Guangzhou South Railway Station has a total construction area of 370,000 square meters, including the main building, pillar-free canopy, elevated parking lot (platform) and parking lot, with a total investment of 654.38+0.3 billion yuan. The total steel consumption of the station is 79,000 tons, which is about 1.7 times of the steel structure of the National Stadium (Bird's Nest). In addition, this project uses 654.38+500,000 cubic meters of concrete.
The construction area of Guangzhou South Railway Station is about168,000 square meters (only counting railway passenger facilities such as waiting hall and ticketing hall). The total height of the station building is more than 50 meters, and there is a 64-meter long-span arch structure in the middle. At present, the station building adopts the on-line elevated waiting structure, and the east and west sides of the station are equipped with elevated passenger platforms. The function of the station building is special. Large span and wide viewing angle are the most important spatial design requirements of Guangzhou South Railway Station. The appearance of the majestic building of Guangzhou South Railway Station with Lingnan cultural characteristics is a design artistic conception, which shows that it is not only a super-large railway hub station, but also the architectural structure itself is very artistic. Steel structure engineering is an important part of Guangzhou South Railway Station. The waiting hall, roof and canopy without platform columns of Guangzhou South Railway Station are all new rigid structural systems such as long-span prestressed cable arch cable shell and three-dimensional string arch. Solar panels with an area of about 2000 square meters are installed on the roof of the station, which converts solar energy into electric energy and directly supplies power to the station.