Category: HS2
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HS2 welcomes new recruits in the West Midlands
Career opportunities across the HS2 project are helping to boost local employment in the West Midlands. Latest figures show that HS2’s Midlands-based construction partner Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) has welcomed 69 new recruits in the last three months. This figure is expected to rise in the coming weeks as more candidates join the project. In…
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Video | HS2’s TBM Anne lifted to the surface in west London
Engineers from HS2’s London tunnels contractor, Skanska Costain Strabag JV, have begun lifting the last of four giant tunnelling machines to the surface. Weighing a total of 1,700 tonnes and stretching for around 150m, tunnel boring machine (TBM) Anne must be lifted out of the shaft in sections using a giant gantry crane. The first…
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Video | Drone footage shows HS2 river realignment
New drone footage shows HS2’s completion of the realignment of the River Cole near Coleshill in Warwickshire. The project was carried out to allow for the construction of the Birmingham Spur of the Delta Junction in the high-speed route. The realignment project was designed by HS2’s Mott MacDonald Systra Design joint venture and delivered by…
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HS2 contractor invests in local talent
The HS2 project is welcoming West Midlands university students onto a paid placement programme during the summer holidays. Now in its fourth year, the eight-week ‘earn and learn’ programme forms part of a wider drive to retain local talent by giving students an insight into future career opportunities in their community. The summer scheme is…
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In pictures | HS2 lifts 880t tunnel boring machine after 5km journey
Photos released by HS2 show how contractors lifted a giant tunnel boring machine (TBM) using a gantry on Saturday (26 July) following the completion of its 5.5km journey across west London. The TBM was lifted using a gantry crane (Image: HS2) The 880-tonne TBM with a 9.11m diameter cutterhead excavated 775,000 tonnes of London Clay…
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Virtual reality brings HS2 to life
CIOB members drove diggers and an excavator in an immersive virtual reality simulator at the HS2 Twyford to Greatworth area (T2G) site recently. On a visit to the Buckinghamshire project, members had a view of ongoing works and heard from the hosts about the efforts required to reach the current stage. The project is a…
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BuildPrompt’s AI revolutionises HS2’s document verification
BuildPrompt and HS2 won the Best Use of AI category at the Digital Construction Awards 2025. The BuildPrompt team collect their trophy from Karolina Orecchini of Digital Construction Week (far left), Lilian Ho of Aecom (second right) and Sally Phillips (far right) (Photo © 2025 – ASV Photography Ltd. www.ASVphotos.com) BuildPrompt’s AI solution for HS2…
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In pictures | The best images from June
A round-up of the most impressive construction pictures from the past month. Image: David Ganiford BAM’s Antarctic project complete The British Antarctic Survey’s new research facility, the Discovery Building, is coming into operational use following BAM’s work across six construction seasons during Antarctica’s brief summers. Full handover at the Rothera Research Station is expected during…
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Video | Footage shows two of the world’s biggest tower cranes at HS2
Heavy lift contractor Marr and the Balfour Beatty Vinci Systra joint venture (BBVS JV) are using three cranes, comprising two of Marr’s 330-tonne capacity M2480D heavy lift luffing cranes, supported by a 96-tonne capacity M860DX, to declutter the site. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Report slams historic mishandling of HS2 as more delays announced
A new report has criticised what transport secretary Heidi Alexander has called a “litany of failure” at HS2. The Stewart Review into the megaproject flags historic mishandling, lack of ministerial oversight and scrutiny, inadequate control of the project by HS2 Ltd and a lack of effective incentives with the supply chain that will result in taxpayers paying billions…