Terminal 5C
Project T5C will create an additional 12 stand capacity for British Airports Authority (BAA) at London Heathrow airport.
This is part of an on-going redevelopment of the airport and is the first project carried out by Carillion within this framework.
Upon completion, the new T5C building will increase arrival and departure capacity and improve the overall experience of travelling form Heathrow.
T5C will be a high quality, cost effective satellite, respecting the T5 buildings vocabulary of wave form roof and substantially glazed facades at Departures Level. The building has 4 levels above ground, and incorporates the station for Tracked Transit System in a basement structure below.
The T5 Phase 2 airfield will deliver 12 pier served stands. Of these 6 will be JX stands and 4 JW stands.
All stands will be equipped with fuel hydrants, fixed electric ground power, floodlights, and stand entry guidance systems. Contact stands will be equipped with pre-conditioned air.
BAA are contracting directly with those suppliers that are responsible for completing the airfield scope of works.
Baggage Infrastructure
The baggage system is an extension of the system serving T5A and T5B. There is no head of stand baggage delivery. Two Bagtrax (DCV) systems will be extended from T5B to T5C, rise to the surface within T5C and unload time-critical departing bags at one of a number of laterals around the perimeter of the building. Transfer bags are input to the system at docks.
These are arranged around the building perimeter. Arriving bags are taken by tug and dolly to T5A and unloaded onto the reclaim carousels. The extension of the system to T5C is necessary to achieve the overall baggage system performance requirements for T5 as a whole.
BAA are contracting directly with the supplier Vanderlande International to carry out the scheme, production, design and installation on T5C.
Tracked Transit
The Track Transit System (TTS) is a transportation system dedicated to the movement of passengers and other operational personnel in an airside environment between T5A and T5B (phase 1) and to T5C.
The boundary of the system is defined as the point at which the passenger is committed to using the system, i.e. from top of escalator in T5A to top of escalator in T5B (and T5C). Transportation is provided by an Automated People Mover [APM], driverless trains, running on dedicated subsurface guide way. The station within T5C will be fitted out as a part of the T5C project.
