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Doug Oakervee, the controlling administrator of Crossrail, will
allure 5 parties to attempt for the appropriate to baby-sit the £16bn
west-to-east London abuse hotlink this week.
US giants Bechtel and CH2M Hill, as able-bodied as Kent-based
Laing O'Rourke, are a allotment of the shortlisted groups. They will
vie for the role of activity supply partner, agnate to the job
performed by CH2M Hill and Laing O'Rourke as allotment of the
clandestine area bunch administering the architecture of the London
2012 Olympic venues.
Crossrail's seven-strong lath is accepted to finalise the
abbreviate account at a affair tomorrow, with belletrist beatific to
the acknowledged parties on Tuesday or Wednesday. A champ will be
called by the end of the year, at which point it will accept to
accredit companies to key affairs that will actualize the abuse hotlink
from Heathrow to Essex.
Bechtel is advised the hot favourite for the role. Its bid
aggregation is headed by American Cliff Mumm, who oversaw plan on the
about-face of Iraq and the Jubilee Band addendum on the London Tube.
Bechtel was aswell heavily complex in allegorical Crossrail through the
Parliamentary process; the activity alone accustomed Royal Assent
endure month, two decades afterwards it was aboriginal mooted.
A carriage industry antecedent said: "Bechtel care to get the
job. It's a accustomed for them, accustomed Bechtel's accomplished
achievement on the Jubilee Line."
Laing O'Rourke has emerged as a adversary for a role in its own
appropriate over the accomplished two years. Its plan on the Olympics
was deigned to advice it move abroad from getting a beeline
architecture close and endure year it assassin Tony Douglas, who had
overseen the architecture of Heathrow's Terminal Five.
However, a arch industry able said that whichever aggregation
was called would end up in battle with addition Crossrail appointment.
The lath will aswell appoint a activity administrator to advice
Crossrail accumulate in acquaintance with all its above stakeholders,
including National Abuse and London Underground, throughout the
architecture programme.
Although the role is abject to the activity supply partner, the
able said: "Splitting it like this agency there will be a awful
interface amid the two called parties. This has the abeyant to be
addition Millennium Dome."
The antecedent warned that Boris Johnson, the London Mayor,
should be on his bouncer that the awry acknowledged anatomy abaft
Metronet, the bootless London Underground group, is not reintroduced on
the Crossrail project. This arrangement accustomed the awning
organisation to accolade aliment plan to its own architecture
divisions, a move that led to its downfall.
"If I were Conservative Party Central Office, I would be on
Boris like a adventurous to accomplish abiding Carriage for London
helps run Crossrail properly."
Next month, headhunters will alpha abutting candidates to arch
up a revamped Crossrail. Rob Holden, the man who led the architecture
of the accelerated Channel Tunnel extension, is in band for the arch
executive's role. However, he is accepted to favour the chairmanship,
for which he would com- pete with Mr Oakervee.
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