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Launch of Project SPEED challenges rail industry to cut time and costs of rail upgrades

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In a keynote speech at Project SPEED conference, Rail Minister invites rail industry to pioneer faster, smarter and more efficient infrastructure projects.

  • Rail Minister officially unveils the rail Project SPEED approach, focused on halving the time and significantly reducing costs of delivering rail infrastructure projects
  • innovative ways of working and simplification of processes to be rolled out across all rail upgrades
  • new approach builds on the Prime Minister’s new taskforce, announced last June, to complete public investment projects more rapidly and at lower cost

    • The government has challenged the rail industry today (26 February 2021) to pioneer new ways of working that will halve the time and reduce the cost of delivering critical infrastructure projects, as the country builds back better out of coronavirus (COVID-19), with the launch of the next stage of rail Project SPEED.

    In a keynote speech at the Project SPEED conference today, hosted by the Rail Industry Association, Rail Minister Chis Heaton-Harris invited the 1,800-strong virtual audience to get on board with the new approach to become faster, smarter and more efficient in the way that projects are delivered.

    Rail Project SPEED (Swift, Pragmatic and Efficient Enhancement Delivery) was jointly developed by the Department for Transport (DfT) and Network Rail last summer. Infrastructure projects at different stages of development have been reviewed to identify how government funding could go further and work could be carried out faster.

    This approach identified 10 key themes to lower costs and speed up the delivery of infrastructure schemes, such as rapidly increasing the use of innovative construction methods and removing complexity from planning processes.

    These new and innovative ways of working will be rolled out across all rail upgrades, with the intention of:

  • ensuring passengers experience better journeys more quickly
  • transforming the pace and way in which our railways are improved

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