Crossrail, Europe’s largest infrastructure project, has achieved an impressive 24 wins at the 2015 Considerate Constructors Scheme National Awards.
Crossrail worksites are situated in the heart of some of London’s busiest communities. These national awards are given to recognise sites registered with the scheme that have raised the bar for considerate construction and improving the industry’s image.
Entries are judged on the measures a site has put in place to be considerate towards local neighbourhoods and the public, the workforce, and the environment.
Chris Sexton, Technical Director, Crossrail said: “Infrastructure projects on the scale and complexity of Crossrail can only be delivered with the support of local communities around individual construction sites and along the route. This is a tremendous achievement for Crossrail and our partner contactors who have worked hard to raise construction industry standards. The Considerate Constructors Awards recognise not only the measures we’ve put in place but those of everyone working on Crossrail. Congratulations to all the Crossrail winners.”
Cllr Richard Beddoe, Westminster City Council cabinet member for city management, said: “Crossrail is a huge engineering project that has been conducted just metres under the feet of millions of Londoners who live, work and visit Westminster. It is credit to them, and a credit to the adaptability of Londoners, that disruption has been kept to a minimum.
“Crossrail will bring enormous benefits to London once construction is complete, and Westminster is busy making sure our pavements and streets are ready to accept millions more people into central London. Westminster has a great working relationship with the Crossrail team, as they solve issues quickly and work closely with us to inform our residents and businesses on what is going on and when.”
Crossrail’s 2015 Considerate Constructors Awards winners are:
National runners up
C315 Connaught Tunnel (Vinci Construction)
C300/C410 Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road (Bam Ferrovial Kier Joint Venture)
Gold
C300/C410 Fisher Street Shaft (Bam Ferrovial Kier Joint Venture)
C360 Eleanor Street Shaft (Costain Skanska Joint Venture)
C360 Mile End Shaft (Costain Skanska Joint Venture)
C512 Whitechapel station (Balfour Beatty BeMo Tunnelling Morgan Sindall Vinci Construction Joint Venture)
C412 Hanover Square – Bond Street Eastern Ticket Hall (Costain Skanska Joint Venture)
C336 Paddington New Yard (Costain)
C405 Paddington station (Costain Skanska Joint Venture)
Silver
C501 Liverpool Street station / Moorgate Shaft (Bam Nuttal Kier Joint Venture)
C502 Liverpool Street station (Laing O’Rourke)
C310 Plumstead Portal – Thames Tunnel (Hochtief-Murphy Joint Venture)
C435 Farringdon station (Bam Ferrovial Kier Joint Venture)
C310 North Woolwich Portal (Thames Tunnel) (Hochtief-Murphy Joint Venture)
C340 Victoria Dock Portal (Vinci Construction)
C520 Custom House station (Laing O’Rourke)
C305 Crossrail Eastern Running Tunnels (Dragados Sisk Joint Venture)
Bronze
C807 Docklands Transfer Station (Bam Nuttall Van Oord)
C501 Liverpool Street station / Moorgate Shaft (Bam Nuttall Kier Joint Venture)
C350 Pudding Mill Lane (Morgan Sindall)
C828 Ilford Stabling Depot (Volker Fitzpatrick)
C807 Wallasea Island (Bam Nuttall Van Oord)
Canary Wharf Crossrail station (Canary Wharf Contractors)
C422 Tottenham Court Road station (Laing O’Rourke)
Launched in 1997, the Considerate Constructors’ Scheme Awards were founded as part of a non-profit-making, independent organisation founded by the UK construction industry.
Nick Warburton, editor of SHP magazine, will be interviewing Robert Biggs, a monitor on the Considerate Construction Scheme for the July issue of the magazine.
