1. Crossrail MOVING LONDON FORWARD

2. Crossrail – enabling London to grow
High Capacity Metro Railway
Crossrail is the largest infrastructure project in Europe
Costing £14.8bn connecting 40 stations running from Reading in the west, to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east through 42kms of newly construction tunnels underneath central and south east London.
The new line will, for the first time, connect Europe’s busiest airport, Heathrow, with the key employment hubs – the West End, the City of London and Canary Wharf on one rail line.
Within the central section 24 trains per hour will operate in both directions enabling 200m journeys per year or a 10% increase in London’s rail capacity (the largest increase since World War II).
£14.8bn
cost
£42bn
net benefit
118 km
length
40 (10 new)
stations 24
Trains/hour
200m
journeys pa

3. Project progress

4. Tunnelling complete

5. Project progress
New track
New track
Tottenham Court Road
Farringdon

6. Video – project update

7. Tottenham Court Road
Note – slide begins with an empty map and ‘builds’ on each click:
Click 1 – Centre Point building
Click 2 – LU tunnels (Central line and Northern line) and existing station
Click 3 – LU proposed changes
Click 4 – Crossrail station
Click 5 – OSD

8. Target Zero and the golden rules
We all have the right to go home unharmed everyday
We believe all harm is preventable
We must all work together to achieve this
At peak construction, Crossrail employed more than 10,000 people across 40 sites in London.  
However, it is the complexity of the project that it just as daunting as its size. London is already a hugely congested city both above and below ground. In central London where space is at a premium, worksites are small and confined. Tunnelling machines had to weave in and out of the assets already below ground, often passing within centimetres of existing tunnels. No two of the 40 worksites dotted across London are the same – each has its own work programme and its own risks. Moreover, the project has never stood still as its profile has changed constantly from tunnelling, to fit-out and now onto energistaion and dynamic testing. Crossrail’s main focus has been to embed health and safety culture into every aspect of the project. Its three ‘Target Zero’ principles are intended to guide everyone’s behaviour at all times, regardless of whether the are working in Head Office or 30 metres underground. These state that everyone have the right to go home unharmed every day; that all harm is preventable; and that everyone needs to work together to achieve this.

9. Health and Safety Performance Indicators
Contractors are not measured just on their on historic performance. We also score them on a basket of leading indicators - the measures that they put in place to prevent accidents from occurring in the first place.
The Health and Safety Performance Index (HSPI) combines a series of these leading indicators that evaluate contractors on their performance and allows us to confirm compliance or identify any emerging areas of concern. Each year metrics have been made harder and performance has continued to improve.
The chart shows a clear correlation between HSPI and RIDDOR rates – putting measures in place to prevent accidents from taking place brings down the RIDDOR rate.

10. Safety and Health Leadership Team (SHELT)
Developed from Olympics
Project Director level strategy planning
Working groups develop cross programme approach
Agreed ‘rules’ for programme
Site hosted visits, with Tier 2/3 input to meetings

11. Stepping up Week
A twice yearly event, used to highlight different aspects
Held at site level, local control around core themes
External speakers, equipment demos, experiences
Day, night, weekends

12. 2019 – Elizabeth line opens fully
4 tph
2 TPH
16 tph
2 tph
24 tph
4 TPH
12 TPH +
4 TPH (Liv St High Level)
24 TPH
12 tph
6 TPH
12 TPH
12 tph
2 tph
4 tph
December 2019: Elizabeth line fully open. Services run between Reading and Heathrow in the west and Abbey Wood and Shenfield in the east. Peak time services shown above.

13. Reduction in journey times
Current journey time
Crossrail journey time
Canary Wharf to Liverpool Street
22 minutes
6 minutes
Paddington to Whitechapel
27 minutes
13 minutes
Ealing Broadway to Farringdon
39 minutes
16 minutes
Tottenham Court Road to Woolwich
42 minutes
20 minutes

