Heathrow Terminal 5 inside out

• Construction started on the £4.3 billion pound project in September 2002 and is running on time and on budget.
• 2006 Stirling Prize winner the Richard Rogers Partnership designed Terminal 5.
• Terminal 5 is the biggest freestanding building in the UK – the building is 40 metres high, 396 metres long and 176 metres wide.
• Terminal 5 will be five times the size of Terminal 4, our current main longhaul base.
• The building will be comprised of five levels, each the size of 10 football pitches – designed around the different stages of the passenger journey.
• 30,000 square metres of reinforced glass and 5,500 glass panels have been used to glaze the terminal building and roof giving the whole terminal a light and airy feel.
• The Terminal 5 site is located between Heathrow’s two runways on land previously occupied by a sludge works.  The project has successfully moved 9 million cubic metres of earth and two rivers have been diverted to create space for the new building.
• More than 250,000 evergreen ground cover shrubs, 2,000 metres of native hedgerow trees, 1,500 semi mature trees and 2,500 semi mature shrubs are being used to landscape the area around Terminal 5 in the next two years.
• Water from Terminal 5’s rainwater harvesting and groundwater boreholes is being used for non-potable uses, reducing the demand on the mains water by 70%. The harvesting scheme re-uses up to 85% of the rainfall that falls on Terminal 5’s campus.
• Waste heat from the existing combined heat and power station at Heathrow is being piped to Terminal 5 through an underground pipeline and will provide Terminal 5 with 85% of its heat on demand.