scope:

This guidance applies to the application of the following generic requirements for LU owned civil engineering assets:

a) Competence

b) Technical approval, processes and assurance

c) Design of service fixings and connections for new structures

d) Ground investigations

e) Management of sub-standard assets

f) Ground movement impact on railway and adjacent structures

g) Use of tall plant on or near the railway

h) Use of temporary works, scaffolding and hoardings near the railway

i) Piling and similar processes

j) Adjacent structures

k) Asset and structure identification

l) Condition assessment and certification

m) Structural materials

n) Cutting, grinding, drilling, fixing to and supporting from existing structures and inspection access

o) Decommissioning, demolition and site clearance

p) Access covers

q) Service crossings

r) Evidence of compliance

s) Risk

Purpose

The purpose of this guidance is to support and give guidance on London Underground (LU) standard S1050 "Civil Engineering - Common Requirements" .