Major project assurance

Governments and other stakeholders often wish to gain assurance that a large and complex system, like a new railway, meets appropriate requirements for issues such as safety, RAM, operability and performance. As well as Independent Safety Assessment (ISA) and statutory certification activities, there is a need for one body to take an overview of the whole system.

Governments and other stakeholders often wish to gain assurance that a large and complex system, like a new railway, meets appropriate requirements for issues such as safety, RAM, operability and performance. As well as Independent Safety Assessment (ISA) and statutory certification activities, there is a need for one body to take an overview of the whole system.

How we can help
• Our services can be tailored to your particular requirements using a range of independent assurance tools and specialist staff. We cover not just safety but performance, asset management and commercial aspects as well.
• Our work will involve an evaluation of the outputs of the project to ensure compliance with requirements. This may involve witnessing tests to demonstrate quality, function, safety and performance. It will also involve checking the output of each system lifecycle phase to make sure it fulfils requirements defined in client and project documents.

What are the benefits?
• Appointing us to review all the assurance work that has taken place on a complex project reduces both the safety and project risk and contributes to the delivery of the project on-time, to specification and within budget.
• Our approach ensures that issues can be identified early on and measures taken at an appropriate time. In most cases, this will be more efficient and beneficial to all parties in a project as it avoids identifying issues late on in a project and finding that costly and time-consuming rework is necessary to resolve them.

Recent projects
• Taiwan High Speed Railway - On behalf of the Government of Taiwan, we independently assured the suitability of the design, construction and operation of the new line built between Taipei and Koashung over a period of 6 years.
• Dubai Metro ISA - we are working with the Roads and Transport Authority of Dubai and their contractors to build a system-wide view of the safety of a complex fast-track metro project. Our core team in Dubai and domain experts are working across system and contract boundaries to establish confidence in the safety of the railway. We have gathered evidence from reviews of design and safety submissions, and audits of processes at design and manufacturing sites worldwide. When the railway is ready to open, the Roads and Transport Authority can be confident that it will be one of the safest in the world.