Mike Casebourne
Mike Casebourne BSc,CEng,FICE,FASCE Contractors Project Director
"Frederic joined the Balfour Beatty Carillion Joint Venture in June 2007 and for three years was the Testing & Commissioning Manager for the East London Line project; a £700m, 12km, new railway including major civils structures, a 22 berth depot, track and all the rail systems in one single contract. He was in charge of managing and coordinating a team of engineers to look after the handover process from completion of installation into testing of all track and railway systems, their certification and commissioning into use, including in particular the commissioning of the Traction power supply, the protection of people and equipment from the time it was made live, organizing the test running of trains and the protection of people during train running. Despite the challenges in setting to work the various interfaces between systems and sub-systems in a safe, progressive and reliable manner and the organisation of the running of test trains within a complex still incomplete infrastructure at the time, Frederic managed to get his team to comply with their obligations and proved to be a key manager in the successful delivery of the project in 2010."