At HongKong there was a new tower and a new airport.The layout wasn't good for the airport,that is the North Twr and GMC were on one side of the tower and the South Twr and GMC on the other.The tower was so big that the North runway wasn't visible from the south side and vice versa.There was a lot of opinion that if we had an old Heathrow TWR setup with the TWR controllers in the middle it would have been great.
Solutions varied from an intercom hotline between the two Twr controllers,but the best was very long headset leads.The desks were so bad that you couldn't sit at the consol and see out,without banging your knees.Also from a UK point of view they used blue strips for inbounds and buff for outbounds.That is a major data display change for me.
Sounds like your new tower is a similar one to HK's.It does work but not as well as old LL system.Also in low cloud Cat 1,your inthe cloud base,and the a/c are in the clear.Then they want the SMR for maintenance!
We also had to go through security and catch a bus airside to get to work.Got some sarkie comments passing pax in the staff channel.Also had to get all food x-rayed but that's a whole new topic in itself.Have fun in your new home
