2008 – July – Tapsall – Change in Mindset to Promote Better Delivery

Robert Tapsall, Construction Manager Trackstar Alliance, MIRSE With great vision, QR embarked on their first Program Alliance to gain long term support and commitment from the rail industry suppliers in order to ensure delivery of their Capital Works program would be achieved. This paper will briefly describe the Alliance framework, development of Alliance culture and the benefits of the Alliance delivery model which the Trackstar Alliance has successfully implemented to date. In an environment of innovation and creation of best value, Trackstar has been instrumental in bringing about savings to QR in scheme design and implementation of new techniques with a reduced drain on QR's key resources. This paper will describe some of these innovations with a particular focus on signalling and the role signalling engineers can take in delivering better outcomes.