv (back when cable tv provided high quality fact based documentaries instead of weird fake documentaries about aliens or “reality” shows), that they have the ability to raise the airport up using a lot of gigantic hydraulic jacks.
A hug from Mr Fred would make everything alright.
Wat is it sinking about?
Hello, Zis is ze German Coastguard.
It's just depressed. 🤣🫤
Didn't expect a Berlitz reference here
😂😂😂😂 I said the same
I see what you did there 😅
Nice video and nice narration.
I love KIX!
It was my first point of contact with Japan and it had a great first impression.
Japan truly living in the future, they managed to create underwater airport
Love the B1M. Please come check out the Billion dollar + power station we’re building in Australia.
We will 🙌
I lived in Japan for a few years. I went through Kansai Int Airport many times. Love the place. I watched a doco on the buildings there and the jacks that support them many years ago.
What are you sinking about?
I had the same reaction :))
Very enjoyable as always 👍
8:42 Ashfelt? It's spelled 'asphalt'. There's no 'ash' part to be pronounced.
Dude is British chill out
ayyyyeee nice dadding dad man, just super cool the sand and the detail your kids gonna go far and be as famous as they want bro
1:33 It does NOt "beg the question", a phrase with a different meaning. It does RAISE the QUESTION
lol get a job
beg the question
verb
1. To engage in the logical fallacy of begging the question (petitio principii).
2. To raise or prompt a question.
same thing, john.
@johnl5316 people need to stop "correcting" things when they are actually the ones in the wrong. Do your research before commenting dude 🤦
Forget the airport, that osaka bay cross section model is the real engineering here! 🙌
Went through this airport just over a year ago, absolutely beautiful design and was pleasant to be in. I did notice that it was a lovely temperature, so cool to learn it isn't from AC (like every other building over there was!)
TH-camrs adding their faces to supposedly informative videos typically have narcissistic inclinations and provide less of a value per average minute of the video (as far as useful information goes). In the case of this video, the ratio of useful information to filler/water (no pun) is borderline.
Commenters who extract supposedly universal laws from small sample sizes typically have insufferable inclinations and provide less value per average word of the comment (as far as useful information goes). In the case of this comment, the ratio of useful information to filler/hot air (no pun) in borderline.
@misterscottintheway the comment, of course, was addressed to the author of the video. However, you've managed to provide even less of a value in your response that I did with my comment. Since you appear as someone who also desperately needs some help, I'll happily provide it to you. Here's the Wikipedia's definition of the condition you might be suffering from:
"Graphomania (from Ancient Greek: γρᾰ́φειν, gráphein, lit. 'to write';[1] and μᾰνῐ́ᾱ, maníā, lit. 'madness, frenzy'),[2] also known as scribomania, is an obsessive impulse to write.[3][4] When used in a specific psychiatric context, it labels a morbid mental condition which results in writing rambling and confused statements, often degenerating into a meaningless succession of words or even nonsense then called graphorrhea[5] (see hypergraphia). "
@@thenuadyou use Wikipedia to back up your idiocy
@@JamesF-v4x Thank you for a great example of a baseless accusation.
@@thenuad Oh, you mean like you accusing him of having narcissistic inclinations? And what is your definitive metric for determining value per average minute on YT videos? I’m going to need the formula. Or just don’t watch since you obviously are much too busy being a hypocritical bitch with zero self awareness.
but if they keep raising the airport by building it thicker then isn't that also increasing the weight of it, so wouldn't it sink faster?
First time viewer. Quite a well done video... Super production value, GR8T hosting job and quite interesting. I haven't gushed this much since the last time I stepped on a land mind (yes, that was in poor taste). Cheers from So.Ca.USA 3rd house on the left (please call before stopping by)
Amazing content man! Keep it up.
Thank you B1M
Thank you! This is good to learn
One of the earliest documentaries I ever watched was this airport 🤗❤️
I think it was during that Typhoon Jebi when the container ship got loose and smashed into the long bridge destroying a section of one span. I also never noticed the terminal was that long since there is a tram so you don't actually end up walking further than any other international airport
Yes, it was a ship refilling the avgas tanks at the airport. It was knocked lose of the pier and hit the bridge. They had one side of the bridge open for traffic, but it was limited to emergency vehicles and buses shuttling people across from the train station on the mainland end of the bridge.
The last time I was at Kansai was shortly after they reopened the train tracks over the bridge.
Thank you for sharing this airport story. 😊
Thank you! Great video as always
Loved the shout out.
I'm so happy that you have kids! Huge Blessing!
I wonder if the second runway construction methodology had changed and improved compared to the original phase.
Which the new land fill will theoretically last longer.
I see a B1M video and i have to watch it.
Could listen to Fred talk for hours.
I hope they maintain this one in the future. I visit up to a dozen times a year.
Huh. Flew in and out of Kansai a few times. Never knew that it was sinking. Great video!