Heathrow Airport's emissions reductions efforts - Airports Council ...

Executive summaryHCFCs and HFCs have beenvirtually eliminated from theTerminal 5 project.Terminal 5bHow we are reducingemissions from road trafficand airport vehiclesInvesting in rail. BAA hasinvested £750 million in buildingand operating the HeathrowExpress service which removesaround 3,000 cars a day fromLondon’s roads.Improving bus services. BAAsubsidises local bus routes aroundthe airport so that all passengers,staff, or local residents can travelfor free.Encouraging staff to car share.BAA operates the largest carsharing scheme in Europe. Morethan 6,000 people from over 300airport companies are members,and two-thirds car share threetimes a week.Investing in innovative transportschemes. Our Personal RapidTransit system (PRT), to be trialledin 2008, will replace traditionalbuses and coaches, generate zerolocal emissions, and is more energyefficient than existing vehicles.Cutting the number of deliveryvehicles at Heathrow. BAA hasopened a centre whichconsolidates airport deliveriesoff-site so that multiple deliveriescan be made with just onevehicle. This has successfully cutthe number of retail deliveries atHeathrow from 49,000 to just8,300 a year.How we are curbingemissions on the airfieldPre-conditioned Air and FixedElectrical Ground Power. Aircrafttraditionally run one of theirengines while they are parked onthe ground to power the plane.BAA is installing systems thatprovide air conditioning andelectricity from the terminalbuildings so that aircraft can turnoff their engines.On-airfield airline vehicles.British Airways plans to spendmore than £25m on a new fleetof airport vehicles as part of itsmove to Heathrow Airport’s newTerminal 5 next March. Thenumber of ground vehiclesrequired will fall by just under40% as a result of the move.Redesigning taxiways. BAA isinvesting in redesigning taxiwaysand piers to reduce the amountof congestion on the airfield,cutting the amount of time thataircraft have to run their engineson the ground.Heathrow Clean VehiclesProgramme. BAA is promotingthe use of alternative fuels atHeathrow to reduce CO2 andNOx emissions by offering a fundof £100,000 to help convert orreplace inefficient vehicles.How we are setting newstandards for low-carbonconstructionEliminating powerfulgreenhouse gases inconstruction. HCFCs and HFCshave been virtually eliminatedfrom the Terminal 5 project.Sourcing sustainableconstruction materials. Onlytimber that has been approvedby the Forestry StewardshipCouncil (FSC) has been installedby BAA at Terminal 5.Using recycled materials atTerminal 5. Over 300,000 tonnesof aggregate were processed andreused on site from demolitionmaterials and waste concrete.Crushed green glass fromdomestic household recyclingbanks was used as a base for siteroads. Pulverised fuel ash, awaste product from powerstations, made up 30% of theconcrete mixture that was usedon site.Recycling our construction waste.Waste materials have beensegregated on the Terminal 5 siteand over 85% of the waste fromthe project has been recycled.6 Heathrow and climate changeHeathrow and climate change 7