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The long anticipated Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport was officially opened by the Queen on 14th March 2008. Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 is state of the art, in terms of how the structure has been built and it's impact on the environment. |
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Heathrow Airport Terminal 5... |
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• Terminal 5 Shopping and Dining
• Terminal 5 Security
• Terminal 5 Transport
• Terminal 5 Baggage
• Terminal 5 and The Environment |
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Operations started at Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 on 27th March 2008, marking an exciting new episode for Heathrow Airport. Completed on time and to budget this £4.3bm project will mean that the airport building sets new standards in airport terminal design and customer satisfaction.
Importantly, Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport will provide extra capacity to manage an estimated 35 million additional passengers per year.
The following sections provide useful, and fascinating, information on this exciting new project, which provides the much needed and essential passenger and aircraft capacity.
You can also use the links in the left hand navigation guide where you will find helpful details regarding your departure from Heathrow Airport Terminal 5. |
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State of the Art Design... |
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Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport has been designed by 2006 Stirling Prize winner, the Richard Rogers Partnership. The state of the art building is the largest, free standing building in the UK, standing at 40 metres high, 396 metres long and 176 metres wide, and is fives times the size of Terminal 4.
Made up of 5 levels, each the size of 10 football pitches, are designed around each particular step of the passenger’s journey. The project is a dramatic compilation of steel and glass structures that surpass the needs of air travel in the 21st century. Natural light floods the building through 30,000sq metres of glass which provides an initiative and overwhelming feeling of space, allowing passengers to instinctively move west to east across the building, and heightens the building’s energy efficiency.
Find out more about how Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport is environmentally conscious in this site’s Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 Environmental Considerations guide.
The new airport building houses a specially commissioned piece of artwork by Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell, both of whom have been previously nominated for the Turner Prize, and provides panoramic views across the airfields.
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Heathrow Terminal 5 Building Guide... |
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Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 is the main building and is also referred to as Terminal 5A. The new terminal also has a satellite building, Terminal 5B that provides additional capacity and pier-served aircraft stands. There is also a Terminal 5C, a second satellite building that will open in 2010.
All three of the buildings are linked by an underground transport system – Tracked Transit System (TTS). These driverless trains shuttle passengers to their boarding gates.
More information can be found on the passenger transport systems, including public transport, in this guide’s Transport Systems guide. |
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Construction started for Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport in the summer of 2002 and was officially opened by the Queen on 14th March 2008, operationally opening on 27th March.
The site consists of 80,000 tonnes of structural steel and 1,2Mm3 of structural concrete and is constructed on a site 260ha, equal to London’s Hyde Park. In its roof the steel used weighs 17,000 tonnes (equivalent to 2,833 bull elephants) and the steel used in the buildings internal structures weighs in at 25,000 tonnes (equivalent to 148 Boeing 747s).
At a cost of £4.2bn Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 is expected to handle an additional 30 – 35 million passengers each year.
The Airside road tunnel is the UK’s 7th longest road tunnel, measuring 1.3km.
The terminal is occupied solely by British Airways.
The new building boasts 96 self-service check-in desks, over 90 fast bag drops and 54 standard check-in desks. Find useful information regarding your time spent in Terminal 5, including check-in details, in this guide’s Passenger Journey information guide.
The 11 baggage reclaim belts measure a distance of 17km and process 12,000 bags every hour with capacity for 3,800 pieces of luggage in the early bag store.
What’s more, the site is home to 112 retail outlets which is made up of 87 shops and 25 restaurants and bars. To find out more about the shopping in Terminal 5 visit this site’s Terminal 5 Shopping & Retail Guide.
The new mulit-storey car park accommodates 3,800 spaces. |
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