Heavyweight consultants among seven picked for the plans

Grimshaw's aerial view of Heathrow

Seven big-name consultants have been chosen by Heathrow to design its plans for expansion.

Amec Foster Wheeler, Arup, Atkins, Mott MacDonald, Jacobs and planning consultant Quod have been selected to design plans for the airport鈥檚 鈥渟ustainable鈥� expansion.

Architect Grimshaw was appointed over the summer and beat a number of others to the role including Zaha Hadid Architects and HOK.

The group, whose four-year contracts started last month, will now be known as the Integrated Design Team (IDT).

Grimshaw along with Amec Foster Wheeler, Arup and Jacobs were partly chosen due to their past work on the airport.

Heathrow said Grimshaw 鈥渆arned鈥� its role as concept architect within the IDT after its 鈥渟uccessful鈥� delivery of Terminal 2B.

Barry Weekes, head of design at Heathrow, said: 鈥淲ith their institutional knowledge of Heathrow, and proven record in building complex infrastructure projects, the members of the Integrated Design Team will allow us to hit the ground running to deliver Heathrow expansion.

鈥淭heir appointment is a significant milestone in what will be a fast paced design and engineering schedule.鈥�

The appointment of the IDT follows Heathrow鈥檚 announcement of its client advisors in March of this year.

Arup, CH2M, Mace and Turner & Townsend will work alongside Heathrow to give it advice on planning, innovation and quality.

 

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