Facts and Figures
Terminal 5 will be able to handle 30million passengers per year, taking Heathrow's total number of passengers to around 90 million. This will make Heathrow the world's busiest airport.
The new terminal building will be big enough to fit around fifty football pitches across its five floors.
The terminal's control tower will be the highest in the UK.
Around 18km of conveyor belt will be used to transport luggage around the terminal when it opens.
It is the UK's largest ever single site archaeological project, with over 100 hectares of land requiring investigation.
So far there has been over 80,000 artefacts found throughout the project, including pottery, worked flint, a hand axe dating back to 3000BC, a wooden bowl and a wooden bucket dating back to 1500BC - 1100BC.
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