Crossrail Tottenham Court Road Station
Tottenham Court Road, London, UK · 2009-2017 (construction of station box and tunnels) · > £100M (for station design and construction, part of the larger Crossrail budget)
The judgement call
Account-gated at launchSignificant upgrade and expansion of an existing major transport hub. - Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DfMA) approach used for efficiency. - Complex engineering solutions for constructing deep underground in a sensitive environment.
Key engineering challenges
Construction of a new station box and tunnels in a highly congested urban area. - Managing challenging ground conditions, particularly during sprayed concrete lined (SCL) tunnel construction. - Creating the Elizabeth Line's only curved platform, requiring precise engineering. - Integration with existing London Underground infrastructure and over-site developments.
Project facts
- Client / owner
- Crossrail Ltd
- Lead contractor
- Laing O'Rourke
- Lead designers
- Hawkins\Brown (delivery architect); Arup (MEP Engineer, structural engineering design)
- Project type
- new build; upgrade
- Scale
- New ticket hall six times larger than previous; new public plaza; 250m long platforms; 30m below ground; only curved platform on the Elizabeth Line.
- 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.
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