Protective glazing for Heathrow terminal 5

Published: 01 June, 2007

In one of Europe’s most prestigious airport glazing contracts, leading vertical access equipment manufacturer, Hek Manufacturing BV and a glass specialist, Lindner-Schmidlin Facade Ltd, have provided specialist fire - and in some sensitive areas ‘blast-resistant’ - glazing for London Heathrow Airport’s major Terminal 5 structure.
When finished in March 2008, the £4.2bn Terminal 5 project will accommodate 35 million passengers every year - half of the 70 million people the other terminals serve.
Lindner-Schmidlin Facade Ltd’s project teams worked out the best installation plan for the 33,000 m2 of glass and have projected that the job will be 100% finished by August 2007.
Each 400m facade was divided into 36m sections, to coincide with the spacing of the movement joints. The glazing was installed in two 18m runs, from left to right.
A spokesman told IFJ: “The facade for the North and South ends was installed using a suspended system. Lindner-Schmidlin’s facade gaskets on the terminal ends, at 180m each, represent the longest continuous silicone EPDM gasket for fire-resistant glass ever installed in the world.”

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