Portfolio Crossrail

Crossrail is the new high frequency, metro railway for London and the South East.

The Client

From 2018 Crossrail will travel from Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east via new twin tunnels under central London.

Project Requirements

In 2009 Studio 24 was appointed by Crossrail as their sole supplier of website services, for a period of three years.

The initial phase of work required Studio 24 to support the existing corporate website powered by a third party content management system (CMS).  This phase of the project involved fixing a range of system bugs, enhancing site functionality and developing a strategy for the future of the website as Crossrail moved further into construction.

Given limitations with the third party CMS and the required expansion of the site, it was decided that the site architecture be redeveloped on a new more stable CMS platform.

Solution Delivered

Studio 24 undertook a detailed design architecture phase. The new website is powered by the Studio 24 CMS and provides the client with access and the ability to update all parts of the site internally. 

The CMS also allows the client to maintain multiple websites, a necessity once a second, educational website was built for Crossrail.

Other bespoke pieces of functionality were also developed including a postcode search tool (‘Near You’) that allows users to find out what construction works are happening in their area which is important as construction intensifies.

The website is hosted on a robust hosting environment supplied by our hosting partner Rackspace. 

http://www.crossrail.co.uk