About AI-led forecasting and risk management on the Transpennine Route Upgrade
The £10.7bn Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is one of the biggest and most ambitious rail upgrade projects undertaken in the UK in recent decades. Works are taking place along a 122km line which stretches from Manchester to York, serving 23 stations and traversing 29 level crossings, 9.65km of tunnels, and 285 bridges and tunnels along the way.
While the project still has several years to run, it has already been feted for delivering works sequentially, with minimal disruption to passengers, and for its groundbreaking approach to risk and forecasting - an approach developed with–and enabled by–nPlan’s technology.
We recently released a detailed case study showcasing our work with TRU, which generated a huge amount of interest - and many requests for further information on how the project team approaches risk and uses nPlan’s technology to do it. As a result, we’re hosting a unique online event featuring members of the TRU project team at 3:30 PM GMT / 11:30 AM EDT on the 31st of October - and we’d love you to join us 🎉
The webinar will be hosted by nPlan CEO Dev Amratia and he’ll be joined by Richard Palczynski, formerly Programme Controls Director and now Chief of Staff at TRU, to discuss how nPlan has helped TRU:
- Prepare for track possessions
- Carry out more frequent, more high fidelity risk assurance
- Prepare and defend business cases
- Empower its wider alliance
And much more!
Dev will also be joined by Mike Ellis, PMO Head of Risk at TRU, who will demonstrate how (and why) TRU has incorporated nPlan Insights Pro into its workflows, making this webinar a ‘show and tell’ event!
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear from project professionals at the heart of a rail programme The Times recently described as “a rare success story, which could restore confidence in our ability to deliver big projects”.
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Online event (webinar). Scroll down for the registration link!
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Meet the speakers
Dev Amratia
Dev worked at Shell for 9 years as a Project Manager on Flagship Capital Projects, generating a wealth of technical and commercial experience across a variety of strategic projects in the Energy Industry. Author of the UK Government AI Review (2017) alongside Prof. Dame Wendy Hall and Jerome Pesenti. Dev holds an MEng in Aerospace Engineering, and CEng (CharteredEngineer) from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.
Richard Palczynski
Richard Palczynski BEng (Hons) CEng FICE FAPM is a chartered civil engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and Fellow of the Association for Project Management (APM) as well as the Guild of Project Controls. He has extensive major programme experience on infrastructure projects, including the Jubilee Line Extension, Channel Tunnel Rail Link (HS1), West Coast Route Modernisation Programme, Crossrail and now the Transpennine Route Upgrade Programme in the North of England. With 26 years working for Bechtel, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Balfour Beatty, Mace, Crossrail and now Arcadis, he has a diverse portfolio from design and construction management, commercial and project management to six sigma, project and programme controls.
Mike Ellis
Mike is an experienced manager, consultant and capability leader in the built asset environment, working with major clients to successfully deliver programme and project outcomes. Mike specialises in the development and delivery of effective strategies to support a culture of risk and value management and the deployment of tools and statistical techniques to improve certainty of outcomes on live mega projects and programmes.
