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The Terminal, as well as the neighboring Queen’s Building, is now being demolished but not before the ServiceTec team de-installed all of the remaining IT equipment – 170 sets (approximately 800 items), and cleaned, wrapped and delivered it all to an off-site storage location.  The last items were removed from the Terminal on 27th November.

T2B – the first phase of London Heathrow Airports redevelopment – became fully operational on January 12, thanks to the hard work undertaken by ServiceTec’s highly skilled and motivated team who successfully completed the desk and iMUSE installs on time. Paying tribute to the ServiceTec Team’s performance, Phil Rackstraw – Heathrow Strategic Relationship Manager, ARINC – said: "During early November, the LHR ServiceTec team were faced with not only maintaining the daily operation, but delivering 2 major projects: installing the iMUSE kit for the new T2B gates and decommissioning the whole of Terminal 2.

They rose to the challenge, meeting the customers target dates – a great team effort."  Despite its numbering, Terminal 2 was the first of Heathrow’s terminals to open. Originally called Europa Building, Terminal 2 changed its name after the opening of Terminal 1 in 1969. When it opened, the terminal was designed to handle 1.2 million passengers annually but has regularly handled 8 million passengers in recent years. The new Terminal 2 will cover 180,000 square meters – more than three times the size of the old one – and will initially be able to handle 20 million passengers a year. BAA says the building will have a carbon footprint that is 40% smaller than the buildings it is replacing, in part through the use of solar panels on its roof as well as better use of natural daylight.

The design also allows for the addition of a satellite terminal, increasing its capacity to 30 million passengers a year. Terminal 1 will close after this second phase is completed, currently scheduled for 2019.

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