Costain wins top environmental award for Crossrail

Costain has won Crossrail’s top environmental award, for its work on the Paddington New Yard project.

Costain have been awarded Crossrail’s Green Line Award, which rewards individuals and teams for tackling environmental issues and supporting environmental best practice. It aims to improve environmental awareness and achieve positive environmental behaviour change across all of Crossrail’s sites, with the ultimate goal of improving environmental performance.

Crossrail’s Technical Director, Chris Sexton, presented to the award to the project team, who worked on the Paddington New Year Project.

Paddington New Yard is located between the Westbourne Park Tube station and Paddington National Rail station, and contains both the Royal Oak Portal and Westbourne Park Crossrail worksites.

The contract includes the construction of a new 180m long elevated bus deck which connects to Westbourne Park Bus Garage, the relocation of an existing concrete batching plant, and preparatory works for the installation of new rail track and associated systems.

“We are delighted to receive a Green Line Award from Crossrail. This award is important for the project because it represents recognition of a team-wide effort to deliver a project where exemplary environmental management is integral to its success and not just a ‘nice-to-have’,” said Robert Lockwood, the Environment Manager working on the project.

In order to obtain the award, the team had to submit a comprehensive assessment of the project which demonstrated their achievements against a set of clearly defined criteria, with the main areas under assessment being environmental change and raising awareness about environmental issues.

Areas assessed included the monitoring, learning and communication of environmental projects, provision of guidance and learning to all project team members, daily / weekly communication of relevant environmental incidents and the communication of lessons learning and timely reporting of environmental incidents.

Costain successfully demonstrated this through a range of methods including a simple initiative called the “Ring Before You Roller” campaign, which was brought in following complaints from site neighbours after rolling events commenced on site during summer 2015.

“The initiative, which involved careful planning and liaison with neighbours, and the way in which it was implemented meant that the site team successfully took ownership of the issue,” said Tracey Taylorson, the project Community Liaison Manager, adding that work progressed without delays and with the support of Westminster City Council.

The Green Line Award is awarded on the basis that the initiatives are consistant and long-term, with follow up site-visits from a Crossrail Environmental representative, to ensure that long-term improvements have been made.

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