Crossrail Liverpool Street Station
Liverpool Street, London, UK · 2010-2017 (construction of station box and tunnels)
The judgement call
Account-gated at launchCollaboration between multiple design firms and contractors for a complex underground station. - Use of advanced tunnelling techniques for deep underground construction.
Key engineering challenges
Construction of station tunnels and shafts in a highly congested urban area. - Complex construction, including sprayed concrete lined (SCL) tunnels. - Integration with existing Liverpool Street Station and surrounding infrastructure.
Project facts
- Client / owner
- Crossrail Ltd
- Lead contractor
- Laing O'Rourke
- Lead designers
- Hawkins\Brown (delivery architect); Wilkinson Eyre (design architect); Arup (MEP Engineer, structural engineering design)
- Project type
- new build
- Scale
- Downward construction of a 37m long by 6m diameter inclined shaft; part of the 118km Crossrail project.
- Disciplines
- Civil engineering; structural engineering; geotechnical engineering; tunnelling; architecture; mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering
- Standards & frameworks
- Crossrail project standards; UK building and railway standards.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossrail; https://www.hawkinsbrown.com/projects/liverpool-street-station-elizabeth-line/; https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hawkins-brown-architects-ltd_liverpool-street-station-elizabeth-line-activity-6934537183823368192-5Hy2; https://www.wembleyinnovation.co.uk/project/liverpool-street-station/; https://www.arup.com/en-us/projects/crossrail-elizabeth-line-station-technical-design/; https://www.railway-technology.com/projects/crossrail-liverpool-street-station-london/; https://learninglegacy.crossrail.co.uk/learning-legacy-themes/engineering/civils/; https://www.balfourbeatty.com/what-we-do/projects/crossrail-whitechapel-and-liverpool-street-station-tunnels/