Capacity
Phase one opens in 2008 and includes the main terminal and
the first of two satellite buildings.
The second satellite is due
for completion
in 2011.
Passengers accommodated (total):30 million per year
Passengers accommodated (phase 1): 27 million per year
Passengers accommodated (phase 2): 3 million per year
Dimensions
Area of T5 site : 260 ha (around the same size as Hyde Park)
The main
terminal : 396m long by 176 m wide by 40m high (the interior
space could accommodate around 50 football pitches)
The satellite building : 442m long by 52 m wide by 19.5m high
(bigger than Terminal 4)
No of aircraft stands with phase 1 : 47
No of additional aircraft stands with phase 2 : 60
Bored Tunnels
The T5 project includes a total of 13.5 km of bored tunnel – equivalent
to around one third of the underwater section of the channel
tunnel
- Heathrow Express extension: 3.2 km total length
(2 x 1.6km each bore), 5.7m diameter twin bore tunnel
- Piccadilly
Line extension: 3.4 km total length (2 x 1.2 km each bore) 4.5m
diameter twin bore tunnel
- Airside Road tunnel: 2.6 km total length
(2 x 1.3 km each bore) 8.1m diameter twin bore tunnel
- Storm Water
Outfall tunnel: 4.1 km, 2.91m diameter single bore
- A3044 service
tunnel crossing: 280 m, (2 x 140 m) 2.5 m diameter twin bore
- Twin
river diversion: 6 km of new river channels
Multi
storey car park: 4000 spaces Construction
Statistics
- Length of site roads: 6 km
- No of tower cranes: 30
- Total volume of earthworks: 6.5 Mm3 of
earth moved – enough
to fill the new Wembley Stadium one and a half times
- Pavement
quality concrete: 335,000 m3 poured - (4,700 m3 per week at
peak)
- Structural concrete: 1.2 m3 (14,000 m3 per week at peak)
- Steel
reinforcement: 150,000t
- Structural steel: 80,000t (Wembley Stadium
has 23,000t; Birmingham Bullring shopping Centre has 13,800t)
- Number
of site facilities: 6 site compounds
- Area of archaeology works:
70 ha excavated and surveyed
- Landscaping: 450 native semi-mature
trees, 2000 native semi-mature shrubs and over 100,000 evergreen
ground cover shrubs.
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