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Consultants advising on Dutch metro
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Glasgow consultants from Faithful and Gould advising on GBP 1billion Dutch metro contract
Two Glasgow management consultants from international construction consultants Faithful and Gould are part of a team advising on the GBP 1 billion construction of the North South Line project in Amsterdam Gordon Reid (see attached picture) and Mike Mackenzie are part of a 12-strong Faithful and Gould team providing independent advice on management, contract and financial issues
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 5 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Faithful and Gould won selection as independent consultant on the large-scale and ambitious infrastructure project ahead of five other firms.
Its role is to undertake a review of commercial and contractual management of the project.
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The project, known locally as the Noord-Zudlijn, will result in the construction of a completely new underground metro system.
It will run for a length of 9.5 kilometres and comprise four stations at a depth in excess of 25m and four shallower stations.
It will utilise ground breaking, state of the art tunnel boring and other technologies in construction to suit the particularly difficult ground conditions in Amsterdam and challenging site constraints.
Commissioned and funded jointly by the Dutch Government and Municipal Council of the City of Amsterdam, it will alleviate pressure on Amsterdam's tram and bus network which carries some 800, 000 inhabitants, workers and tourists each day.
When it opens in 2011, it will cut travel between the north and south of the city to 16 minutes.
Commenting on the scheme, Project Manager Gordon Reid, said: "This is a large scale and complex project, and on both a professional and personal level it is a very exciting one to be involved with".
"It is particularly interesting to see the similarities and contrasts in the way that the Dutch and the British do things and of course there is the language difference to work around too".
"The project is one of the largest that Faithful and Gould has worked on in Europe and demonstrates the company's capabilities as a leading international project and cost management consultancy." Faithful and Gould provides specialist, strategic services to clients in a number of areas including project finance, risk management and contract analysis.
It was selected in competition to undertake a review of the commercial and contractual management of this highly complex project.
Its successful selection was a result of a number of factors, most particularly the fact it has no direct commercial interest in the scheme, its impartiality to the internal politics, and because of its track record of achievement and diligence on other national and international large scale and complex projects.
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