Railway Civil Engineers Association
The RCEA advances professional development and knowledge in railway engineering, including main lines, metros, and light rail.
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Places for London is TfL's property company with big plans for the capital. With over 5,500 acres of land across the capital covering all London boroughs, TfL is one of London’s largest landowners. Places for London’s mission is to untap the potential of that land to improve existing properties and build new ones to meet the growing needs of our city.
This event will introduce the audience to Places for London and explore a range of challenges facing the teams to deliver commercially viable property schemes in the railway environment.
Speakers will discuss Places for London’s approach to managing a large estate and how they are unlocking land for development in a highly regulated railway environment.
The event will explore a range of engineering challenges as well as discussing other factors which influence Places for London’s investment decisions.
The speakers will use a number of case studies to bring to life the engineering and other challenges faced by the team.
A voucher for a free drink up to the value of £5 will be provided to the first 50 RCEA members that attend.
The RCEA advances professional development and knowledge in railway engineering, including main lines, metros, and light rail.
Welcome and RCEA introduction
Event introduction
Lecture: Places for London - commercial development in a railway environment
Q&A and event round up
Drinks in the ICE bar
Places for London
programme engineering manager
With more than 30 years' experience in the construction industry, Steve leads the architecture, design and engineering team within Places for London; Transport for London's (TfL) commercial property subsidiary. Steve is a Civil Engineer and member of the Institution of Civil Engineers who has worked in both private and public sector organisations. He started his career with a civil engineering contactor undertaking temporary works design for tunnelling and ground engineering projects and has worked in contracting, consulting and client organisations before joining TfL in 2007. Steve’s multi-disciplinary engineering team at Places for London are responsible for the delivery of technical scopes and specifications for works across TfL’s non-operational estate. They also manage the technical assurance process and interfaces with the transport operations and operational assets. Working with some of the UK’s largest property developers and well known supply chain partners, Steve’s team deliver a challenging development programme in a highly complex and regulated environment.
Places for London
principal engineer, infrastructure protection
Claire is a Chartered Civil Engineer who has worked within TfL Engineering for the last 13 years. She currently leads the infrastructure protection team within Places for London, engineering.
In her early career Claire undertook several roles across London Underground before taking up her position within the infrastructure protection team. Her role initially focused on third party development adjacent to the railway and progressed to complex schemes such as the White City development area, Knightsbridge over station development and the Crossrail over station development portfolio.
Claire’s team now support the wider property development portfolio within Places for London through early scheme feasibility, planning and disposal alongside supporting Places joint venture partners in the safe delivery of residential and commercial schemes. This ensures the infrastructure protection requirements are embedded early within engineering scheme development alongside legal and commercial agreements reducing risk to the transport assets and operations are minimised.
Claire also supports TfL consulting as an infrastructure protection subject matter expert, and has recently supported Transport Infrastructure Ireland on the proposed Metrolink scheme in Dublin.
Places for London
principal engineer, electrical and mechanical
Claire has worked in the construction industry for 20 years, and currently leads the building services team (electrical, fire and mechanical) within Places for London, which is TfL’s commercial entity.
Claire is an Electrical Engineer, and a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), who has worked within the highways and rail sector for the duration of her career.
Claire started her career working with utilities providers, designing lighting for existing and new road and motorway schemes in Kent. Claire worked with a large highways contractor, before moving to work with a rail consultant undertaking electrical design and installation works on London Underground station upgrade projects, before joining TfL in 2014.
Claire’s building services team at Places for London are responsible for the delivery of technical scopes, specifications, and designs for engineering works across TfL’s non-operational estate. They also provide and manage the technical assurance process and interfaces with the transport operations and operational assets.
Working with a large number of engineering teams, internal and external stakeholders, Claire and her team focus on delivering engineering excellence with a focus on safety and compliance within a railway environment.
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