Audit and Assurance
Assurance is the process of providing confidence to stakeholders that projects, programmes and portfolios will achieve their scope, time, cost and quality objectives, and realise their benefits.
Audit and Assurance Resources
Resources include papers, videos, research summaries and good practice documents produced by authors from across the HS2 Family to capture learning, good practice and innovation from the HS2 programme
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HS2 Phase 2b Environmental Statement Management through progressive assurance
The Phase 2b Environmental Statement (ES) was one of the largest produced in the UK in recent years. The ES required inputs from a diverse range of organisations across the supply chain and within HS2 Ltd. In order to facilitate the production of a robust, consistent and proportionate ES compliant with Parliamentary Standing orders, a…
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Delivering first line of defence assurance – embedding a design team as a ‘Critical Friend’ within the contractor team
A comprehensive assurance process was developed for design and construction activities on High Speed Two (HS2) - with suppliers providing a first line of defence for a right first-time product. Contractor teams were required to deliver against a diverse and emerging scope of works to challenging programme constraints. To make the best design and CDM…
