Client Overview: Premier Partnership (HS2 Programme)
Premier Partnership delivers project controls on HS2, the UK’s largest rail infrastructure programme — a project spanning multiple work fronts, contractors, and highly complex, geographically distributed construction packages. On a programme of this scale, schedules aren’t just long — they’re linear: kilometres of track, multiple work fronts progressing in parallel, and constant risk of physical clashes between activities happening at the same chainage at the same time.
Project Overview
Industry: Rail / Major Infrastructure Services Provided: In-house TILOS Training, Linear Scheduling & Clash Detection, P6 ↔ TILOS Data Exchange
The Challenge
HS2 project controls team — including Senior Project Controls Manager needed to build genuine, hands-on capability in TILOS: not just how to use the software, but how to think in linear terms. Their existing schedules lived in Primavera P6, built around thousands of activities with no way to visualise where work fronts along the alignment would physically clash. The team needed to be able to bring P6 data into TILOS, build a working time-distance model of their own project, and use it to spot and resolve conflicts before they became delays on site.
Our Approach
Rather than a generic software walkthrough, the training was built entirely around the team’s own project data, live:
- Structured a real linear schedule from scratch — distance, calendars, activity relationships, and time-location views — using the team’s own work packages as the working example
- Set up and troubleshot P6 ↔ TILOS data exchange via Excel Data Exchange, so the team could move real schedule data between the two tools they use every day
- Configured and debugged clash detection — including the easy-to-miss setting that silently excludes an activity from being checked, a real issue the team found and fixed live during the session
- Worked through activity templates and libraries, so the team could standardise activity types (e.g. digging, ballast laying) and reuse them across sectors
- Covered resources, calendars, baselining, and progress reporting within TILOS
- Delivered flexibly across two full working days, adapting pace and depth in real time to the team’s own questions and their live project file
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Conclusion
By training directly on the team’s own project data rather than a generic sample file, the HS2 team left able to build, read, and troubleshoot a real TILOS schedule — including the P6 integration and clash-detection setup that most teams only discover the hard way, mid-project. This is the same hands-on, project-based approach behind every TILOS and Primavera P6 programme Ecostar Plan delivers across UK rail, nuclear, highways and energy infrastructure.