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DLR lift renewals: Smart sequencing to maintain step-free access
Smart sequencing has been the key to success for Octavius’ Docklands Light Railway (DLR) lift renewal programme. Throughout the work the focus has been on passenger experience, ensuring step-free access was always available, on all routes, for the system’s users.
Achieving this required developing a detailed understanding of the network which encompassed the configuration of each station and their lift provisions, as well as the individual routes and system as a whole. Also key was maintaining a comprehensive knowledge of all other renewals, as well as planned and reactive maintenance work, being undertaken across the light railway.
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DLR lift renewals: Smart sequencing to maintain step-free access
DLR lift renewals: Smart sequencing to maintain step-free access
Smart sequencing has been the key to success for Octavius’ Docklands Light Railway (DLR) lift renewal programme. Throughout the work ...
Public realm creation, Eastbourne, Terminus Road
Public realm creation, Eastbourne, Terminus Road
Flexibility key to success
Terminus Road is the principal thoroughfare between Eastbourne town centre and the East Sussex resort’s ...
Junction improvement, Hastings, Albert Road
Junction improvement, Hastings, Albert Road
Swift mobilisation, efficient delivery
Albert Road is a busy thoroughfare, leading to Hastings’ seafront and a three-way junction with the ...
Barnes Access for All: Established solution, site-specific challenges
Barnes Access for All: Established solution, site-specific challenges
Octavius completed the project to make Barnes Station accessible to all users in 2025. The work followed the proven Access for ...
Lyneham Banks reinstatement: reconnecting communities
Lyneham Banks reinstatement: reconnecting communities
Closed following a major landslip in 2022, the B4069 at Lyneham Banks, Wiltshire, was successfully reinstated and future proofed in a ...
March public realm: All about community and collaboration
March public realm: All about community and collaboration
A project like March may not seem anything out of the ordinary: new pedestrian areas, new carriage ways and new ...
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M25 Gade Valley Viaduct – Innovative Rolling Access Deck
M25 Gade Valley Viaduct – Innovative Rolling Access Deck
A clever solution to work on the underside of a motorway bridge was a rolling deck scaffold.
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Swindon – ECI Delivers Road over Rail Modular Solution
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Hendon – Temporary parking deck enables 1,309 new homes on retail site
Hendon – Temporary parking deck enables 1,309 new homes on retail site
At Hendon in London, land occupied by a supermarket and car park was given the green light for redevelopment into 1,309 ...
Rail E&P – Switchgear Renewals – Improving efficiency and certainty
Rail E&P – Switchgear Renewals – Improving efficiency and certainty
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Uxbridge Business Park – Quick, affordable, permanent parking solution
Uxbridge Business Park – Quick, affordable, permanent parking solution
At Uxbridge Business Park, close to the M25, recent growth had led to the need for more parking spaces.
The ...
Rail ‘AfA’ – Sensat – Drones survey four stations in just two days
Rail ‘AfA’ – Sensat – Drones survey four stations in just two days
On Access for All Schemes, track access for traditional station surveys can take months to arrange. The team upgrading four ...
HV Feeder Renewals – Portsmouth to London – fast track to completion
HV Feeder Renewals – Portsmouth to London – fast track to completion
Renewal of high voltage feeder cables is a significant ongoing programme for improving resilience of the rail network.
Replacement of ...
E&P Capability – Full speed ahead on Wessex Route
E&P Capability – Full speed ahead on Wessex Route
Such has been the success of the integration of Electrification and Plant (E&P) activities under the collaborative umbrella ...
M25 Digital Twin – 3D visualisation using Drones
M25 Digital Twin – 3D visualisation using Drones
“It’s encouraging to see that the UK is not just leading in Artificial Intelligence research, but also increasingly in ...
Rail Embankment Failures – Four Schemes in One Blockade
Rail Embankment Failures – Four Schemes in One Blockade
“Thank you for your hard work in delivering this complex job at short notice, going from no scope to a ...
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