Environment Webinars

Crossrail has taken part in a number of webinars disseminating the learnings from the Environment Theme. A webinar with the Institution of Environmental Sciences provides an overview of the activity and lessons in the theme as a whole.

Crossrail also developed a specific series of webinars in conjunction with our partners (IEMA and CIRIA) in order to disseminate the detailed learnings from the topic areas within the theme.

In total there are ten webinars in the series, all of which are also available to view below. They cover topics ranging from the beneficial use of excavated material through to noise in construction as well as the initiatives used to collaborate with contractors to improve performance and provide environmental assurance for the project. An overview of how we dealt with the archaeology of the sites is also included using one site as an example.

Environment Webinars:

Summary Publication date Document Type
Document type: Video

Sustainability of the Elizabeth Line

Topic area: Environment Webinars

In this presentation Rob Paris and Lorna Mellings explain how the Crossrail project has impacted a number of different areas of sustainability – from climate change, consumption and production, economic progress, physical environment, health wellbeing, to equality of opportunity and social inclusion....

30/09/2021 Video
Photo of worker sitting in grass at Wallasea Island with an excavator in the background

Crossrail Environmental Lessons Learned

Topic area: Environment Webinars

Crossrail is delivering a new railway to add 10% to central London’s rail capacity. When complete, the Elizabeth line will offer a high frequency, high capacity service linking 41 stations over 100 kilometers transforming travel in London and the South East. Crossrail is a hybrid bill scheme which means that the powe...

03/02/2020 Video
Managing Construction Noise in an Urban Environment

Managing Construction Noise in an Urban Environment

Topic area: Environment Webinars

This is the tenth and final webinar in a series of Crossrail Learning Legacy webinars focused on the Environment Theme. It describes how Crossrail has worked in collaboration with its contractors to drive improved performance for noise management. Noise was one of the main impacts and challenges during the construction...

20/07/2017 Video
Environmental Supplier Performance: Civils

Environmental Supplier Performance: Civils

Topic area: Environment Webinars

This was the ninth in the series of Crossrail Learning Legacy webinars focused on the Environment Theme. This webinar presents an overview of the approach taken by Crossrail to measuring the environmental performance of its tier 1 contractors during the civil construction phase of the project. It describes how the proc...

29/06/2017 Video
Environmental Management Planning

Environmental Management Planning

Topic area: Environment Webinars

This is the eighth in the series of Crossrail Learning Legacy webinars focused on the Environment Theme. Crossrail is one of the largest single infrastructure investments ever undertaken in the UK. Delivering Crossrail has presented a number of complex and challenging issues for environmental management, but at the sam...

25/05/2017 Video
Crossrail’s Approach to Carbon Management

Crossrail’s Approach to Carbon Management

Topic area: Environment Webinars

This webinar describes the identification and management of whole life carbon on Crossrail. It sets out the process of footprinting in the early stages of a project and the problems of creating a meaningful baseline. Crossrail’s whole life carbon model will be presented and examples given as to how carbon reduction h...

27/04/2017 Video
Managing an Archaeological site in an Urban Environment: Broadgate Ticket Hall

Managing an Archaeological site in an Urban Environment: Broadgate Ticket Hall

Topic area: Environment Webinars

This was the sixth in the series of Crossrail Learning Legacy webinars focused on the Environment Theme. It presents an overview of the approach taken by Crossrail to managing archaeological sites in the urban environment; drawing on the experiences of the construction of the Broadgate ticket hall. An in-depth desk bas...

30/03/2017 Video
Environment Webinar – The Green Line Environmental Behaviour Initiatives

Environment Webinar – The Green Line Environmental Behaviour Initiatives

Topic area: Environment Webinars

This is the fifth in the series of Crossrail Learning Legacy webinars focused on the Environment Theme. The Green Line is Crossrail’s environmental award scheme. It rewards individuals and teams on Crossrail’s construction sites who go above and beyond their day-to-day jobs in tackling environmental issues and enco...

02/03/2017 Video
Environment Webinar – Beneficial Use of Excavated Materials

Environment Webinar – Beneficial Use of Excavated Materials

Topic area: Environment Webinars

This is the fourth in a series of Crossrail Learning Legacy webinars focused on the Environment Theme, in conjunction with our partners CIRIA and IEMA. The construction of Crossrail resulted in the generation of over 7 million tonnes of excavated material, of which over 98% was beneficially reused. Crossrail adopted a ...

02/02/2017 Video
Environment Webinar -The Use of Sustainability Assessments on Crossrail: CEEQUAL and BREEAM

Environment Webinar -The Use of Sustainability Assessments on Crossrail: CEEQUAL and BREEAM

Topic area: Environment Webinars

This is the third in a series of Crossrail Learning Legacy webinars focused on the Environment Theme, hosted by our partners at CIRIA and IEMA. It describes how CEEQUAL and BREEAM were used to benchmark the environmental performance of the project. Both BREEAM and CEEQUAL have been and are being extensively used on the...

24/11/2016 Video
Environment Webinar – Delivering Projects in Urban Environments: Temporary Construction Noise Control

Environment Webinar – Delivering Projects in Urban Environments: Temporary Construction Noise Control

Topic area: Environment Webinars

This is the second in a series of Crossrail Learning Legacy webinars focused on the Environment Theme, hosted by our partners at CIRIA and IEMA. It describes how Crossrail has worked in collaboration to mitigate and manage noise and vibration in a major infrastructure project. Crossrail delivers new stations and railwa...

27/10/2016 Video
Environment Webinar – Crossrail Learning Legacy Environment Theme

Environment Webinar – Crossrail Learning Legacy Environment Theme

Topic area: Environment Webinars

This is the first in a series of Crossrail Learning Legacy webinars focused on the Environment Theme, hosted by our partners at CIRIA and IEMA. This webinar aims to provide an overview of the Crossrail Learning Legacy programme and provide an introduction to Crossrail’s approach to dealing with the environmental impa...

29/09/2016 Video

Learning Legacy Partners

Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment

Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment

“Crossrail's environment and sustainability innovations offer our profession huge learning opportunities. At IEMA, we feel the legacy goes far beyond learning. This is about inspiration, direction and the power of what is possible.”

http://www.iema.net/

Construction Industry Research and Information Association logo

Construction Industry Research and Information Association

"The Crossrail Learning Legacy will provide CIRIA members and the wider industry with information and knowledge they can translate into good practice across future construction projects of any size or type."

http://www.ciria.org/