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Capita wins Crossrail western portal contract
28 May, 2009 | Updated: 28 May, 2009 4:56 pm | By Ed Owen, Mark Hansford
Consultant Capita Symonds has won the contract to design the Crossrail western portal near Royal Oak in west London.
The £3M contract is the first to be tendered under the Crossrail Design Consultant Framework – the contracting mechanism used to deliver the designs for all infrastructure in the central tunnelled section of the project.
The frameworks were announced in December 2008 and Capita Symonds will work on the site which lies to the west of Paddington to provide transition from the overground to the underground sections of Crossrail.
Commenting on the award, Crossrail programme director Graham Plant said: “With the successful start of construction at Canary Wharf, we have taken another step towards making this project a reality. Crossrail looks forward to a fruitful partnership with Capita Symonds.”
Speaking to NCE, chief executive Jonathan Goring told NCE that: “It is a cracking project and if you look at what it means in terms of investments and the benefits downstream it is one of those things that had to happen.”
The portal is critical to Crossrail as it is the site for launching the Tunnel Boring Machines for the Central West tunnel sections of the railway scheme.
From this point, a tunnel boring machine will head east, while another will work westward from the Limmo Peninsula - a site currently serving the new Docklands Light Railway (DLR) extension to London’s City airport.
The TBMs will meet at Farringdon where their journey ends.
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