Etihad Rail O&M Facility

Cundall was appointed by a Vinciled joint venture with responsibility as Lead Consultant for the full multidisciplinary project design including geotechnical, civil, highways and drainage, trackworks, structural, architectural, MEP, fire engineering, systems assurance, requirements management, BIM and specialist design disciplines.

Our highways team designed 4.2 km of roads and carriageways plus separate pedestrian footways for all movements between buildings on appropriate desire lines.

The design returned to first principles pavement analysis and design, incorporating UK DMRB, AASHTO and Abu Dhabi Design Manuals and developing specialist calculations to accommodate the traffic flows and ground conditions.

One of the challenges was designing and hosting collaborative information for cloud delivery, utilising BIM 360, and undertaking clash detection.