Crossrail’s Technical Papers Competition

Summary

On a project the size and complexity of Crossrail there is much interest from professionals from all industries in learning how such a project implements new and innovative processes and different ways of working. To this end it was expected that employees and contractors would be requesting to deliver papers and journal articles on specific topics for wider industry use. To manage and encourage that process Crossrail devised the ‘Technical Papers Competition’.

This paper outlines how the competition was devised and implemented and what lessons were learned along the way. It has proved to be popular with employees and would be of interest to any large project looking to harness the key learning from the projects they are undertaking.