Client adviser: Linewide Stations Group - Atkins Grimshaw GIA Equation Maynard.
Opened 2022
Client advice and technical services from 2013 to opening in 2022 for consistent use based design for a world class passenger experience. The design concept was developed into a functional family of products, components and finishes for manufacture and integration by Crossrail’s architects and nine station contractors using latest safety, standardisation and systems design techniques.
Client: Crossrail and Atkins to Crossrail Chief Engineer’s Group.
Group: Atkins, Grimshaw, Maynard, GIA Equation, Arup, UP Projects, Sonia Boyce OBE RA.
Cost: Capital value, circa £6bn.
Linewide concept CGI, platform level
Escalator head, Whitechapel station
Requirement resolution stages
Linewide totem uplighter prototype
Linewide fire sign prototype
Platform edge structure
Requirements’ development, prototyping and performance testing for 2.5km modular structure built out by five station contractors.
Station tunnel linings
Standardised and modular fibrous concrete panels designed as a cladding systems totalling 50,000m2 at five stations.
Central London sub surface stations
The concept design was included in the Employer’s Design Requirement and made, then integrated by nine different contractors forming a unifying passenger experience.
