Manchester Metrolink Ph3
Rail & Light Rail
Manchester
900+ million
Project Highlights
TfGM
Rail & Light Rail
£900+ million
M-Pact Thales (MPT) Consortium
M-Pact Thales (MPT) Consortium
FIDIC
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Project Overview
Phase 3 project, secured in 2008 by a consortium formed between Laing O’Rourke, VolkerRail and Thales, was to treble the size of the Manchester Tram system. The design, construction and maintenance contract was to deliver the network expansion of Manchester Metrolink, comprising lines to Media City, South Manchester, East Manchester and Oldham Rochdale, as well as a new depot facility at Trafford Bar.
Further extensions were also awarded to extend the South Manchester line to East Didsbury and the East Manchester line to Ashton, together with a new line to Manchester Airport and town centre routes for Rochdale and Oldham.
Services Provided
Consortium leadership of planning / project controls
Strategic management of stakeholder / 3rd party interfaces
Monthly progress reporting
Project dashboarding
Change control
Time chainage
Weekly programme updates
Resource & production output validation
Earned value management of labour and plant
Forensic analysis for EOT / programme thickening
How we made a difference
Plan Ahead provided resources with extensive light rail construction experience to deliver expert programme management and detailed 1st principles of construction planning.
Plan Ahead's extensive experience in this sector enabled the overall project programmes WBS/phasing to be effectively structured to support the construction phases. During the lifecycle of the projects, as construction phases changed due to impacts such as utilities, traffic management and stakeholder interfaces, the programme was simply re-sequenced instead of re-building the programme.