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Crossrail Liverpool Street Station CUSTOMER Cross Rail/Laing O’Rourke SECTOR Rail Crossrail Liverpool Street Station Station Information & Surveillance Systems (SISS) and Building Management System CASE STUDY Crossrail Liverpool Street Station - SISS Nestled in one of the City’s leading financial centres, “The complexity of the surrounded by a continually evolving dense urban landscape, works at Crossrail’s the design for Liverpool Street station makes the most of what Liverpool Street station little space is available to build a massive piece of should not be underestimated. The team infrastructure. from L.B. Foster Telecoms Stretching from Moorgate in the west to Broadgate in the east, the Elizabeth used its considerable line ticket halls are connected by two mined platforms. Fully accessible ticket experience and expertise of halls provide direct interchange with the Northern, Central, Metropolitan, Circle working on similarly and Hammersmith & City lines, as well as National Rail services to Stansted and challenging installations to Southend airports. deliver the station’s new SISS and BMS, tacking every L.B. Foster Telecoms fulfilled an essential role as a main supplier to Laing part of the project with total O’Rourke, carrying out Station Information & Surveillance Systems (SISS) and professionalism and Building Management System works at Crossrail’s Liverpool Street station. massive enthusiasm.” L.B. Foster have routinely picked up on scope gap, and been asked to deliver Company representative these added works in addition to our contracted works: Laing O’Rourke +44 (0) 1992 622385 [email protected] lbfoster.eu 2 CASE STUDY Crossrail Liverpool Street Station - SISS Requirement Laing O’Rourke is a privately owned, Foster Telecoms, on behalf of principal internationally focussed engineering contractor Laing O’Rourke, was selected to enterprise with world-class capabilities install the Station Information & Surveillance spanning the entire client value chain. L.B. System (SISS) and BMS at the new Crossrail Liverpool Street station. Specification Installation of SISS including: > SCADA > Public Address Voice Alarm (PAVA) > Radio: > CCTV > Trackside > London Underground Limited > Telephony/PHP > Mobile phone > Customer Information Systems (CIS) > Driver Only Operated (DOO) > Telephony > Optical Fibre Network (OFN) Project Scope / Solution Overview Public Address (PA) Customer Information Systems (CIS) L.B. Foster Telecoms completed the We installed CIS at Liverpool Street Station installation of PA/VA equipment throughout showing Service Information Display (SID) in the public and non-public areas of Liverpool public areas including: Street Station. > Broadgate Ticket Hall CCTV > Moorgate Ticket Hall The CCTV system acts as a deterrent against > Ticket Hall levels. crime and vandalism, whilst providing real time video images to use for the purposes of SCADA/Cabinets security, operations and public reassurance. We installed contacts/serial/fibre optic patch panel/ copper patch panel to systems The primary operation and management of including but not limited to: the CCTV system is provided through the integration to the SMS and CMS Systems. We > UPS systems installed the CCTV system equipment including: > Tunnel Lights > Platform Screen Doors (PSDs) > CCTV video cameras > Overhead Line Equipment (OHLE) > Video encoders (to encode analogue > High Voltage Equipment images from lift cameras, and DOO cameras) > Non traction power > Public view monitors (with integral > Low voltage equipment decoders) at the Gateline’s. > Tunnel Drainage > Network Video Recorders and Storage > BMS Arrays (located in CERs) > Pumps > Video Management System. > Fire Panel > DOO In addition, we also supplied and installed CIS systems and a complete IP telephony > Temperature monitoring system. CCTV equipment is installed > Monitored Doors throughout the public and non public areas > Lifts of Liverpool Street Station.# > Escalators > Switchable Signage. +44 (0) 1992 622385 [email protected] lbfoster.eu 3 CASE STUDY Crossrail Liverpool Street Station - SISS Project Scope / Solution Overview cont. Telephony/PHP Driver Only Operated (DOO) The new Telephony System is the collective Our team completed the installation of the name covering passenger help points, refuge the DOO to provide pictures from platform- help point, ruggedized and standard based analogue cameras installed along the telephone devices. These are delivered as platform edge. These are then transmitted part of the Communication and Control to the train via a DOO Leaky Feeder cable System contract throughout the Crossrail transmission system. Central Operation Section. The video input feeds from cameras Radio monitoring the platform-train interface (PTI) The PMR-RI system is the common are connected