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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
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Barnes Access for All: Established solution, site-specific challenges
Barnes Access for All: Established solution, site-specific challenges
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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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A500 Etruria Widening – Open three months early
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Network open three months early
£758k saved on piling method
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100% waste reused or recycled
New River Bridge – Collaborative Solution
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LUL Step Free Access – Design differently to deliver on time
LUL Step Free Access – Design differently to deliver on time
A different design approach helps deliver ‘step free’ access for a tranche of London Underground stations.
Supporting the Mayor of ...
Godalming Station – ‘Access for All’ solution opens 4 weeks early
Godalming Station – ‘Access for All’ solution opens 4 weeks early
Everyone has the right to safely access our rail transport network. To make it possible there has to be an ...
Feltham Station – Step free access compliments platform extension
Feltham Station – Step free access compliments platform extension
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Ashmead Embankment – Rapid response critical to maintain service
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Sustainable Parking at Uxbridge College
Sustainable Parking at Uxbridge College
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Replacing a road bridge over the busy M27 in Hampshire required the conceptual design of a composite steel and concrete ...
River Axe flood alleviation – modular solution delivered in a nine day blockade
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Gade Valley Viaduct – Offline ‘Mock ups’ benefit Customer outcomes
Gade Valley Viaduct – Offline ‘Mock ups’ benefit Customer outcomes
With vehicle numbers increasing at 7% per annum, and the estimated cost of motorway lane closures at £50,000, undertaking essential improvements to ...
Didcot Station – Temporary car deck is a speedy, sustainable, space saving solution
Didcot Station – Temporary car deck is a speedy, sustainable, space saving solution
Short on parking space and needing a permanent or temporary solution?
Parking spaces are becoming an increasingly valuable commodity. Installing ...
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