HS2 shortlists suppliers for Track Systems and Tunnel and Lineside M&E
HS2 has released its shortlist of bidders for two contracts – Track Systems and Tunnel and Lineside Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) systems. The successful bidders…
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HS2 cleans up its construction equipment
The HS2 project is developing a radical new technology that will clean up the emissions from its heavy construction equipment at a fraction of the…
HS2 ‘Meet the Contractor’ event includes 1,100 one-to-one meetings with main contractors
Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, and the lockdown imposed over the UK, HS2’s third annual ‘Meet the Contractor’ event, which takes place between 23…
HS2 tunnel vent headhouse for Little Missenden
The design of the vent shaft headhouse that HS2 plans to build at Little Missenden, to provide ventilation and emergency access to the 10-mile-long Chilterns…
HS2 headhouse design for Canterbury Works revealed
HS2 has revealed the design of one of the four vent shaft headhouses that will be built to provide ventilation and emergency access to the…
Second HS2 modular bridge installed
A 914-tonne modular road bridge, the second of four being installed at site of HS2’s Interchange station near Birmingham, has been driven into place over…
Call for HS2’s Eastern leg to be built in full
Due to concern that the construction of HS2 may be ‘phased’, and that the East Midlands leg through to Leeds may be delayed, or even…
HS2 funds Employment and Skills Hub in West London
A new Employment and Skills Hub will be set up in West London after the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) has secured…
British-made solar and hydrogen-powered welfare cabins save tonnes of carbon on HS2 work sites
HS2, which is now building Britain’s new high-speed railway line from London to the Midlands and the North, has been trialling solar and hydrogen-powered welfare…
Excavated remains from site of HS2’s Euston station to be reburied in Surrey
Working with the Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England, HS2 has reached an agreement with Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey for the reburial of bodies…