to the DOO cabinet. arrangement for the propagation of PMR Processing equipment located in the DOO (GSM-R, LFEPA, ALU and LU Connect) and cabinets crop, scale and combine the video the PCR/ESN (GSM900/1800, UMTS2100, feeds into two video channels, which are LTE800/1800/2600) signals across then transmitted via the DOO Leaky Feeder Liverpool Street station. transmission system to the train allowing the train driver a continuous view of the entire Coverage from GSM-R, ALU, LU Connect, PTI. LFEPA and Mobile Network OFN (Optical Fibre Network) Operator/Emergency Service Network base The Optical Fibre Network is a Dark Fibre stations (BTS) and fibre repeaters utilise the system that provides transparent fibre optic Private Mobile Radio Radiating Infrastructure communications between the locations (PMR-RI) for a RF over Fibre (RFoF) within the Crossrail Central Section. The use distribution. At Liverpool Street Station there of splice boxes and patch panels gives the are two PMR-RI infrastructures. The GSM-R end users a fully transparent point to point and PCR system have a dedicated PMR-RI link between the end points. infrastructure. The second PMR-RI infrastructure extends the LU Connect Radio The only exception to this is the link from Services (Connect, ALU & LFEPA) from the LU Pudding Mill Lane to the Route Control area of Liverpool Street Station. Centre (RCC) at Romford which makes use of the Network Rail fibre. Due to the limited The RFoF is a common network consisting of number of fibre cores available, the use of fibre-optic primary distribution fromoptical Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing (CWDM) master units to fibre repeaters located in technologies is necessary to provide CER 1 and CER 2. From the fibre repeaters a sufficient links to the RCC. coaxial Distributed Antenna System (DAS) is utilised for the transmission of signals The OFN covers all Public and Back of House throughout Liverpool Street Station. areas within the Crossrail Liverpool Street station across the following levels: LU Connect Overview Liverpool Street is a LU Interchange Station; > Moorgate Shaft – Level +1 part of the overall PMR-RI design criteria is > Moorgate Shaft – Street Level to provide LU Connect with a dedicated > Moorgate Shaft – Level -1 to -6 PMR-RI throughout Liverpool Street Station. > Broadgate Basement – Level -2 The solution delivers ALU, LU Connect Radio and LFEPA with the signal source supplied by > Bloomfield Box – Level +1 LU Connect via a LU Connect RFoF > Bloomfield Box – Street Level infrastructure to the agreed demarcation. > Bloomfield Box – Level -1 to -6 The agreed demarcation point is defined as the common port side of the diplexer which L.B.Foster Telecoms completed this is connected to the output of the LU Connect installation supplied Repeaters within CER1 & CER2. The common port of the diplexer is then connected to the dedicated PMR-RI. The LU Connect services dedicated PMR-RI replicate the Crossrail PMR-RI design with respect to fibre repeater, passive components and antenna locations. L.B, Foster Telecoms completed this installation. +44 (0) 1992 622385 [email protected] lbfoster.eu 4 CASE STUDY Crossrail Liverpool Street Station - SISS Our Solution A comprehensive design review was All off-site installation and test procedures undertaken, checking the project are agreed with Clients at least two weeks documentation for accuracy, prior to the inspection invitation. Clients are constructability, and completeness. During invited for all applicable factory acceptance the design review and throughout the tests. On successful completion of FATs, the project, we actively sought opportunities to system/assets/equipment have been value engineer elements of the project and shipped on site with Client’s consent. FAT to highlight and raise these through the reports/ITP deliverables are produced and appropriate channels. handed over to the Clients as part of project deliverables. Our project management team engaged with Laing O’Rourke to ensure that the During the construction phase, all approved correct processes were implemented design drawings, specifications, schedules, throughout the project. We managed the schematics were provided to the project efficiently through the whole project construction team and regularly updated as life cycle, from mobilising the project and when received by the Principal Designer/ management team, through construction, to Designer. Any changes during the the testing phases to handover to the client. construction /testing/commissioning phases are captured on red line drawings and/or on Efficient project delivery relies on non-conformance reports (NCR) or on any maintaining the systems in place to manage project agreed format. We carry out Internal the project delivery process.
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