Technical Challenge Panel

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08/12/2009

The Technical Expert Panel will advise and scrutinise HS2’s engineering, operations and environmental impact work plan. In particular it looks at specific issues relating to the railway systems being considered, the interaction with the existing rail network and the relationship of environment and planning with engineering.

Expert Panel Members:

• Ted Allett – Formerly Planning Director of Union Railways and expert on route development, planning and environmental assessment
• Mike Ash CBE, MRTPI – Formerly Chief Planner at the Department for Communities and Local Government
• Keith Berryman – Engineering Advisor to Crossrail
• Clive Burrows FREng – Director of Engineering, First Group
• Prof Andy Collop – Head of Civil Engineering Dept at Nottingham University
• Alan Dyke – Former Chief Engineer and Managing Director of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Project (HS1), now an Independent Consultant
• Prof Robert Mair FREng FRS – Cambridge University
• Hugh Norrie OBE FREng – Government’s Agent for Channel Tunnel Rail Link
• Prof Roderick Smith FREng – Chair of Future Rail Studies at Imperial College, London and Vice President of the IMechE

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