The skylight of the interchange center of the newly-built Xiamen North Railway Station in East China's Fujian Province was completed by China Railway Construction Corporation Limited early this year.
It is currently the largest side-hung modular inductive intelligent skylight that can slide open and closed in the domestic station houses still under construction.
A bird's-eye view of the herringbone-shaped skylight of the interchange center of the newly-built Xiamen North Railway Station in East China's Fujian Province [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
With an area of about 1,400 square meters, the herringbone-shaped skylight has a height difference of 2.6 meters and consists of 420 180-kilogram prefabricated modules.
The weather sensors installed by the side of the skylight are capable of automatically adjusting the opening and closing angles and times as well as the curtain coverage area of the skylight in responding to the real-time monitoring data of light, wind, rainfall and temperature differences between indoor and outdoor, so as to provide a comfortable interchange environment for passengers while realizing energy saving and efficiency.
According to data of past climate conditions in Xiamen, the skylight is expected to help reduce ventilation system operation for 40 days annually, which is equivalent to a reduction 14.13 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year.
An inside view of the skylight of the interchange center of the newly-built Xiamen North Railway Station [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
Innovative equipment and technologies such as a three-dimensional laser scanner and building information modeling (BIM) technology were adopted during construction to ensure accurate engineering and installation.
The newly-built Xiamen North Railway Station is the most difficult-to-build station of the Fuzhou-Xiamen high-speed railway, China's first line that crosses the sea at high-speed.
Covering an area of 0.25 million square meters, the station is located at the north of the old Xiamen North Station.
Once operational, it will feature 13 platforms serving 27 railway lines and have an annual transport capacity of 50 million passengers.
The station is expected to support realization of the one-hour travel circle of Xiamen and Fuzhou and the half-an-hour traffic circle of Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, which will promote the rapid development of coastal cities in Fujian.
(Executive editor: Xie Yunxiao)
