As the main HS2 terminus, Euston is being modernised to include the addition of ten new platforms, which will enable up to 18 trains an hour travelling north from London. Capacity at Euston will more than double, while freeing up space on the west coast mainline for more freight and local and long-distance services. The scheme also includes improvements to the urban realm and will integrate elements of the station with the surrounding communities.
As part of the project, Momentum is providing the following services:
- Detailed highway design: the services required – from inception to construction – to create, modify and regenerate public and private highway and urban realm infrastructure. This includes advising on phasing strategies and coordination with multiple design teams.
- Feasibility testing: assessing options to provide optimal arrangements during construction that are safe and efficient.
- Traffic management services: Liaising with local authorities and stakeholders to develop comprehensive and detailed traffic management plans. These plans facilitate strategic highway solutions to help reduce major disruptions in congested areas due to active construction sites, always addressing the necessary safety measures.
Derek Griffiths, director and engineering team lead at Momentum said: “The transformation of Euston is set to have many positive impacts, including the creation of new jobs and wider network improvements. We’re proud to be working with the Mace Dragados Joint Venture to help deliver this project.”
About Momentum
Momentum is a leading integrated, people-first transport consultancy. Founded in 2012 the company creates transport strategies and solutions that inform, integrate with and are integral to every aspect of the built environment today and for the future. Focusing on the emerging, universal and critical issues facing development Momentum works with clients to address the multi-faceted challenges of the industry and to create forward-looking solutions.
The company’s three core areas of specialism in planning, insight & analytics and engineering are bound together by a shared vision to improve the environments we live, work and play in. The company works in markets including commercial, cultural and heritage, education, major events, masterplanning, public realm, residential, retail and stadia and venues.
Momentum was the winner of the CIHT ‘Employer of the Year’ 2022 award, CIHT ‘Team of the Year’ 2021 award and is a signatory to the CIHT Diversity Charter.
Derek Griffiths is promoted to director and John Mulhaire is promoted to associate director.
Derek Griffiths joined Momentum in January 2016. He is a chartered civil engineer with a background spanning engineering and planning disciplines, the design and delivery of urban streets, public realm, traffic and sustainable transport projects, through to major highway design and construction phasing and traffic management support
John Mulhaire joined Momentum in November 2019. He is a qualified civil, structural and environmental engineer and has worked in the traffic engineering and transport planning industry for 14 years. Having worked in Australia, the United Kingdom and Ireland, John has acquired a broad knowledge base in the traffic and transport industry and has undertaken numerous projects for both private developers and government agencies, across a range of industry sectors.
Other promotions include:
Katie Housego is promoted to business operations co-ordinator
Barnaby Hill is promoted to senior consultant
Alex Ross is promoted to consultant
Alice Duperrey is promoted to consultant
Katie Lewin is promoted to consultant
Marie Feuvrier is promoted to consultant
Priyanka Sonawane is promoted to engineer
Two promotions in Momentum’s Canada business, based in Montreal, were also announced:
Kevin Larrivée is promoted to consultant
Paula Atuesta is promoted to consultant
About Momentum
Momentum is a leading integrated, people-first transport consultancy. Founded in 2012 the company creates transport strategies and solutions that inform, integrate with and are integral to every aspect of the built environment today and for the future. Focusing on the emerging, universal and critical issues facing development Momentum works with clients to address the multi-faceted challenges of the industry and to create forward-looking solutions.
The company’s three core areas of specialism in planning, insight & analytics and engineering are bound together by a shared vision to improve the environments we live, work and play in. The company works in markets including commercial, cultural and heritage, education, major events, masterplanning, public realm, residential, retail and stadia and venues.
Momentum was the winner of the CIHT ‘Team of the Year’ 2021 award, is shortlisted in the CIHT ‘Employer of the Year’ 2022 award and is a signatory to the CIHT Diversity Charter.
