EGLL Tower on the Move
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: London
Posts: 199
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
We in the training section at TC could probably post a photo, the tower is now looming up above the estate opposite!!!
How WILL you get out in an emergency boys? And far more importantly, how do you clean the windows???
And just for fun, why can we only see 3 red lights from our office? (3 reds on the tower, there are plenty of red lights in wiondows in the estate opposite!!!)
How WILL you get out in an emergency boys? And far more importantly, how do you clean the windows???
And just for fun, why can we only see 3 red lights from our office? (3 reds on the tower, there are plenty of red lights in wiondows in the estate opposite!!!)
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Berkshire, UK
Age: 79
Posts: 8,268
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Cheshire, UK
Age: 56
Posts: 500
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Assuming the training department is within the goulag LACC compound .....
Ah yes, the useful shortcut betwixt Stockley Park and the Sipson road. Great timesaver but wouldn't want to be in the area after dusk if you know what I mean !
Thanks for that HD - I am certain a few comments will be forthcoming regarding the support cables !
Is that sourced from the architects or similar ?
Ah yes, the useful shortcut betwixt Stockley Park and the Sipson road. Great timesaver but wouldn't want to be in the area after dusk if you know what I mean !
Thanks for that HD - I am certain a few comments will be forthcoming regarding the support cables !
Is that sourced from the architects or similar ?
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: On a radial
Posts: 361
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
here ya go chaps....
the central column if formed steel i think... this was taken with about 2 more sections to be slotted in... which i saw being driven down the m25 last week.
Thanks to LTCC for arranging our visit.. nice to get a real first hand view!
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: London
Age: 44
Posts: 258
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
The tower itself will have lift/stairs inside the main column with a glass lift on the outside (nice!) At the base will be a small 2/3 story office building for ops/training etc.. No rest rooms for night shifts (tut tut) or food facilities, plus a 25min walk from T3 to get there.
No details wrt escaping in fire. I'm sure they have solved such a problem and will let us know the procedures before we get up there (yeah right!)
The penultimate section was put in place on night of 21/02, the last section was transported across to the base on night of 22/02. Should be in place by the weekend.
Building should be complete by the end of the year. Will be operational by Oct next year (place your bets now!)
Cheers!
No details wrt escaping in fire. I'm sure they have solved such a problem and will let us know the procedures before we get up there (yeah right!)
The penultimate section was put in place on night of 21/02, the last section was transported across to the base on night of 22/02. Should be in place by the weekend.
Building should be complete by the end of the year. Will be operational by Oct next year (place your bets now!)
Cheers!
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Costa del Hampshire
Posts: 132
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
No details wrt escaping in fire. I'm sure they have solved such a problem and will let us know the procedures before we get up there
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: LHR/EGLL
Age: 45
Posts: 4,392
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Even in the old tower, if the stairwells were impassable, the story was that we'd have to wait for a helicopter to come and get us. I reckon the nearest SAR helo would be the Coastguard at Lee-on-Solent. And the fire doors were meant to last for 30 minutes. 
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Berkshire, UK
Age: 79
Posts: 8,268
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
<<Even in the old tower, if the stairwells were impassable, the story was that we'd have to wait for a helicopter to come and get us.>>
But at least in the old Tower you can go out on the balcony (and make faces at the CCTV camera!)
But at least in the old Tower you can go out on the balcony (and make faces at the CCTV camera!)
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Down at the sharp pointy end, where all the weather is made.
Age: 74
Posts: 1,684
Likes: 0
Received 3 Likes
on
3 Posts
There was actually someone rescued by RAF helicopter from the 'new' tower at LGW, a window cleaner I believe.
TheOddOne
TheOddOne
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: In my garden shed
Posts: 230
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Apparently, in the event of a fire, we get to zip down the support cables krypton factor style. No one could confirm if there is going to be a muddy pool at the end for us to splash into, or if the rest of the assualt course will be built around the tower. I just hope our pilot buddies fly better than some of the contestants on the flight-sim round on the krypton factor.
for those youngsters who don't know what the heckity heck the krypton factor is.....you missed out on some top notch telly!!
for those youngsters who don't know what the heckity heck the krypton factor is.....you missed out on some top notch telly!!
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,815
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
if your getting the wire escape pods we used to get in the oil indusry don't try them before you have to use them.
I made this mistake. They consit of a braked escaped pod which you jump into and away you go down the bit of string.
They way they used to work is that you jumped into them when the Blow out valve went, when they blew the BOP and you stuck your gas mask on and jumped off the derk in one of these things. YOu then headed towords the ground at something towards terminal velocity which is then stopped at 4.5g at the bottom. You only do it once and then you changed your carreer.
IF they offer you training get them to show you the door and which handle to pull and thats it you will only do it once. Its way worse than a min approach in ****e wx trust me.
MJ
I made this mistake. They consit of a braked escaped pod which you jump into and away you go down the bit of string.
They way they used to work is that you jumped into them when the Blow out valve went, when they blew the BOP and you stuck your gas mask on and jumped off the derk in one of these things. YOu then headed towords the ground at something towards terminal velocity which is then stopped at 4.5g at the bottom. You only do it once and then you changed your carreer.
IF they offer you training get them to show you the door and which handle to pull and thats it you will only do it once. Its way worse than a min approach in ****e wx trust me.
MJ
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: UK
Posts: 865
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Sorry haven't got a photo, but you no longer need to visit LHR to see the new tower; it is very clearly visible from the M25 !
Anyone know how tall it will be eventually ? Someone told me the other day 270 ft ? Surely not ?
Anyone know how tall it will be eventually ? Someone told me the other day 270 ft ? Surely not ?
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: london
Posts: 42
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: London
Age: 44
Posts: 258
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Tower now at full height, in fact, 2metres over height as they still have the platform underneath. This will be removed in due course.
The height sounds about right, 87m!
The height sounds about right, 87m!
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: 6nm N of LHR
Posts: 33
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
That tower
The new tower needs to be 87metres tall for the occupants to see fins over the roof of T5 and the double height piers for the A380.
In the summer, the base building will appear.
The cables will take 160t force (1/10th load) to help reduce vibration in the wind - also there are spoilers on the mast and also active mass dampers made in Japan.
The design (by Arup) even allowed BAA to keep stands and taxiways open (work out the reason yourself...).
Whilst being assembled, the temporary stay cables had to extend and contract as the tower went up and down.
Details shamefully nicked from the 24th Feb 2005 edition of the mag called New Civil Engineer
In the summer, the base building will appear.
The cables will take 160t force (1/10th load) to help reduce vibration in the wind - also there are spoilers on the mast and also active mass dampers made in Japan.
The design (by Arup) even allowed BAA to keep stands and taxiways open (work out the reason yourself...).
Whilst being assembled, the temporary stay cables had to extend and contract as the tower went up and down.
Details shamefully nicked from the 24th Feb 2005 edition of the mag called New Civil Engineer