Business profile
The £564 million Bank station upgrade project was awarded to Dragados and its team of UK designers and contractors this summer, under novel conditions designed to boost the scheme’s social value
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solution that substantially increased London Underground’s target of a 15 per cent increase in value for money and the lowest bid price meant Dragados beat competition from a Costain/Vinci joint venture, but Danny Duggan, Dragados’s rail director and BankSCU project director said the bid was a unique experience for him thanks to London Underground’s Innovative Contractor Engagement (ICE) process and an emphasis on the ‘social benefits’ of moving more people through the station faster. Duggan explained that the ICE process
facilitated the whole Dragados team forming more than a year ago, at the dialogue stage, to collectively develop the most effective product for the client. A real attribute of this process is
that it facilitates the ability to leverage intellectual property from throughout the supply chain. In the Dragados scheme, the need for absolute confidentiality to protect innovation led to exclusive and
early agreements with key tier 2 suppliers, a move that significantly benefited the evolving designs such that Duggan attributes 50 per cent of the new solution to contributions from his supply chain. Dragados’s senior management team
has almost entirely been recruited from within the UK, with some of the best engineering minds from the Spanish arm of the business also engaged. The design and build supply chain includes:
• URS as lead designer • Dr Sauer and Partners as sprayed concrete tunnel designers
• Wilkinson Eyre Architects • Geocisa as settlement mitigation specialists
• Cleshar as track and possession management specialists
• Keltbray as demolition experts • TClarke as mechanical, electrical and station power suppliers
The team has developed a much improved solution for Bank and is now
located with the London Underground team to start production of detailed designs for the capacity upgrade at Bank, LU’s fourth busiest interchange.
Vital work at Bank The station is set for a new entrance, platform and tunnel to serve southbound Northern line trains as well as step-free access leading to street level and the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). The £564 million project will amalgamate Monument and Bank stations, which will together consist of three ticket halls, six lifts, 10 platforms, 15 escalators and two 300-foot airport-style moving walkways. The station already forms one of the largest and most complicated subterranean railway complexes in the world and is used by almost 100,000 passengers daily. The design phase has commenced and
work is due to start on site in 2016 with a completion date of 2021 – a time frame agreed with the Department for Transport. The work will take place within and underneath a conservation area, which includes nationally significant and well- known buildings, the headquarters of major corporations and internationally significant churches.
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