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Date 30 MAY 2013
Time 18:00 - 20:00
Event Type Meeting

Refreshments will be available from 18.00 and the presentation will commence at 18.30.
Our speaker is Mike King, Head of Underground Construction on the Crossrail Project.  Mike is seconded into the Technical Directorate of the Project from Halcrow/CH2MHill and has responsibility for the technical aspects and the quality of delivery of the Crossrail tunnels.
Mike will provide an overview of this exciting and extremely large £14.8 billion project which will take the best part of a decade to complete.
His presentation will touch on the following areas:-

  • Funding and where this is coming from
  • The organisations that have been set up to deliver the project
  • Economic benefits
  • The geography of the route
  • The facilities that will be provided
  • Examples of the surface works, tunnels, stations, and over-site developments 
  • Construction challenges
  • Rolling stock overview 
  • Opening strategy

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Reading Town Hall
Blagrave Street
Reading
United Kingdom
RG1 1QH

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