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4 key innovations and construction trends across airport design

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More than 40,000 airports worldwide facilitate the annual global travel of billions of passengers. Skanska is proud to partner with the world’s busiest airports to transform the aviation industry of today for tomorrow’s travelers. Across the country in Los Angeles, Skanska is involved in the massive expansion efforts at LAX.

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Travel tips and advice for the US: How to annoy a security agent at a US airport

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Decades ago, going through security was as simple as throwing your bags – everything still packed nice and neat – onto a scanner belt and then breezing through a metal detector. It’s no secret that going through the TSA security line is a drag. Not having your ID and boarding pass out.

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How to keep airports functional during construction

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Yet that was precisely the challenge before Delta Air Lines at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) as they embarked upon redeveloping Terminals 2 and 3. It starts, of course, with what travelers experience as they pass through an airport with ongoing construction.

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Expanding the exterior footprint

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One example of this is C3, a Gensler spec project in Los Angeles which transforms the border between an office building and a parking structure into a curated series of outdoor spaces. Acoustic buffers plus solar shading.

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British ‘jihadi rapper’ who posed with a severed head and was suspected of being ISIS ‘Beatle’ Jihadi John is arrested in Spain by anti-terror police

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‘Those arrested adopted iron-clad security measures, both in their journey from North Africa to our territory and in the movements they made in Almería. In 2013 Abdel Bary (pictured) travelled to Syria to fight with ISIS, becoming one of the earliest foreign fighters to join the terror group.

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Queue no more: New York’s Empire State Building gets a revamp

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And this is before you even get to the security checkpoint. At one time, it was thought dirigibles would become a thing, as far as air travel was concerned. Qantas flies daily from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to New York via Los Angeles. metre model of the building that is begging for an Instagram-ready selfie.

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Cruise ships and coronavirus: Ship cluster together at sea with crew still stuck on board

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Melinda Mann, 25, a youth program manager for Holland America, spent more than 50 days without stepping on dry land before finally disembarking from the Koningsdam ship Friday in Los Angeles. For 21 hours a day, Mann remained isolated in a 14-square- metre cruise cabin that is smaller than her bedroom in her Midland, Georgia, home.

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