{"id":3752,"date":"2019-03-07T07:35:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2019-03-07T07:35:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:35:17","slug":"crossrail-enters-intense-contractor-talks-to-set-finish-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/crossrail-enters-intense-contractor-talks-to-set-finish-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossrail enters intense contractor talks to set finish date"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crossrail chiefs have refused to set a single fixed target date to open the seriously delayed infrastructure project in favour of a wide window for completion.<\/p>\n

Chief executive Mark Wild told spending watchdog MPs that the project would not be completed this year, and added he sincerely hoped it would be completed in 2020.<\/p>\n

Wild told Public Accounts Committee MPs that his team had spent two months unravelling the knots in the ‘compressed’ project and building a new logical sequence of work to complete the project.<\/p>\n

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He said and was now starting four weeks of talks with Tier 1 contractors to verify whether the productivity assumptions on the new plan were valid and deliverable.<\/p>\n

Wild said that by next month Crossrail would set out its plans to complete the project within the new planned cost envelope of \u00a318bn rather than \u00a315bn as previously planned.<\/p>\n

“We will present a window\u00a0 – it won’t be a definitive date because there is still a lot of uncertainty – but we will have a window when this railway will open.<\/p>\n

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“There is no opportunity to open this railway in 2019 because of the various compressions of both the\u00a0critical\u00a0path stations and the signalling systems.<\/p>\n

“We very much\u00a0want to get this done in 2020.”<\/p>\n

He added that if the stations had of held their original programme the original December 2018 opening date would have been achievable.<\/p>\n

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“But when the railway\u00a0stations started to slip in 2016\/17 we should have paused for breath and resequenced the programme,” he said.<\/p>\n

“At that point, the racheting\u00a0effect of systematic risk was building up because really you want the stations finished before you put the train through the tunnel”<\/p>\n

“It is now likely we will finish the railway systems before the stations,” added Wild.<\/p>\n

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