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John Pelton MBE - Innovation A Crossrail Legacy (Keynote)

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  • Session
  • Wednesday, 26 October 2016
  • 12:26 - 12:26
  • Duration: 28 mins
  • Publication date: 22 Nov 2016
  • Location: NA, Business Design Centre, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Digital Construction Week

About the session

In 2018 Europe’s largest construction project will reach its completion. Construction of the new railway will add an estimated £42bn to the UK economy having generated enough work for the equivalent of 55,000 full time jobs.

There’ll be 40 Crossrail stations including 10 new station across the capital. Over 200,000 tunnel segments lining the 42km of tunnels. More than 3 million tonnes of excavated material. And one of the most extensive archaeological programmes ever undertaken in the UK.

Innovation was at the very heart of the project. Hear from Strategic Projects Director, John Pelton MBE about the innovative processes and technologies applied across the project. And learn how to deploy your own strategies for innovation.

Keywords:
  • BIM
  • I3P
  • civil engineering
  • construction
  • crossrail
  • digital
  • innovation
  • metro railway
  • train
  • transport industry
  • tunnelling

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  • John Pelton

    John Pelton

    Crossrail, Head of Strategic Projects

    John is currently the Strategic Projects Director for Crossrail and Director of the Programme Partner Transcend, a JV between CH2M, AECOM and Nichols. As such he is the lead for the innovation programme, specific complex projects and heading up the programme partner JV.Previously he led the High Speed 2 Efficiency Challenge Programme team, a multidisciplinary team seeking significant savings for the project. The focus was on collaborative working, applying Building Information Modelling, off-site manufacture and optimised design guides and standards. The team identified more than £1b of potential savings from the Phase 1 programme.Prior to that he led the CH2M UK Government Infrastructure team, primarily focussing on Defence, but he was also active in urban regeneration and economic growth within the UK and in looking at disaster relief and post conflict reconstruction/development.John spent the first 29 years of his career serving as a Royal Engineer officer. He fought during the first Gulf War, deployed to the Balkans during the 1990s and latterly to Afghanistan and Iraq. He has supported the RAF, trained junior soldiers, built motorways in Australia and completed construction projects in Kenya. He has also been a strategic planner for the Army, both for operations and in the personnel area, and has led a procurement team providing infrastructure for deployed troops before finally leading the development of an infrastructure programme for the Army’s UK bases and helping to design the nascent Defence Infrastructure Organisation.
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