Airline & Airport Terminal Planning

British Airways plc

£360m (of £4.2 billion)

To determine British Airways operational and facility requirements for their occupation of London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 and to prepare an business case and brief. To manage their integration with the airports (BAA) brief and design.

Development Management
Under the leadership of Vectors Development Manager our team  provided a full compliment of services throughout the feasibility and pre-construction design stages of this 30mppa/£5.0bn terminal. Establishment and approval of BA’s needs required: extensive stakeholder organisation & communication; formulation of product, facility and operational briefs; design team management including baggage handling systems specialists; programme planning and management; production of business papers; FM strategies including energy performance targets. Our active promotion of BA/BAA joint working, together with a convergence process, facilitated the incorporation of BA’s requirements

With T5 being critical to BA’s medium and long term business success they were assured the planning and design of T5 incorporated their key operational and facility requirements.