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Crossrail is not expected to be completed until the first half of 2022. Credit: PA The Mayor of London and TfL will need a “Sherlock-style forensic focus” to deliver Crossrail on time, according to a new report from the London Assembly. Originally due to open in December 2018, Crossrail is now not expected to be ready until the first half of 2022, with TfL having been handed responsibility for the project in October last year. The Assembly’s transport committee has said it is “con...

Crossrail | Optimism bias, lack of specialist engineers and inadequate management threaten project delivery The London Assembly’s transport committee has called for a “Sherlock style forensic focus” to ensure Crossrail meets its revised 2022 opening date. In its report Crossrail: Light at the end of the tunnel?, the committee outlines several risks to the project’s timely completion including “optimism bias […] a lack of specialist engineers [and] inadequate project management”. ...

Crossrail engineers leaving for HS2 is ‘a big risk’ for London project Crossrail chief executive Mark Wild has conceded that there is a "big risk" of specialist engineers leaving the project to work on High Speed 2 (HS2) before the Elizabeth line is open. As Crossrail nears completion and work ramps up on HS2, concerns have been raised about Crossrail’s ability to hang on to specialist engineers needed to complete the job. The London Assembly transport committee will publish a paper on Cr...

In his monthly update to the London Assembly, Wild described the station handover timetable as “critical” to getting the Elizabeth line up and running by

Bringing in the new year, the first episode of 2021 explores the world of systems engineering after the recent ICE report on the topic. NCE editor Claire Smith is joined by Amey principal engineering manager Matt Gibson and Bentley Systems senior director of progressive assurance systems Chris Rolison on the podcast. The three explore questions such as: What is systems engineering? What benefits will it bring to civil engineering projects and the engineers working on them? And what are the chal...

A bit ago we discovered that you can get customers excited about something as ordinary as salt when you give them insight into your passion behind it. >> a red salt from hawaii for pork, seafood. >> mark bitterman has changed the way people think about salt. >> when you have a couple of salts here, your smoked salt. >> yeah. >> your chocolate salt. >> it started with a trip overseas with his wife jennifer. >> one day i was just riding through the north of france and i stopped by a truck stop to ...