Heathrow Terminal 5 | |
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Alternative names | Terminal 5, British Airways Terminal 5, T5 |
General information | |
Status | Completed |
Type | Airport terminal |
Location | Junction 14 of the M25 off the A3044 |
Address | Harmondsworth, Hounslow, TW6 2GA |
Coordinates | 51°28′22″N 0°29′15″W / 51.47278°N 0.48756°W |
Elevation | 22 m (72 ft) |
Construction started | September 2002 |
Completed | 2008 |
Opened | 27 March 2008 |
Inaugurated | 14 March 2008 |
Cost | £4.2 billion |
Client | Heathrow Airport Holdings |
Landlord | Heathrow Airport Holdings |
Technical details | |
Structural system | Steel frame roof with glass facades |
Floor area | 353,020 square metres (3,799,900 sq ft) (main terminal building), 18,500 square metres (199,000 sq ft) (retail area) |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Richard Rogers |
Architecture firm | Richard Rogers Partnership |
Services engineer | Hathaway Roofing Ltd (roof) |
Civil engineer | Arup (above ground), Mott MacDonald (substructures) |
Other designers | Pascall+Watson |
Main contractor | Mace, AMEC, Laing O'Rourke, Morgan Vinci JV (tunnelling) |
Other information | |
Public transit access | Heathrow Terminal 5 station |
Website | |
Heathrow Airport |
Heathrow Terminal 5 is an airport terminal at Heathrow Airport, the main airport serving London. Opened in 2008, the main building in the complex is the largest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom. Until 2012, the terminal was used solely by British Airways. It now is used as one of the three global hubs of IAG, served by British Airways and Iberia.
The terminal was designed to handle 72.29 million passengers a year. In 2018, Terminal 5 handled 32.1 million passengers on 211,000 flights. It was the busiest terminal at the airport, measured both by passenger numbers and flight movements.[1]
The building's leading architects were from the Richard Rogers Partnership and production design was completed by aviation architects Pascall+Watson. The engineers for the structure were Arup and Mott MacDonald. The building cost £4 billion and took almost 20 years from conception to completion, including the longest public inquiry in British history.