Environmental Management Archives - Crossrail Learning Legacy

Crossrail Environmental Lessons Learned

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 [...]

Crossrail Water Consumption Dataset

Crossrail Ltd (CRL) required its tier 1 contractors to record water consumption on a periodic basis. A summary dataset has been made available on water consumption across the Crossrail Central Section Contracts. This data could be useful to future projects as a basic comparison to construction proje [...]

Environmental Dashboards

Environmental data was measured by the Tier 1 contractors and provided to Crossrail Ltd (CRL) as part of the 4-weekly and quarterly reports. CRL collated the data centrally and created environmental dashboard reports which were provided to the Crossrail Sustainability Committee, to directors in th [...]

Crossrail Driver Diesel Exposure Study

This study was carried out by King’s College London on Crossrail’s behalf to characterise the exposure of mobile machinery operatives and allied personnel within the sub-surface and surface level rail construction environment. 10 operatives were recruited to the study between February and Septem [...]

Section 61 Consents Lessons Learned

The Noise and Vibration Guidance Note CoPA 1974 Section 61 Consent Applications and the Model Conditions were developed in consultation with the local authorities and were based upon similar arrangements made between local authorities and other major projects such as CTRL (HS1) and the Thameslink pr [...]

Best Practice in Water Use on Crossrail

Crossrail Ltd (CRL) required its tier 1 contractors to implement best practice for recycling as much water collected on site as practicable for reuse during construction and to minimise water use in site accommodation. This paper presents case studies that demonstrate the best practice measures that [...]

CEEQUAL – Case Studies

On the central section all tunnels, portals (transition structures between surface and tunnel) & shafts (vertical structures linking the tunnel to the surface) have been assessed using the Civil Engineering Environmental Quality (CEEQUAL) methodology. Crossrail’s aim was to achieve an Excellen [...]

Environmental Management Planning

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 man [...]

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