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Melbourne Airport Rail is a once-in-a-generation transformation of Victoria’s transport network connecting Melbourne Airport to Victoria’s regional and metropolitan train network for the first time.
The project aims to connect people from across Australia and the world to Victoria, revealing local businesses to new markets for trade and tourism.
Melbourne Airport Rail will travel through the Metro Tunnel into the heart of the CBD before continuing onto the Sunshine to Dandenong Line and will:
Scope is split across several packages and includes multidisciplinary infrastructure engineering items such as civil, structural, building, railway, track, signalling, train control, overhead electrification, CSR, platform, station upgrades, rolling stock upgrades, etc.
Our Role in the Project
Our role in this significant program of works includes being the main lead for V/Line, as our key T&S member leads the entire development portfolio as V/Line Program Director. He also represents V/Line under the Projects Agreement with RPV, and liaises with key stakeholders in RPV, DOT, MTM, LXRP.
This means he also supports key governance committees such as Project Steering Committee, Network Development Reference Group, etc. He is also responsible from a V/Line perspective for managing the development investment logic and sequencing, strategic need, capacity constraints, operational modelling analysis and interface management with other concurrent projects and initiatives.
Work also included development of Operational Requirements / client Requirement Documents (CRD) Concept design development / review, communicating standards baselines to stakeholders, risk assessments, risk analysis (both construction and operations / maintenance), and proactively managing key stakeholders in consultation sessions (both V/Line internal and external agencies).
Our T&S member was the TOC lead for V/Line in the Procurement phase, including developing / reviewing Request For Proposal (RFP) documentation, Project Scope and Technical Requirements (PS&TR), commercial negotiations with RPV and development of Project Alliance Agreement (PAA), estimating of V/Line scope split deliverables which includes both CAPEX and OPEX and whole-of-life estimating, program and schedule review, construction staging analysis and value engineering with aim to minimise disruptions and driver training, development of risk allowance, as well as V/Line lead in interactive phase with tendering parties.
Transport & Strategy are an advisory practice offering services in the management of complex infrastructure projects. We work in transport, rail infrastructure, construction, and telecommunications sectors across Victoria.
We pride ourselves on having a flat structure focused on collaboration, teamwork, and communication with no major tiers or hierarchy. We are a small but robust team, independent enough to effortlessly pivot when required.
20/574 Plummer Street,
Port Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia 3207
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