London Underground and Crossrail win awards at International Tunnelling Awards

London Underground and Crossrail have had major success, winning two awards at the 2015 International Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards.

London Underground won the Global Tunnelling Project of the Year (under $500M) Award for the Bond Street station upgrade.

Europe’s largest infrastructure, Crossrail, won the Judge’s Supreme Award.

The Bond Street Station upgrade is part of TfL’s multi-million pound investment programme to improve and expand the transport network. The project team are reconfiguring the station to provide 30% more capacity, provide fewer delays, less congestion, step-free access and quicker journeys in and out of the station. The new ticket hall beneath Marylebone Lane will open in 2017.

Nick Brown, Managing Director, London Underground, said: “Over 200 engineers and staff have been working on site at Bond Street 24-hours-a-day, for two years. This complex station upgrade – beneath an extraordinarily small footprint on Oxford Street – has been largely constructed out-of-sight, all while keeping this essential station open to the public.”

Crossrail tunnelling began in 2012 and ended at Farringdon in May with the breakthrough of tunnelling machine Victoria. Eight 1,000 tonne tunnelling machines bored 26 miles or 42 km of new 6.2m diameter rail tunnels under London.

Simon Wright, Crossrail Programme Director, said: “This award is fantastic recognition for everyone who works on Crossrail. Over the last three years, our highly skilled team have worked tirelessly to build these major tunnels under one of the world’s busiest cities.”

London Underground were also successful in Rehabilitation Project of the Year and Tunnel Operator of the Year.

Crossrail were winners for Product/Equipment of the Year, Rising Star of the Year and Technical Innovation of the Year.

With the population of London predicted to reach ten million by 2030, it is the fasted growing city in Europe.

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