Large ARCADIS-Hyder synergy win in United Kingdom for Crossrail 2 project

January 16, 2015 - ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the world's leading natural and built asset design & consultancy firm, today announced its involvement in the Crossrail 2 project. Crossrail 2 is a proposed new south-west to north-east rail line providing services between Hertfordshire and parts of Surrey and Middlesex via a new tunnel under Central London between Tottenham and Wimbledon. The Central Section of the scheme requires 36 km of new railway line, the majority in tunnel, 13 underground stations and two over ground stations. There will be major new connections to the existing rail networks National Rail and London Underground at Euston, Tottenham Court Road and Victoria. The estimated capital value of the scheme is £20bn.

Transport for London (TfL), under the Engineering and Project Management Framework, has awarded the contract for Package 1 - Technical/Engineering to Hyder Consulting (the subsidiary of ARCADIS), in association with ARCADIS Europe and EC Harris. The initial commission for Phase 1 is to develop the multi-disciplinary engineering feasibility and cost study to enable the selection of a preferred Crossrail 2 route to be taken to Public Consultation for a Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) application to the Department of Transport (DfT). This will enable TfL to progress the scheme to Phase 2 which involves a Statutory Consultation in 2016 and Phase 3 which will involve client and authority approvals by December 2017 followed by the detailed design and implementation phases with construction commencing in 2020. TfL has the option to extend the Phase 1 commission of ARCADIS and Hyder to include Phases 2 and 3.
For this first phase of the project ARCADIS with Hyder will be providing multi-disciplinary advisory services for tunnels, portals and route works, stations, systems and operational robustness and for cost and risk.

"We have won this competitively tendered project against a number of very capable teams, thanks to the combined engineering strength of Hyder and ARCADIS, coupled with the commercial advisory services offered by EC Harris," said Stephan Ritter, the Executive Board member of ARCADIS responsible for infrastructure. "We agreed to pursue this opportunity together and the fact that we won it fully underlines the significant capability and expertise of the combined firms."

For more information please contact Joost Slooten at +31 (0) 20 2011083, or outside office hours at +31 (0) 6 27061880 or joost.slooten@arcadis.com

About ARCADIS: ARCADIS is the leading global natural and built asset design & consultancy firm working in partnership with our clients to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes through the application of design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services. ARCADIS differentiates through its talented and passionate people and its unique combination of capabilities covering the whole asset life cycle, its deep market sector insights and its ability to integrate health & safety and sustainability into the design and delivery of solutions across the globe. We are 28,000 people that generate €3 billion in revenues. We support UN-Habitat with knowledge and expertise to improve the quality of life in rapidly growing cities around the world. Please visit: www.arcadis.com