Cross River Rail Project

Cross River Rail Project

Rail

Cross River Rail Project

Client: Department of Transport and Main Roads (DTMR), Queensland
Location: Brisbane
Budget: $8billion
Roles/Services: Strategic advisory services, Procurement advisor, Project management services

The Cross River Rail Project was a proposed $5B, 18-kilometre north-south rail line from Salisbury to Bowen Hills through Brisbane's CBD, with additional railway tracks and stations for passenger and freight train services.  The project was stopped due to funding re-direction for state wide flood impact management.  The key features were:

  • a 9.8km tunnel from Yeerongpilly to Victoria Park

  • new underground stations at Boggo Road, 'Gabba', Albert Street and Roma Street

  • two new surface stations and two station upgrades

  • extensive surface track works, expansion of rail yards and a major rail viaduct.

InfraSol Group provided advisory services to the Project Sponsors in DTMR to establish the project team for the environmental impact assessment, development of the business case and strategic procurement plan for a 30km Inner City Rail network upgrade, which later became Cross River Rail.

We led the engagement with the proposed operator (Queensland Rail) with respect to the rail safety and other operational requirements and interface issues. we also reviewed the procurement strategy and identified key issues and risks in relation to the proposed procurement strategy
Prepared a Strategic Procurement Plan for the underground tunnels, rail stations, surface works and rail systems including power, signaling and communications. The plan considered a PPP component for stations, competitive alliances and other forms of contract

Investigated land value capture potential for property development associated with stations in the PPP contract

Managed specialist planning, economic, property, rail modelling and cost consultants for the preparation of the business case to Infrastructure Australia requirements.

Reviewed the construction staging to identify ways to make the project more affordable
Finally, InfraSol managed a team of technical and engineering consultants to develop the tender documentation framework for the procurement phase. The documentation included operational and functional requirements, technical specifications including fire and life safety

We were also responsible for establishing and managing the project controls and reporting system including cost management, programming and reporting to support the preparation of the Reference Design, EIS, Procurement Strategy, Business Case development and approval.
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Key Outcomes

Business case was assessed by infrastructure Australia as ‘ready for investment’ – best project of the year (documentation)