Heathrow Terminal 5 Bid

Mitsui Babcock Energy Limited have asked us to head the team to put together their bid for the manufacture, storage and delivery of prefabricated modules for the £24m London Heathrow Airport (LHA) Terminal Five (T5) project to the AMEC Delivery Team.

We have a tight 3 month deadline for the bid. If MitsuiBabcock is successful (and the competition is fierce) the dcdevine consultancy would head the project management team for this extremely high profile and prestigious project. Terminal Five was designed in the early 1990s, but delayed by the longest public enquiry in history. Permission wasn’t granted until 2001. Preconstruction work is currently underway; a sewage works has to be relocated and the M25 revised amidst a very important archaeological site. Terminal Five alone is the size of many International airports, it is scheduled to be open in 2011.

The T5 Project is rather radical departure for Mitsui Babcock — who are an heavy engineering company operating in the thermal power, nuclear, petrochemical, oil & gas and pharmaceutical industries. Based in Renfrew, Scotland — for a century — the company employs 1000 people there and a further 3000 people in 150 countries. MBEL were invited to tender because of the Renfrew site’s storage capacity, and good transport links.

Mitsui Babcock Energy Ltd

Westway
Porterfield Rd
Renfrew
PA4 8DJ
Tel: 0141 886 4141
Fax: 0141 885 3338

2003-09 Edit: Under our contract (ref 51), we were also specifically responsible for DFMA (manufacture and assembly design), Value Engineering input and advice, programme and planning input, and writing the entire Methodology Section of the submitted bid. The bid basis changed a number of times, as well as the deadlines: for example, the initial seven module types from Concourse A were increased to 13 types.

2003-10 Edit: When the bid was deemed unsuccessful, MBEL returned to core business and began a £5 million enterprise developing clean coal technology.

Architects: Richard Rogers Partnership; Co-Architects: Pascal + Watson (production) / Chapman Taylor (retail) / HOK (rail systems) / YRM (BAA liaison); Civil Engineer: Mott McDonald; Construction Management: BAA; Principal Contractors: Laing O’Rourke / Mace / Balfour Beatty / AMEC; Quantity Surveyor: Turner & Townsend / E.C. Harris; Services Engineer: DSSR / Arup; Structural Engineer: Arup.

• Mitsuibabcock.com
• The Civil Aviation Authority
• Heathrow Airport.com
• European Commission on Air Transport
• Richard Rogers Architects

Terminal Five Links:

• Richard Rogers: T5
• UK’s Biggest Archaeological site: T5
• Airwise Terminal 5 Inquiry
• Airport Guide (with computer generated images)
• T5 Facts and Figures
• West London Friends of The Earth: Terminal 5

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