Major new Crossrail initiative to share lessons learned

Crossrail has today launched a new initiative to share insight from Europe’s largest construction project with the wider UK infrastructure industry.

This comes in the week it was announced the line will operate as the Elizabeth line when the new service opens for passengers through central London in December 2018.

With over £400bn of infrastructure projects identified in the Government’s National Infrastructure Plan, Crossrail’s Learning Legacy initiative seeks to collate knowledge and share good practice on a wide range of topics, including Health & Safety, Project Management, Engineering and the Environment.

The first tranche of material shares some of the early lessons that have been learned from the Crossrail programme. It includes technical papers, peer-reviewed case studies and procedures, which have been published on a dedicated website: http://learninglegacy.crossrail.co.uk/.

Further material will be published every six months during the rest of the project.

The resource was launched today at an industry event in London, which was attended by Andrew Wolstenholme, Crossrail Chief Executive; Tony Meggs, Chief Executive, Infrastructure and Projects Authority; and Alison Munro, Managing Director - Development at HS2.

Andrew Wolstenholme, Crossrail Chief Executive, said: “Passing on the lessons and good practice that we have learned at Crossrail is an absolutely essential part of raising the bar in the delivery of major projects. With an unprecedented number of infrastructure schemes around the corner, now is the time to start sharing what we have learned so the UK can build on its reputation for delivering safely, on time and on budget.”

Ref: Crossrail
07/03/16