First pictures of Heathrow’s £1bn hub

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Peter Dominiczak12 April 2012

These are the first images of the planned new £1 billion Terminal 2 at Heathrow.

The computer generated pictures show the glass-fronted building that will increase the terminal's capacity by 11.5 million to around 20 million passengers each year.

Airport owner BAA claims the terminal will be environmentally friendly and use "renewable" materials. The structure — which will house Star Alliance network airlines, including BMI and Lufthansa — will produce 40 per cent less carbon than the old buildings it is replacing.

The roof has large windows intended to reduce the need for artificial lighting without generating too much heat.

There will also be solar panels on the roof, while heating and cooling for the terminal will be produced by an energy centre partly fuelled by renewable resources.

The first phase is due to be finished in 2013, and the second part, due by 2019, will extend the new terminal into the existing Terminal 1 site and increase total capacity to around 30 million passengers a year. Initial designs for the new terminal were devised by Foster + Partners and were developed further by HETCo.

BAA insisted that plans to call the whole scheme Heathrow East had been dropped, though it could not say what the building would eventually be called.

Mike Brown, Heathrow's chief operating officer, said the plans underlined the airport's position at the heart of international travel and the global economy.

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