14. Social sustainability - skills
Crossrail skills strategy
Sept 2017
Maintaining safety
704 Apprentices
Inspiring future talent
15,000 enrolled at TUCA
Supporting local labour
The Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy (TUCA) is a purpose-built training facility that supports the key skills required to work in tunnel excavation, underground construction and infrastructure.
TUCA was established in 2011 by Crossrail, to address a shortage of people with the necessary skills to work underground on the transport scheme and on other planned infrastructure projects.
TUCA is the only facility in Europe dedicated to the education of soft-ground tunnelling techniques. Its curriculum is driven by the needs of the industry and the vast building houses an unrivalled range of specialist plant and equipment. The training at TUCA is delivered by the National Construction College.
Crossrail is working with industry, professional bodies and other organisations with a requirement for skilled underground workers, to ensure that the facilities and training at TUCA are aligned with the needs of the industry.
Crossrail is training the next generation of underground construction workers, vital to the delivery of Crossrail, as well as the next generation of projects such as HS2 and Crossrail 2.
517 Apprenticeships have already been created by Crossrail – beating our target of creating 400 apprenticeships with over three years to go
4,398 jobs have been created by contractors for local and/or previously unemployed people
Crossrail’s Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy has had over 10,000 enrolments on courses since opening in 2012
Over 1,000 work experience opportunities and work placements have been created by the project so far
27% of apprentice intake in last 12 months female
Revitalising the skills base
4,544 jobs for local people
All figures are running totals bar ‘employed on project’

15. National Colleges for High Speed Rail
Colleges in Birmingham and Doncaster
To focus on engineering, design, planning, manufacturing and construction
At full capacity, colleges will train 1,200 people every year
Cutting edge technology with virtual and augmented reality training rooms classrooms

16. Property impacts
£10.6bn (previously £5.5bn) additional residential and commercial property value by 2021
Support 90,000 (previously 55,000) new homes by 2021
4.4m (previously 3.25m) square feet of commercial office floor space by 2021
Between 2008 and 2016, 48% of planning applications within 1 km of stations make a direct reference to Crossrail supporting their proposals

17. Environmental sustainability
CO2 emissions per passenger km
London Buses
London Underground
Docklands Light Railway
Tramlink
London Overground
Elizabeth line (provisional)
Minimising energy consumption during the construction and operational life of Crossrail has always been a key focus area for the project. Protection of the physical environment is another core component of Crossrail’s sustainability strategy.
A key plank of this has been the ground breaking relationship we established with the RSPB to put the 3.4million tonnes of spoil from our tunnelling operations back in to beneficial re-use through the construction of a new bird sanctuary in the Thames Estuary. The first cell of this new wetland has now been completed.
More broadly, Crossrail has insisted that construction machinery used on our worksites complies with emissions controls requirements that already meet the targets set by the GLA for 2015.
80% of non-exempt construction equipment is compliant and we continue to work to reduce exemptions and improve compliance.
Construction energy reduction:
LED tunnel lighting saving 38% CO2
Use of LED site lighting
High spec site accommodation
Use of power factor correction
Hybrid site lighting and excavators
Use of biodiesel generators
Fuel efficient driving techniques
Reuse of dewatering water and filter press water for tunnelling operations
Rolling stock & depot
Crossrail trains will be lightweight, and energy efficient
Maximised passenger capacity – 200m long trains with wide aisles
Regenerates energy during braking (major savings in energy and CO2 emissions) - minimises heat energy into the tunnel
Each train will have around 450 seats and a capacity for 1,500 passengers overall. Wide through gangways between carriages, and ample space in the passenger saloons, and around the doors, will reduce passenger congestion while allowing room for those with heavy luggage or pushchairs.
Four designated wheelchair spaces will be provided on each train
A significant solar photovoltaic array combined with ground source heat is planned for the Old Oak Common depot which would reduce the overall operational carbon footprint. This contract has now been procured and the design includes both solar photovoltaic and thermal piles
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18. Wallasea Island Transportation process
Material exited the tunnels at three points:
Royal Oak in the west – material was then transferred by train to Northfleet Wharf where it was loaded onto ships.
Limmo in the east – material was loaded directly onto the ships at Instone Wharf.
Material coming out of stations and shafts was transported to the Barking Waste transfer site, where it was loaded onto ships.
Benefits of this included saving 100,000 HGVs from London’s roads – that reduced risk for us.
Risk: very limited storage at each site if part of the transportation chain failed. We had to design plans to prepare for this eventuality.

19. MOVING LONDON FORWARD Questions The current TfL route network map
CLICK through to the Crossrail Line and how it will fit into the map.
MOVING LONDON FORWARD