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Engineering Design of the Platform Edge Screens for Crossrail’s Mined Stations Technical Paper

This paper covers the engineering design of Platform Edge Screens for the five mined Crossrail stations in central London. Full-height platform edge screens are a signature feature of Crossrail’s mined station pla...

Julian Birbeck CEng MIStructE, Rosemary Smiley MEng, George Stowell BA(Hons) Dipl Arch MA(Dist) MRIAI RIBA, Ed Newman-Sanders CEng MICE, ICE Publishing 09/07/2018
Interface Management Procedure Good Practice Document

This procedure addressed interface management undertaken on the design and engineering of the Crossrail Central Section. It applied to all the systems, sub-systems, components and interfaces that made up the Crossrail Ce...

Crossrail Ltd, George Georgiou 09/07/2018
Earthing and Bonding Technical Paper

The purpose of the case paper is to outline the Earthing and Bonding (E&B) principles and delivery on a complex subsurface metro railway project. The paper identifies how E&B is undertaken and delivered through t...

Malcolm Anderson BEng(Hons) CEng MIET, Neville Leary FIET, Jonathan King FIET, ICE Publishing 09/07/2018
Design of Canary Wharf Elizabeth line station and Crossrail Place oversite development Journal Publication

Canary Wharf was the first station on the Elizabeth line to be constructed, and the first to be let as a design-and-build contract, with developer Canary Wharf Group. Innovative design and construction techniques enabled...

Tim Worsfold MEng ACGI CEng MICE, Michael Bryant BSc CEng MICE, John Crack BSc CEng MICE MIStructE MSM MBA, The Structural Engineer 02/07/2018
Effective Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM) and Safety (S), Principles and Guidelines for Large Subsurface Metro and Main Line Projects Technical Paper

This paper offers support and guidance on a major infrastructure subsurface railway project, to select and undertake an effective reliability, availability and maintainability and safety (RAMS) strategy. RAMS which forms...

Jonathan King FIET, Olga Gugala, ICE Publishing 09/07/2018
Land Acquisition for Crossrail Micro-report

The land acquisition process undertaken for Crossrail has been amongst the most complex ever undertaken in the UK, given the extent of the project from Reading and Heathrow in the west through to Shenfield and Woolwich t...

Ian Lindsay 09/07/2018
Crossrail Main Civils Contract Works Information Part 2B Good Practice Document

The Works Information sections of the NEC3 Contract documents used by Crossrail consisted of: Part 2A – Particular Works Information – relevant to the individual project Part 2B – General Requirements ...

Crossrail Ltd 17/07/2018
Validating Project Information Micro-report

The Crossrail project involved hundreds of contractors and sub-contractors – each having their own working procedures and Electronic Data Management Systems (EDMS). The ability to interface with other business systems ...

Lina Vasiljevaite BBM 09/07/2018
Fire design strategy in permanent tunnel linings (secondary linings) Technical Paper

This paper focuses on the fire design strategy that has been set up for permanent tunnel linings (secondary linings), with regard to their structural capacity under a fire event. This design is part of Crossrail Contract...

Jose Suarez Diaz MSc CEng MICE, ICE Publishing 09/07/2018
Watermist Systems – Understanding the Technology Technical Paper

The misunderstandings of a Watermist system during the initial stages of the Crossrail project and the subsequent designs produced which failed to meet the fundamental request to provide an engineered solution to the tra...

Gerry Mullan EngTech MIFireE, ICE Publishing 09/07/2018