The presentation will provide an overview of the results of the recent value engineering review of the West Transitway expansion project in Ottawa. An exclusive transit corridor for Bus Rapid Transit (convertible to Light Rail) to be constructed thru an established urban environment. The project value has been estimated at $140 million. This VE review assessed the staging of the extension of the transitway system and the previous EA recommendations that included a tunnelled section of transitway.
Programme: VE enabling new directions in the West Transitway Tunnel Ottawa
The Edmonton North LRT is a $755 million, 3.3 km extension of Edmonton's current 21-km LRT system, involving tunnelling, street-level construction, and three new LRT stations. It is projected to add 13,200 weekday riders to the current 92,000 weekday ridership.ffordable, accessible, and environmentally friendly. During the detailed design phase for the North LRT, two major value engineering and risk analysis workshops were conducted. The first value engineering workshop was conducted at the start of the detailed design stage to confirm the preliminary design and search for new creative ideas, and the second workshop was conducted for the LRT track to select the highest value option.
This presentation showcases the benefits gained in applying the value engineering methodology. The workshop job plan, major findings, risk analysis and the current status of the project were discussed.
In conjunction with Metrolinx and funded by the Province of Ontario, the Toronto Transit Commission is embarking on the Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown Project, a 25 km rapid transit expansion through the centre of Toronto. With a budget of over $8B, the line will run underground for 19 km from approximately Black Creek Drive to Kennedy Station, and then on the existing SRT alignment for an additional 6 km of combined at grade/elevated right of way. The Crosstown will include up to 26 stations, with three connections to the subway. Passengers will ride in new Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs), which will operate in 3 car consists. Two maintenance and storage facilities will also be provided to store and maintain the new fleet.
The presentation shows how value engineering will be employed in effort to deliver a safe, reliable product, at the lowest cost.
Transit agencies often utilize value studies in the implementation of major new capital construction projects. Value enhancement reviews of transit projects typically focus on aligning scope expectations, resolving technical concerns, lowering implementation costs, or accelerating construction schedules. The projects are typically very large, very expensive, very complex, and very controversial. The value studies often identify great opportunities to improve the design and simplify construction.
There is also an opportunity to use value reviews when rehabilitating and/or re-imagining existing transit infrastructure, such as stations. Stations may need repairs or maintenance work. Stations may need upgrading to conform to new standards or legislation. Stations may just require a needed makeover. Yet, many agencies, even those with a track record using value enhancement, overlook the opportunity to use VE for the smaller projects?like stations. They are missing out on the chance to use the value enhancement process to reinvigorate the transit user?s experience. Can VE help? Absolutely!
Stations are complex. Not just because of the structural components to create large open spaces, the architectural aspirations, or the building systems needed to operate them. Customers?dealing with customers during construction overly complicates the work more than anything. Design and staging choices are influenced by anticipated or real customer needs. In addition, corporate rebranding, technological advances, or changes in accessibility can drive some station projects. Value reviews on these smaller projects can immensely contribute to the success of the station project by looking through the customer lens.
This presentation highlights projects undertaken by several transit properties across North America and discusses how the innovative use of VE helped to refine new and existing station concepts to improve the experience of the transit user.
The use of the VA Methodology led the multidisciplinary team of the LRT Pie-IX construction project, in Montreal, to review the prototype of the entrance building provided for in the project. The main challenge of this project is the large number of stakeholders with different interests and fields of expertise. First, the use of a functional model allowed the multidisciplinary team to see the project in a different way and to define in simple and concise language the objectives and needs to be met. This approach, which favored creativity, made it possible to separate essential needs from wishes or desires.
The rigorous application of the method made it possible to question several of the needs of the project. It was at the heart of the discussions of the multidisciplinary team and made it possible to identify alternatives and avenues of savings totaling nearly 30% of the direct costs, of the thirty entrance buildings still to be built on the project for the Montreal portion of SRB Pie-IX.
The presentation explains the value analysis methodology, how it is done and when it can be used to identify alternatives in a project. The LRT Pie-IX project results give a good example of the power of the methodology.
Sound Transit is the transit agency overseeing the expansion of the transit systems, light rail and trains, in the Puget Sound region, including Seattle. VE studies are being conducted during the early planning stages of their projects including review of options for alignment and station locations. This presentation will discuss how this was applied to a couple of Sound Transit’s projects prior to finalizing the environmental document and evaluating project options. The discussion includes some of the benefits and challenges of doing VE early in the life of a project and lessons learned.
This presentation provides a brief overview of the Toronto light rail program and then explores the ways and means of delivering value and quality in linear Alternative Delivery projects. We will compare and contrast the traditional Design Bid Build model with Infrastructure Ontario’s Design Build Finance Maintain model in the context of driving value and quality through preliminary design, in-market, final design, construction and maintenance. We will then go on to examine how value and quality are being incented in two projects currently underway: Eglinton Crosstown LRT and the Ottawa Confederation Line.