We spoke Alex Dennis, Quality Apprentice working for Balfour Beatty Vinci Can you describe your role in a few words? My work involves assuring quality is maintained over the HS2 project – so making sure we meet all of the requirements by completing audits, to ensure the project is meeting Read more…
We spoke to Matarr Njie, an Apprentice Engineer working for Balfour Beatty Vinci Can you describe your role in a few words? I can describe my role as very interesting. At the moment I am working on understanding procedures, methodologies, and engineering as a whole, whilst working collaboratively within an Read more…
The deposit of the Hybrid Bill for the Western Leg of HS2 is a key moment in the advancement of HS2, as plans are progressed to create a truly North-South railway with connections between Crewe and Manchester. High speed rail links, which will change the nation’s economic geography, are one Read more…
HS2 Ltd has published it’s Net Zero Carbon Plan, which sets out how HS2 will achieve new carbon reduction milestones, support the decarbonisation of the UK construction sector and reduce the carbon footprint of the programme. The report details that HS2 trains will be powered by zero carbon energy from the first Read more…
HS2 Ltd has released some of the first images of the longest of three innovative ‘green tunnels’ that will be built across Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire to help blend the new high-speed rail line into the landscape and reduce disruption for residents. The one-and-a half-mile long Greatworth tunnel will be built Read more…
We welcome the announcement of the HS2 rolling stock contract to the Hitachi/Alstom JV as a huge step forward for the project. The contract will see the construction of the first 54 HS2 trains at factories in County Durham, Derby and Crewe, creating 2,500 skilled jobs. The HS2 trains will offer Read more…
The first tunnel boring machine (TBM) in the Midlands has now been launched, brought in to dig a one-mile tunnel under Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire as part of Phase 1 of the HS2 project. The TBM is named ‘Dorothy’ after Dorothy Hodgkin, who in 1964 became the first British Read more…
The publication of Sir Peter Hendy’s Union Connectivity Review is recognition of the incredibly important role of rail – and of high speed rail – in providing much needed connectivity benefits across the UK. High Speed Rail Group welcome the planned creation of UKNET – a strategic approach to development Read more…
If today’s announcements had come from a standing start, the industry would doubtless have been pleased with the investment. But the reality is they represent a reduction in the previous plans for both HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail. HS2 is the single most important infrastructure project in the UK for Read more…
Music producer and rail enthusiast Pete Waterman visited HS2’s Long Itchington Wood Tunnel site in Warwickshire to unveil the name of HS2’s first tunnel boring machine (TBM) on the northern section of Phase One. During a ceremony on the construction site, which is managed by HS2 joint venture Balfour Beatty VINCI, Pete revealed that Read more…