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First pictures of Heathrow’s £1bn hub
Peter Dominiczak10 Aug 2009
These are the first images of the planned new £1 billion Terminal 2 at Heathrow.
The computer generated pictures show the glass-fronted building that will increase the terminal's capacity by 11.5 million to around 20 million passengers each year.
Airport owner BAA claims the terminal will be environmentally friendly and use “renewable” materials. The structure — which will house Star Alliance network airlines, including BMI and Lufthansa — will produce 40 per cent less carbon than the old buildings it is replacing.
The roof has large windows intended to reduce the need for artificial lighting without generating too much heat.
There will also be solar panels on the roof, while heating and cooling for the terminal will be produced by an energy centre partly fuelled by renewable resources.
The first phase is due to be finished in 2013, and the second part, due by 2019, will extend the new terminal into the existing Terminal 1 site and increase total capacity to around 30 million passengers a year. Initial designs for the new terminal were devised by Foster + Partners and were developed further by HETCo.
BAA insisted that plans to call the whole scheme Heathrow East had been dropped, though it could not say what the building would eventually be called.
Mike Brown, Heathrow's chief operating officer, said the plans underlined the airport's position at the heart of international travel and the global economy.
Reader views (18)
Trunk- don't worry, of all the countries in the world the US is the last on my list so I won't be passing comment on your airports.
- Nj, London, 11/08/2009 10:44
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The main thing that make us the laughing stock of the world is the rundown antiquated airport we have compared to some 3rd world countries!!
Whatever the long term future brings we cannot get by on terminals build in and for the middle of the last century.
As for the 3rd runway a 2nd runway at Gatwick or Stanstead should come first given that these are still single runway airports and it could even reduce the need for a 3rd runway at Heathrow!!!
- Melvyn Windebank, Canvey Island, Essex, 10/08/2009 22:52
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let hope we can all move forward and get it builtand stop moaning about it we need it and it will be graet for the uk The british spend so long talking about when it built it will be to small just like the M25
- Hugh Dole, ottawa Canada, 10/08/2009 22:41
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BAA Claims it will produce 40% more carbon! I suppose with the planned 3rd runway they need to offset the pollution and smog the extra air traffic will cause. Glad I don't fly and add to the poor air quality the South East already has!
- Paul Humphreys, Essex, 10/08/2009 19:13
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Hey NJ, no one would ever apply the word 'hypocrite' to you mate!
The major problem with this terminal will be getting it built on budget.
- Trunk, US, 10/08/2009 18:13
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Gh, Australia, Lara, Australia- before offering your opinion on Heathrow maybe you should visit some airports closer to home… have you been to Sydney airport recently? $5Aus just to travel between terminals on a shuttle bus, long queues, endless building works, not enough facilities for the number of people who use it- it gets completely overwhelmed every time a jumbo lands- an awful place! Mind you Melbourne is not that much better- they even charge you for the luggage trolleys. Caines is terrible too, like a bus station with aeroplanes… Why do Australians moan about Heathrow when they have some of the worse airports in the world? Probably for the same reason they moan about everything I guess.
- Nj, London, 10/08/2009 16:06
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Why are we having this discussion? This thing won't be built.
- Albert Hall, Kettering, 10/08/2009 15:32
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I'm sure it's just jealousy, this will be as efficient as Terminal 5.
- Bob, Cheam, 10/08/2009 15:08
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The proposed design falls squarely into the "Fish and Chips" category of unoriginal British architecture.
People will come from as far away as Brazil to see its amazing ordinariness.
Can't wait to sample those travelators, mod toilets and rows of seats for tedious long waits.
- Gh, Australia, Lara, Australia, 10/08/2009 14:29
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If matt your comments were aimed at me you are going to have to do a lot better than lazy pedantry to suggest that aviation operations do not cause ill health - The World Health Organisation thinks so and even if you believe that progress at any price is favourable (until I fancy your job, health or home is impacted)- work for BAA or aviation do you we know BAA employs people to pretend to be disinterested citizens so I do need to chech - I do not, asthma in children in London is highest in Europe and Heathrow and its Operations play a significant part in thatstatistic - and how many people are dieing younger because of Heathrow - its shrouded in mystery but the clue here its not 1!!
- Christian Ball, London, UK, 10/08/2009 14:13
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So while terminal 2 is being revamped, where are the current 8.5 million passengers per year going to get their flights? Heathrow's other terminals seem unpleasantly busy already, and the 2012 Olympics are coming up, when the world and his wife/girl/boy friend are expected to fly in. Another example of the lack of joined-up thinking in which we excel it seems.
- Martyn L, kingston, 10/08/2009 13:55
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Reuben Camara of the "Republic of Morecambe" says: "The UK is currently the laughing stock of the entire world." Why? First, I can thing of a great swathe of countries that are in a worst state than the UK. Secondly, the "entire world", as you call it, has better things to think about than the state of the UK. I cannot imagine Africans, Chinese, Brazilians etc sat around thinking "oh what a poor state the UK is in". Your comment is stupid!
- Anthony, London, 10/08/2009 13:20
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Terminal 3 is a disgrace and needs to be overhauled as well. Flying back from Hong Kong (whose airport is amazing) earlier this year was like flying back to the third world and not the impression the UK would want to convey.
Even Luton airport is nicer then Terminal 3
- Mark, St Albans, 10/08/2009 13:16
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Oh dear, yet more knee jerk nonsense about "environmental damage" caused apparently only by cars and planes from people with no hard evidence but a considerable personal investment in the politics of envy.
In years gone by these kind of views were correctly labelled as Luddite.
- Matt, London, UK, 10/08/2009 13:00
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8.5 million extra passengers per year?
How can that number be achieved without more flights? Just another 'BAA' shopping mall.
- Mike B, London, 10/08/2009 11:55
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What tosh - the damage done by planes and automobiles is huge a roof that is 'green' will do nothing to address the underlying damage. Incidentally why no coverage of the doubling in ill health as a result of Heathrow operations, or the increase in 'premature deaths' that any expansio will bring, or the huge mental health implications of the noise generated by jest every 90 seconds - why no investigation into the laisezz-faire NATS approach to human beings on the ground impacted by planes 'shortcutting across land when they should follow The Thames for safety reasons?? There is a lot our media does not want to uncover about Heathrow and its operations that should cause every Londoner real concerns. The silence sounds like ad revenue, nobbled free flights and upgrade journalists on the aviation lobby take. Just like tobacco used to be before the evidence was overwhelming.
- Christian Ball, London, UK, 10/08/2009 11:35
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About time, the current T2 creates a sad impression of the UK for visitors. It sorely needs replacing, along with T1 and T3 too.
- Aidan Reid, london, uk, 10/08/2009 09:40
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It should be called an environmental disaster.
Global warming?
The UK is currently the laughing stock of the entire world.
- Reuben Camara, Republic of Morecambe, UK, 10/08/2009 09:20
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