Tahir Ayub of Network Rail has won this year’s Sustainability Award at the RailStaff Awards 2012.
Working with industry stakeholders, Tahir, a senior design engineer at Network Rail’s Birmingham offices, has secured new methods of advancing signalling power design. Better systems have reduced the copper content of power cables by a third contributing to environmental and sustainability targets.
Tom O’Connor, managing director of the Rail Media Group which organises the RailStaff Awards, said: “As the railway seeks to reduce costs, sustain the environment and the communities it serves whilst fuelling the huge upgrades and expansion necessary, the skills and resourcefulness, like those eloquently displayed by Tahir Ayub, are essential.”
The Sustainability Award is a new award backed by Balfour Beatty Rail.
