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Recently, the new airport Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport in the German capital Berlin officially went into operation. The construction of this airport, known as “Germany’s Largest Unfinished Project”, has been delayed repeatedly, nine years later than the original schedule.
What happened to made in Germany?
1. Germany’s largest unfinished project
Large airports are standard equipment in large cities.
Berlin is the capital of Germany and the largest city in Germany, but there are only three small airports with outdated facilities.
In order to meet the development needs of Berlin, Germany decided to build a new airport.
After the reunification of the two Germanys in the 1990s, plans for a new Berlin airport began to be brewed.
The new airport is located in Brandenburg near Berlin. It covers an area of 1,470 hectares, equivalent to the size of 2,000 football fields. It is named after Willy Brand, the former Chancellor of Germany and the mayor of West Berlin. Special (Willy Brandt) naming.
Second, the mystery of the unfinished end
What is the reason that the new Berlin airport took 14 years to build?
The airport is a super project, and the preliminary planning and design are extremely important.
However, the planning company responsible for Berlin’s new airport has undergone several changes. In 2010, the planning office IGK-IGR went bankrupt, which caused the planning plan to be changed and changed again, which seriously affected the construction progress.
Planning of the new Berlin Airport
The construction side of the new airport also does not stop. In 2015, the German subsidiary of Imtech, one of the construction companies, declared bankruptcy, which delayed the progress of the project.
During construction and acceptance, the new airport has continuously exposed various quality problems.
In 2011, during the trial operation of the new airport, volunteers and the media discovered problems such as wrong door numbers, incorrect cable installation, and too short escalators, and were forced to postpone the opening time to 2012.
In 2012, one month before it was opened, inspectors discovered a fire alarm system failure.
In September 2019, 250 “minor problems” were found in the already completed Terminal 2 building, and part of the walls and ground had to be demolished and rebuilt.
Berlin’s new airport was caught in a cycle of finding problems—solving problems—discovering problems, which finally dragged on for 9 years.
3. The laughing stock of “Made in Germany”
“Not only Berlin, but the whole of Germany has become a laughing stock.”
Daltroup, the president of Berlin’s new airport, started with self-deprecating at a press conference.
The New York Times commented that the engineering errors, corruption scandals, and related legal proceedings at Berlin’s new airport have eroded Germany’s self-proclaimed “model of efficiency and good governance”.
Agence France-Presse reported that this project has become a “financial black hole and a national laughing stock”, and it has also broken the outside world’s inherent impression of the “high efficiency” of the Germans.
Made in Germany has always given the impression of high precision, high efficiency and high quality. However, the quality problems and corruption scandals of the new Berlin airport have made German manufacturing a laughing stock.
The lessons behind the new Berlin Airport need to be summarized by the Germans.
For the Chinese, it is more of a feeling: the new Berlin Airport was built for 14 years, and the Beijing Daxing International Airport only took 5 years.
Fast, not necessarily good. But it should be fast instead of fast, not slow and slow, this is a problem.
Made in Germany still has something to learn from China, but don’t be too superstitious. Today’s Made in China is worthy of our pride.
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