September 06, 2008

Rautaruukki supplies structures for Heathrow terminal No 5

Rautaruukki has delivered the load bearing structures for London Heathrow’s new Terminal 5, which will open this week on March 27th 2008. The delivery was worth a total of around EUR 15 million.

As per release, Ruukki supplied almost 4 kilometers of roof girders and over 10 kilometers of purlins for the new terminal. The steel structures for Terminal 5 were made at Ruukki’s Kalajoki and Ylivieska plants in Finland.

To put the size, 12,500 tonnes, of Ruukki’s delivery into perspective, the structures for the Eiffel Tower in Paris weigh around 7,300 tonnes.

With around 67 million passengers a year, Heathrow is Europe’s one of the busiest airport. The new terminal will considerably improve Heathrow’s poor standard of service, which is the result of overcrowding. Terminal 5 is almost 400 meters long, 176 meters wide and 40 meters high and will house 25 restaurants and 150 shops.

In addition to load bearing structures, Ruukki has delivered prefabricated roof elements for other terminals at London Heathrow: to the construction site for Terminal 1 this year and for Terminal 3 last year.