Railway Engineering Associates
Railway Engineering Associates (REA) is an association of Consulting Engineers who specialise in all aspects of engineering for rail based transportation systems. The principals of REA and their associates all have many years of experience in railways, including heavy and light rail and metro systems.
The Company offers advice on a wide range of matters concerned with the provision and maintenance of infrastructure for railways as well as operational matters and financial planning. Company’s recruitment policy is designed to ensure that all staff are experienced and trained in rail associated subjects, and that senior staff have many years of theoretical and practical experience. It is the Company’s belief that only people with practical ‘hands on’ experience can assess all of the criteria necessary to a sufficient degree to ensure that conclusions, final designs and recommendations are achievable, safe and economic.The provision of any infrastructure is an extremely complex business. To be successful, the recommendations and designs must consider the future use, operation and maintenance of the system as well as the construction, must integrate these in their proper proportions and limits to achieve a sound whole of life solution.
Because of the specialist nature of the work, the Company generally operates in conjunction with other carefully selected experts. These specialists are always supervised by a Senior member of REA staff with a good general knowledge of the industry to ensure that the benefits of using experts are maximised, that their specialisms do not lead to fragmentation of the service but to a carefully integrated effort. We believe that this provides the most flexible and economic way of giving the client the best advice possible.