Bridge the Gap’s vision is to eradicate digital and educational poverty in Hackney to ensure that every family in need has the tools, education support and learning to help them bridge the digital poverty divide. The CIC aims to enable a network of parents to create change within their own local community, in turn inspiring other parents and families to be the change they want to see.
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About Momentum
Momentum is a leading integrated, people-first transport consultancy. Founded in 2012 the company creates transport strategies and solutions that inform, integrate with and are integral to every aspect of the built environment today and for the future. Focusing on the emerging, universal and critical issues facing development Momentum works with clients to address the multi-faceted challenges of the industry and to create forward-looking solutions.
The company’s three core areas of specialism in planning, insight & analytics and engineering are bound together by a shared vision to improve the environments we live, work and play in. The company works in markets including commercial, cultural and heritage, education, major events, masterplanning, public realm, residential, retail and stadia and venues.
Momentum was the winner of the CIHT ‘Team of the Year’ 2021 award.
Momentum Transport Consultancy, with offices in London and Edinburgh, has gained certification from Great Place to Work UK.
The company completed participation in Great Place to Work UK’s Certification™ process, which includes a benchmark study in the form of an employee survey (the Trust Index™) and a ‘culture brief’, which provides details about Momentum’s people programmes and practices.
Great Place to Work is the global authority on workplace culture, helping organisations to create exceptional, high-performing workplaces where employees feel trusted and valued. The organisation aims to improve recruitment, retention and productivity in companies around the world by putting employees at the heart of organisations, analysing what they think and feel and identifying issues that need to be addressed. Part of a global organisation, the Great Place to Work UK team applies data and insights from approximately 10,000 organisations across the world to benchmark individual performance and advise employers on how to continuously improve employee engagement and wellbeing.
Laura Davis, HR manager at Momentum said: “We’re really proud to have received certification from Great Place to Work. Not only does it underline the importance we place on nurturing a supportive and inclusive culture, the certification process has also provided us with important information so that we can develop our unique culture further.”
The certification builds on Momentum’s success of being named as the CIHT ‘Team of the Year’ in 2021, an award judged on how well companies demonstrate ‘professional’, ‘inclusive’, ‘collaborative’ and ‘progressive’ values.
About Momentum
Momentum is a leading integrated, people-first transport consultancy. Founded in 2012 the company creates transport strategies and solutions that inform, integrate with and are integral to every aspect of the built environment today and for the future. Focusing on the emerging, universal and critical issues facing development Momentum works with clients to address the multi-faceted challenges of the industry and to create forward-looking solutions.
The company’s three core areas of specialism in planning, insight & analytics and engineering are bound together by a shared vision to improve the environments we live, work and play in. The company works in markets including commercial, cultural and heritage, education, major events, masterplanning, public realm, residential, retail and stadia and venues.
Momentum was the winner of the CIHT ‘Team of the Year’ 2021 award.
The ISO 19650 standard is an international standard for managing information over the whole life cycle of a built asset using building information modelling (BIM). It contains all the same principles and high-level requirements as UK BIM Framework and is closely aligned with the current UK 1192 standards.
Roy McGowan, managing director at Momentum said: “BIM and digital transformation continue to grow across the built environment industry, and achieving BIM certification is a great achievement for Momentum, demonstrating our approach to continuous improvement.”
About Momentum
Momentum is a leading integrated, people-first transport consultancy. Founded in 2012 the company creates transport strategies and solutions that inform, integrate with and are integral to every aspect of the built environment today and for the future. Focusing on the emerging, universal and critical issues facing development Momentum works with clients to address the multi-faceted challenges of the industry and to create forward-looking solutions.
The company’s three core areas of specialism in planning, insight & analytics and engineering are bound together by a shared vision to improve the environments we live, work and play in. The company works in markets including commercial, cultural and heritage, education, major events, masterplanning, public realm, residential, retail and stadia and venues.
The membership acknowledges Momentum as providing recognised independent CPD accreditation compatible with global CPD principles.
