CEFA is a National Framework led by Network Rail to capture
condition data for its Civil Engineering assets including buildings.
- Network Rail
The framework is split into geographical areas and different groups of structures.
Frankham currently has the contract for all station and operational property assets in the Southern region throughout Kent, Sussex and Wessex, including all the associated London assets under each route.
The aim of the framework is to act as the eyes and ears of the client regarding the condition and safety of their assets. This includes station buildings, M&E assets, car parks, lineside buildings, depots and other sites in the portfolio of the relevant route asset manager. The objectives are to ensure the safety of the assets and also understand the condition to react and plan interventions such as safety measures, maintenance, and renewals.
We provide technical engineering advice and have done for many years.
When the opportunity came along to assist the client with the examination framework they were very keen on us bidding and encouraged us to do so. We also provide design work that comes out of these inspections i.e. we provide an end to end service from the inspection, repair, maintenance, assessment, monitoring, upgrading and strengthening and replacement designs for their assets. A trusted safe pair of hands that they can rely on throughout the lifecycle.
The real benefit is since we know their assets inside out, we can provide solid and experienced technical advice whatever the situation they need help with.
The region is large and spreads along the south coast from Margate to Exeter. This generally would involve a lot of travel from our head office in Sidcup but we have mitigated this in 3 ways:
- By aiming recruitment at local people.
- By using suppliers from Wessex to minimise travel and driving.
- By planning work in an efficient way to stop travel journeys overlapping or being doubled up. This significantly improves our carbon footprint on this contract.
