Heathrow Terminal 5

One of the Group’s greatest competitive strengths – and a key to many of our long-term contractual relationships – is our proven ability to help our customers tackle the most complex challenges successfully. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering the most complex projects on time and on budget. This ability has been further enhanced by the continuing development of our professional and technical services arm and an ever-increasing facility in combining our multi-disciplinary skills in the right combination and balance to achieve customer objectives.

Balfour Beatty has played a key role in creating Heathrow Terminal 5, the flagship development for BAA. The Group has been responsible for the integration and execution of all the rail systems for the Heathrow Express and the Piccadilly Line extensions, delivery of the rail terminal complex within Terminal 5A, the track transit system connecting the terminal satellites, and a range of ancillary work including gates, bridges and toilet units.

The rail station, equivalent in size to six football pitches, houses six platforms. Balfour Beatty managed and fitted out the station, including the design of all finishes, mechanical and electrical systems, glazing, steelwork, lifts, escalators and communications and control systems. The project was especially challenging as it incorporated two separate rail systems – one heavy rail and the other a light metropolitan system.