Jubilee Line Extension Project

Client: London Underground, JNP (PPP)
Project Value: £3.5bn
Location: Green Park to Stratford

Extension of the London Underground Jubilee line from Green Park to Stratford through south and east London. Costing a total of £3.5bn when completed, the project had been expected to take just under three years to complete. The opening of the new route also saw the diversion of the Jubilee Line away from its original terminus at Charing Cross, with the new line running from Green Park to Westminster, Waterloo and on eastwards to a new terminus at Stratford. The extension is ten miles (16km) long and was opened in December 1999. Following the opening and the initial operation of rolling stock on the network there were several thousand snagging and defect issues to be addressed as well as further infrastructure improvements on the existing route to improve the service capacity from 1 train every 3 minutes to 1 train every 2mins.

Snagging issues ranged from architectural finishes but also more crucial functional issues of trains not always being able to line up correctly with the doors to the platform glass partitions. Our initial role was therefore to establish and agree programmes with the contractors and engineering teams for the making good of these defects in a reasonable timescale whilst also complying with the stringent procedures for the safe implementation of works and having the agreement to proceed with the track and station operators and London Underground Ltd.

In addition to this management role the PM team also undertook particular station enhancement schemes. Such schemes were a consequence of the handover of stations to the operators and their requested remediation to respond to either an operational effectiveness issue or safety concern. For example the glass partitioning at the top of the escalators at Canary Wharf station.