Richard Matthews, Director, Arup
ICE Lecture 2009
The air-traffic control tower at Heathrow, London, is responsible for the safe and efficient operation of the busiest two-runway airport in the world.
Richard Matthews, Director, Arup, explores how the building of Terminal 5 brought with it the need for an enlarged control tower to be built at a new location at the airfield centre. The project team faced unique engineering issues in developing a design and construction method that satisfied both the strict functional requirements of an efficient air traffic control tower, whilst addressing the challenges of building an 87m structure in the midst of live aircraft stands and taxiways.
This lecture was presented one year after construction and celebrates the fact the control tower was built without accident and without disruption to the daily operation of the airport - a testament to the highly integrated design and construction philosophy established at T5.
Richard Matthews' lecture is based on his paper, Creating Heathrow's new eye in the sky, published in a special issue of Civil Engineering in May 2008.
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Heathrow's eye in the sky: understanding the engineering success of the control tower
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