This month The Engineers Collective welcomes two new faces into the hotseat. Claire Smith, the new editor of New Civil Engineer, gets together with the magazine’s news editor Rob Horgan to discuss the news of the month including HS2’s green light and what could happen to plans for smart motorways.

The pair are joined 9mins in by the chief executive of Crossrail, Mark Wild, to talk about the reasons behind Crossrail’s delayed delivery of the Elizabeth Line.

Mark addresses the complexities of delivering a mega project underneath the world’s most compelx city and talks about the immediate future of the project leading up to its much anticipated opening.

Our hosts quiz Mark on his background and how his experience managing projects in Australia has influenced his approach to managing Crossrail, and champion some of your questions.

The Engineers Collective is powered by Bentley Systems. The Skanska Costain STRABAG (SCS) JV brings together the combination of tried, tested, and successful partnerships and worldwide high-speed rail experience for phase 1 of High Speed 2 (HS2), the United Kingdom’s new high-speed rail network that will connect London in the south and Manchester and Leeds to the north. Bentley’s OpenRail solution is helping the digital advancement of SCS’s team in many areas including, the coordination of files and data with team members and stakeholders, clash resolution - crucial to the resolution of major interface areas long before they become an issue on-site, and through the direct use of engineering models for estimating purposes a halving of the time needed versus traditional methods and contributing to the teams work to meet carbon reduction targets on the project.