Established in 1996, The CPD Certification Service is the largest and leading independent CPD accreditation organisation working across all industry sectors. The CPD Service’s recognised and authoritative CPD Member and CPD Certified symbols offer professional bodies, institutional associations, educational providers and consumers alike reassurance that the certified further learning materials achieve the qualitative standards required by all parties.
Laura Davis, HR manager at Momentum said: “Knowledge sharing and a focus on continual development is very much part of the Momentum culture. Every day our employees are learning and sharing their knowledge within the team, and we’re delighted to be recognised as a provider by The CPD Certification Service, so that we can share our thinking more widely in the transport industry.”
About Momentum
Momentum is a leading integrated, people-first transport consultancy. Founded in 2012 the company creates transport strategies and solutions that inform, integrate with and are integral to every aspect of the built environment today and for the future. Focusing on the emerging, universal and critical issues facing development Momentum works with clients to address the multi-faceted challenges of the industry and to create forward-looking solutions. The company’s three core areas of specialism in planning, insight & analytics and engineering are bound together by a shared vision to improve the environments we live, work and play in. The company works in markets including commercial, cultural and heritage, education, major events, masterplanning, public realm, residential, retail and stadia and venues.
Momentum was the winner of the CIHT ‘Team of the Year’ 2021 award and is a signatory to the CIHT Diversity Charter.
The new methodology will enable architects and designers to experience and feel designs from the user perspective, as part of a 3D environment – supporting them in creating designs which more effectively meet the needs of end users.
VR technology allows the designed environment to be experienced through an external avatar, being part of the environment, or one of the participants of the pedestrian simulation, and experience the design or the space through the simulated entities.
Specific pedestrian and people movement challenges supported by the methodology include:
Signage and wayfinding: identifying suitable locations for signs and assessing their visibility from the eye level of users in an operational environment.
Queue management: better understanding queues, evaluating queue design and assessing the queue management process.
Space utilisation and level of service: an enhanced understanding of service level standards experienced within sites during normal and emergency situations.
Kabil Kaliyamoorthi, associate director at Momentum Transport Consultancy said: “The new methodology that we have created with Mima provides architects and clients with a truly holistic view of their design and – crucially – a feel for how it will be used from multiple perspectives.
“Put simply it allows architects and designers to test their designs within a pedestrian simulation from the point of view of users, and to make design changes which suit the space utilisation pattern and level of service preferences. We anticipate the methodology will be used across multiple designs, sectors and developments, for example to experience major events and large crowds from the point of view of an event day steward who may need to manage crowd flow. By placing your viewpoint in several locations it is possible to optimise the positioning of your operating, security, commercial and event day teams to ensure maximum visibility and tactical locations; allowing them to effectively respond to crowding issues, safety concerns, wayfinding and emergency scenarios.
Phil Nutley, Head of Experience Design at Mima said: “The ability to be able to make technology more accessible and more human is fundamental in co-creating new experiences. By immersing a broader range of people in these technologies, with the industry knowledge and expertise, we can challenge the approach to the design and delivery of services and experiences, across many sectors.”
About Momentum
Momentum is a leading integrated, people-first transport consultancy. Founded in 2012 the company creates transport strategies and solutions that inform, integrate with and are integral to every aspect of the built environment today and for the future. Focusing on the emerging, universal and critical issues facing development Momentum works with clients to address the multi-faceted challenges of the industry and to create forward-looking solutions.
The company’s three core areas of specialism in planning, insight & analytics and engineering are bound together by a shared vision to improve the environments we live, work and play in. The company works in markets including commercial, cultural and heritage, education, major events, masterplanning, public realm, residential, retail and stadia and venues.
Momentum was the winner of the CIHT ‘Team of the Year’ 2021 award.
About Mima
Mima is a human-centred design agency with over 40 years of experience within the fields of human factors, human behavior and user-centred design. We deliver end-to-end experiences across digital and physical products and spaces. Our knowledge and experience is cross-sector from transport and travel, cultural and heritage, hospitality, wellbeing and healthcare. We enjoy the parallels between all of these areas.
