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£1.5bn East terminal on cards for T5 team
09:56 16 Nov 2005
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The project team behind BAA’s £4.2bn Terminal 5 contract has been all but assured of a slice of the action of the airport operator’s proposed £1.5bn Heathrow East terminal building at Heathrow Airport, as a reward for progress on the scheme.
Laing O’Rourke, Balfour Beatty and Amec are just some of the names which are believed to have already guaranteed themselves more work after successfully delivering the civils and building element of T5 on budget and ahead of schedule. The project is now 67% complete.
Plans for the new Heathrow East building, which will replace Terminal 2 and the Queens Building at the site, have yet to be given final approval before it is added to the airport operator’s capital programme.
A planning application is due to be submitted by 2007, with a decision expected in 2008. Construction is due to start in 2009 and should be completed in time for the Olympic Games in 2012.
Although BAA said it was “too soon” to talk about tendering, Tony Douglas, BAA managing director of T5, gave some clues as to who would be working on the contract after he told CJ that he was “very keen” to use the same team that was successfully delivering the project at T5.
“Why split up a team which is doing so well on T5?” said Douglas. “The project is ahead of schedule with £2.85bn spent so far. Why would we change the team when everything is going so well? As Sir John Egan said, it’s about building up the right team and working with it.”
Douglas added that he had been very pleased with his building and civils team of O’Rourke, Balfour and Amec, which were now winding down these works on site and had successfully delivered their part of the project.
Asked if this meant they would be in the frame for the next project, he replied: “You will have to draw your own conclusions. I want to work with the best. If they are not producing the goods then I won’t want to know.
“I have been very impressed with the delivery of the building and civils side.”
Douglas denied that the project would put a drain on the industry’s resources with construction of the new building coming at the same time as the delivery of infrastructure for the Olympics.
“We’ll be working with the industry to work around this,” he said. “There is a risk that the South East could become a heated area for skills, however, we will be ensuring that this won’t be a problem.”
Laing O’Rourke, Balfour Beatty and Amec are just some of the names which are believed to have already guaranteed themselves more work after successfully delivering the civils and building element of T5 on budget and ahead of schedule. The project is now 67% complete.
Plans for the new Heathrow East building, which will replace Terminal 2 and the Queens Building at the site, have yet to be given final approval before it is added to the airport operator’s capital programme.
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A planning application is due to be submitted by 2007, with a decision expected in 2008. Construction is due to start in 2009 and should be completed in time for the Olympic Games in 2012.
Although BAA said it was “too soon” to talk about tendering, Tony Douglas, BAA managing director of T5, gave some clues as to who would be working on the contract after he told CJ that he was “very keen” to use the same team that was successfully delivering the project at T5.
“Why split up a team which is doing so well on T5?” said Douglas. “The project is ahead of schedule with £2.85bn spent so far. Why would we change the team when everything is going so well? As Sir John Egan said, it’s about building up the right team and working with it.”
Douglas added that he had been very pleased with his building and civils team of O’Rourke, Balfour and Amec, which were now winding down these works on site and had successfully delivered their part of the project.
Asked if this meant they would be in the frame for the next project, he replied: “You will have to draw your own conclusions. I want to work with the best. If they are not producing the goods then I won’t want to know.
“I have been very impressed with the delivery of the building and civils side.”
Douglas denied that the project would put a drain on the industry’s resources with construction of the new building coming at the same time as the delivery of infrastructure for the Olympics.
“We’ll be working with the industry to work around this,” he said. “There is a risk that the South East could become a heated area for skills, however, we will be ensuring that this won’t be a problem.”
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