Northern Trains Limited

Brief Description

Vextrix has been engaged to provide Project and Programme Management, Quantity Surveying, Contract Administration and Principal Designer Services for this Northern project.

Having worked with Northern since 2009 at the inception of the company, we have become one of the organisation’s partners to lead on their major investment programmes.  We believe the relationship formed between the leaders of the businesses, the business functions and operational staff and the continued work delivered between us, is evidence of the way in which Vextrix does business.

The works under this particular programme have seen investment in customer facilities, staff facilities, offices, car parks, depots, accessibility improvements and station infrastructure improvements and have seen us deliver both new build and refurbishment construction projects within a complex working environment and across a wide group of stakeholders and communities across the North of England.

Through working in partnership with Northern over the last ten years, and in this programme in particular, Vextrix has brought value, innovation and knowledge sharing/collaboration in the following areas:

• Savings in excess of £1m found within a £7m LED Lighting project covering 470 locations through working with the supply chain
• Savings in excess of £3m through managing single dig working operations to minimise disruption at stations and future proof facilities for future installations
• Provision of CPD and mentoring regarding CDM, Asbestos, Project Management process and JCT Contract Administration requirements to Northern Staff
• Co-locating of both Northern and Vextrix Project Managers to increase productivity and collaboration
• Integrating over 15 different design and consultancy companies into a single programme and establishing a framework for knowledge sharing and truly genuine collaboration to increase design quality and accuracy
• Future implementation of innovative solutions for CCTV camera systems integrated within LED lights saving on infrastructure/civils enabling costs
• Implementation of innovative low-cost public address speaker systems at stations reducing equipment provision requirements by over 50%
• Generation of funds in excess of £2m from third party funders to allow for further investment in stations
• Being a face of Northern for project delivery and recognised by other Industry Stakeholders as an integrated member of their team assisting in the successful project delivery, giving external stakeholders and funders confidence the job will be done and we will do what we say.

We had also provided Lead Design services for numerous Northern Rail projects including the Station Improvement Programme, Platform Validators project and Crew Accommodation.

Lead Design services included co-ordination of other specialist sub-consultants, submission of Landlord Consents and other Network Rail forms and Procedures.