The highways advice lot is one of four lots in the county’s new professional services framework, which covers a range of new build, refurbishment and conservation projects. It includes the provision of general highways advice, transport statements, transport assessments, traffic studies, preparation of school travel plans and highways design in conjunction with developments promoted by the Council.
Jon Noble, associate director at Momentum, said: “We’re delighted to be appointed to Hertfordshire’s new framework, following our appointment to TfL’s framework earlier in the year. We’re looking forward to working closely with Hertfordshire County Council, as well as its district councils, authorities and schools, to support the delivery of construction projects across the county.”
About Momentum
Momentum is a leading integrated, people-first transport consultancy. Founded in 2012 the company creates transport strategies and solutions that inform, integrate with and are integral to every aspect of the built environment today and for the future. Focusing on the emerging, universal and critical issues facing development Momentum works with clients to address the multi-faceted challenges of the industry and to create forward-looking solutions.
The company’s three core areas of specialism in planning, insight & analytics and engineering are bound together by a shared vision to improve the environments we live, work and play in. The company works in markets including commercial, cultural and heritage, education, major events, masterplanning, public realm, residential, retail and stadia and venues.
Momentum was the winner of the CIHT ‘Team of the Year’ 2021 award.
Now in its third year, the summit once again returns digitally to bring together civic leaders, property developers, financiers, community organisers, architects and transport planners from around the world to assess and celebrate global progress towards more equitable, zero emissions pedestrian-priority cities.
David Hart, director at Momentum will be speaking as a panelist during the summit.
About Momentum
Momentum is a leading integrated, people-first transport consultancy. Founded in 2012 the company creates transport strategies and solutions that inform, integrate with and are integral to every aspect of the built environment today and for the future. Focusing on the emerging, universal and critical issues facing development Momentum works with clients to address the multi-faceted challenges of the industry and to create forward-looking solutions. The company’s three core areas of specialism in planning, insight & analytics and engineering are bound together by a shared vision to improve the environments we live, work and play in. The company works in markets including commercial, cultural and heritage, education, major events, masterplanning, public realm, residential, retail and stadia and venues.
Momentum was the winner of the CIHT ‘Team of the Year’ 2021 award.
This award is aimed at celebrating the achievements of teams who have been able to adapt and work effectively under the challenges posed during COVID-19 in the Highways and Transportation sector. Entries to the award are welcome from the public, third, private and education sector and also from teams working across different organisations.
The award is judged on how well entries demonstrate the CIHT values of ‘professional’, ‘inclusive’, ‘collaborative’ and ‘progressive’.
Sarah Pryor, head of marketing at Momentum said: “We couldn’t be more thrilled to win the Team of the Year award. This year has been a difficult one for so many people, and hearing such inspirational transport stories at the awards ceremony today – and then to have won our category – is a fantastic show of appreciation for the hard work of every member of our team.
“From hitting revised (Covid) business targets and helping clients succeed in their projects, to authoring research reports, winning awards, welcoming new people, closer collaboration between offices and looking after everyone’s wellbeing – we believe that ‘Team Momentum’ has really shown what successful teams can achieve together. Yet a defining Momentum moment in mid-2020, prompted by the killing of George Floyd, truly underlined for us what it means to be part of an inclusive, collaborative and progressive team. And how emotion and passion can have such an impact on how teams can excel in the professional world.”
About Momentum
Momentum is a leading integrated, people-first transport consultancy. Founded in 2012 the company creates transport strategies and solutions that inform, integrate with and are integral to every aspect of the built environment today and for the future. Focusing on the emerging, universal and critical issues facing development Momentum works with clients to address the multi-faceted challenges of the industry and to create forward-looking solutions. The company’s three core areas of specialism in planning, insight & analytics and engineering are bound together by a shared vision to improve the environments we live, work and play in. The company works in markets including commercial, cultural and heritage, education, major events, masterplanning, public realm, residential, retail and stadia and venues.