PROCUREMENT & SUPPLY CHAIN
Supply chain opportunities on Crossrail
Crossrail chief executive Andrew Wolstenholme explains the vast number of opportunities available for railway businesses coming up over the next few years.
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rossrail is soon to hit its peak employment phase, and is also moving from the heavy civils and tunnelling phase towards the rail systems and station fit-out stage, opening up new opportunities for the rail supply chain.
Around 9,000 people are already working on the project, and by next year this will rise to nearly 15,000.
The project’s chief executive since 2011, Andrew Wolstenholme, spoke at Railtex 2013 to outline progress made so far, but also the vast amount of upcoming work.
He told the packed audience in his keynote speech: “The huge numbers of exhibitors and visitors here highlight where we are at in the industry – I’m very excited by what I’m seeing and the pipeline of work coming up.”
He added: “There’s opportunities for many people in this room right now.”
Wolstenholme pledged that there would be full transparency and visibility of the workbank to make it clear where and when opportunities will arise for the supply chain over the next 12- 24 months.
Progress made and contracts awarded
He gave an overview of the Crossrail route and its impressive economic case, and how it will help increase capacity and tackle congestion at the busiest nodes of London’s transport network. He also explained where the funding is coming from – £7.15bn from TfL and the GLA, £5.2bn from the DfT, BAAplc and the City of London, and £2.45bn from Network Rail and others making up its total £14.8bn cost.
Funding is also being unlocked by the vast land and property opportunities and regeneration, including a huge amount of over-site development.
Wolstenholme described the huge amount of tunnelling already done – just over 10km on the morning he spoke, about 25% of the total – and said: “We’re beginning to focus on the future – the railway systems and the station fittings.”
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The major station contracts are now let, as are many of the others:
Signalling – Siemens/Invensys JV Traction Power – Alstom/Costain JV Communications and Control – Siemens Railway Systems – Alstom/Costain/TSO JV High Voltage Power – Alstom/Costain JV
‘Unzipping’ London
The scope of some of the projects, such as Paddington, Liverpool Street, and especially Tottenham Court Road, is staggering (see image below).
“We’re ‘unzipping’ parts of London,” Wolstenholme said. “These are very constrained worksites, with local communities, commercial and retail going on all around, requiring a high degree of stakeholder management.”
On Tottenham Court Road specifically, he said: “It is substantially larger in both scale and size than anything we can see in London today.”
completed.
He spoke of the need to integrate work between a range of different constructors and joint ventures to hand over to infrastructure managers, the difficult interfaces with the national rail network west and east of the capital, and the huge number of station upgrades and major structural projects to be
But he said he was thrilled that Howard Smith, former chief operating officer at London Rail for TfL, has come on board at Crossrail.
Smith, who sits on RTM’s editorial board, is Crossrail’s operations director.
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