Up, up and away
Tony Douglas is redefining how to run massive construction projects
TO THE west of London, crammed between Europe's busiest stretch of motorway and its busiest international airport, is a vast building site. In the midst of a landscape of mud and men rises a vast glass-fronted box that will soon be Britain's largest free-standing building. This is Heathrow airport's fifth terminal, authorised in 2001 after a long and bitter battle with environmentalists, and destined to cater for 30m passengers a year when it opens in March 2008. It will include not just a terminal that will be the equivalent of Europe's fourth-largest airport in its own right, but also new road, rail and underground links.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Up, up and away”
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