Building Crossrail-A Holistic Approach to Sustainability

At Crossrail, workers are passionate, not just about building a new railway but ensuring it is delivered in a way that provides a lasting economic, environmental, and social sustainability legacy. They have enshrined this in their strategy and governance processes and their contractors have joined them on this journey. This paper provides a comprehensive yet concise account of how Crossrail has organized itself to deliver a sustainable outcome, as well as detailing a structure for successful outcomes. This paper covers four main themes: planning for delivering sustainability on a major infrastructure project, creating a sustainability governance structure to manage sustainability performance, using sustainability assessment methodologies to help outcomes, and encouraging innovation to deliver better sustainability outcomes. This paper will be of particular interest to client organizations responsible for national infrastructure but also provides valuable information for designers and construction professionals.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784478745.081
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • de Silva, Michael
  • Paris, Robert
• Conference:
  • International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2014
  • Location: Long Beach California, United States
  • Date: 2014-11-6 to 2014-11-8
• Publication Date: 2014-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 868-879
• Monograph Title: ICSI 2014: Creating Infrastructure for a Sustainable World

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Business practices; Infrastructure; Organizational factors; Railroad construction; Railroads; Sustainable development
• Identifier Terms: Crossrail
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01549178
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784478745
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Dec 29 2014 11:10AM