Metroselskabet awards Ramboll SYSTRA JV the assignment as transport system and operations consultant for M5
Facts about M5
- Metro line M5 is a new standalone metro line with up to 10 stations, built from either the south or north.
- The new M5 metro line will provide metro access to both existing urban areas and new neighbourhoods in the East Harbour. The southern solution can also help solve the capacity challenge of the current metro across the harbour.
- Metroselskabet has an ambition to reduce the climate impact of new metro lines, including the M5, by 50 per cent compared to previous lines. At the same time, there must be a focus on the customer experience, the metro's contribution to the city, including social sustainability, as well as safety and the working environment in both construction and operation.
About Ramboll
Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering and consultancy company founded in Denmark in 1945. Ramboll's more than 18,000 employees create sustainable solutions within construction, transport, water, environment, architecture and landscape, energy and management consultancy. Ramboll combines local experience with global knowledge around the world to create sustainable cities and communities. We combine our insights and ability to drive positive change and bring them to our clients as ideas that can be realised and implemented. We call it: Bright ideas. Sustainable change. Read more at ramboll.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
About SYSTRA
SYSTRA is one of the world's leading engineering and consulting companies specialising in mobility solutions. In Denmark, SYSTRA has designed, improved and modernised infrastructure for more than 50 years. SYSTRA Group has more than 10,000 consultants worldwide, and in Denmark we are around 350 project managers, consultants and specialists working to create, design and secure intelligent and sustainable infrastructure solutions that strengthen a well-functioning and dynamic society. Read more about us at systra.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
A joint venture consisting of consultants Ramboll and SYSTRA with Gottlieb Paludan Architects as sub-consultant will help Metroselskabet to further develop the basic design of the transport system and the control and maintenance centre on the M5. The assignment includes technical advice on requirements specification for trains, railway infrastructure and the technical subsystems and interfaces to the civil engineering part of the project. In addition, advice on the operation and maintenance of the metro will be provided. The consultant is thus helping to create the basis for a good passenger experience at the opening of the M5.
"We're excited to have the consultants on board the project and look forward to working closely together to develop the systems and operations for the future metro line in the capital. Ramboll SYSTRA JV's insight into the complexity of the task gives us great confidence that together we will be able to fulfil this important social task for the benefit of the metropolitan area", says Russell Saltmarsh, Project Director at Metroselskabet.
Ramboll and SYSTRA are also looking forward to the collaboration.
"It is a great pleasure for us to be involved in developing a transport system that is in such high demand among Danes as the metro. At the same time, Metroselskabet's ambitions to develop more sustainable transport solutions match very well with Ramboll's ambition to make a significant contribution to developing the sustainable transport of the future. We very much look forward to working together to connect the city with a mode of transport that is both reliable and even more sustainable than the existing metro lines," says Peter Aarkrog, Project Director at Ramboll.
"We are proud that SYSTRA, together with Ramboll and Gottlieb Paludan Architects as sub-consultants, have been chosen as consultants on the transport system for the new M5 line for Metroselskabet. SYSTRA has been involved in one out of two driverless metros in the world and on all metro lines in Denmark, so we are pleased to be able to contribute our expertise to the M5 transport system. Our project team has worked on iconic projects such as the Grand Paris Express, Dubai Metro and Toulouse Metro, and we look forward to bringing this experience into play to ensure another efficient, sustainable and future-proof transport system for Copenhagen," says Johan Stranddorf, Project Director at SYSTRA.
Pictured from left to right: Per Lindholm Larsen (Director, Rail, SYSTRA Denmark), Matias Sevel Rasmussen (TS/OM Manager M5, Metroselskabet), Johan Stranddorf (Project Director, SYSTRA Denmark), Torben Arnbjerg-Nielsen (Director, Rambøll Rail Systems), Rebekka Nymark (Director, Metroselskabet), Peter Aarkrog (Director, Consultancy, Ramboll), Eva Rindom Director, SYSTRA Denmark), Russell Saltmarsh (Project Director, Metroselskabet), Vibeke Jessen (Senior Legal/Procurement Manager, Metroselskabet) and Ulrik Wendelboe (Head of Procurement and Contract Management, Metroselskabet)