CLK is situated off the northern coast of Lantau Island, 25 kilometers west of Victoria Island.

Of the 1248-Hectare site some 75 % are reclaimed land and required nearly 200 million metres cubed of fill material.

On opening it's capacity will be some 35 million passengers per year and more when the second runway opens late in 1999. The airfield works, excluding the second runway, comprise some 2.8 million square metres of paved surface. Work started on the construction of the aircraft pavements in 1995 and is planned for completion late in 1999

These Comprise:

• 1.7 million metres square of flexible pavement for the 3.8 km runway 25L/07R and the 28km taxiway system;
• 0.4 million metres square of concrete block pavement;
• 0.7 million metres square of rigid PQ pavement.

With the second runway the pavement area will be 3.7 million square metres.
A simplified layout diagram is shown in Figure 1 below.

The PSA design method was used (later checked with the LEDFAA method) based on a total number of aircraft departures of 3.3 million in the first 20 years rising to 8.4 million at the end of 40 years.

Structural overlays are allowed for in the short term to correct differential settlement, which will occur in the fill areas.

Figure 1: CLK Layout (not to scale)