The next in our online In Conversation With… event featured Scotland Office Minister, Iain Stewart MP, Alastair Young, Transport Scotland and Jim Steer, HSRG Director. This 1-1 interview and audience Q&A was chaired by columnist and broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika – and provided a timely opportunity to discuss Anglo-Scottish high speed Read more…
HS2’s first two giant Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) have arrived in the UK and will be ready to start work early next year. Named Florence and Cecilia – the two enormous 2,000 tonne machines will now be meticulously reassembled, tested and commissioned, by an expert team of tunnelling engineers, before Read more…
HS2 has revealed the first images of one of HS2’s largest construction sites in the Midlands, which is being prepared for the launch of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will dig under Long Itchington Wood, creating a one mile twin bore tunnel, before the route heads North and swings Read more…
Our High Speed Rail Apprentice Network is made up of apprentices from across our member companies – helping to connect apprentices from across HS2 and its contractors, and the wider HSR family and provide apprentices with opportunities for networking, meeting other apprentices and sharing experiences and best practice.
We welcome The Railway Industry Association’s publication – 10 reasons why rail investment should continue – ahead of the Spending Review and in light of the debate over Coronavirus’s impact on the future of transport. The report sets out the case for how railways can play a pivotal role in Read more…
Voices from the worlds of politics, business and industry have come together in this report HS2 Midlands Voices – to argue that the full ‘Y shaped’ HS2 network must be completed in full to enable long-promised ‘levelling up’ of the regional and national economy. The report makes clear that HS2’s Eastern Leg Read more…
The UK 2070 Commission has produced a report that calls on the government to Go Big, Go Local. The report highlights how only a balanced growth plan, a New Deal for Levelling Up is likely to deliver greater prosperity without having damaging environmental and social consequences. Greengauge 21 produced the UK’s 2070 Transport Infrastructure Read more…
High Speed Rail Group has submitted a proposal to this year’s Comprehensive Spending Review calling for Government to fund a Deliverability Study to explore the options and proposals to connect Scotland to HS2. This would reduce journey times from London to Scotland to close to three hours, decarbonise the journey, Read more…
Our latest online panel event was arranged jointly with HS2 Ltd to coincide with International Women in Engineering Day – and is part of our ongoing work to increase the representation of women in the sector. The panel was made up of senior women from our membership and female apprentices Read more…
The Costain Skanska joint venture (CSjv) team, working in partnership with HS2, has shared details of its legacy programme that has created vast numbers of local jobs, invested in SMEs and challenged the stereotypical diversity of a construction project. These outcomes known under the term ‘Social Value’ support the long-term wellbeing and resilience of individuals, communities, and society in general.
Costain Skanska’s social value activities have included partnering with Buses for Homeless (B4H), a social enterprise which aims to get homeless people off the street and into full time sustainable employment and accommodation. B4H refurbishes decommissioned London buses into spaces suitable for their guests to live and takes them through an intensive 12-week training programme. The site set up includes separate buses for sleeping; cooking and eating; learning; and wellness and therapy.
Speaking of the initiative, Dan Atkins, Founder of Buses 4 Homeless said: (more…)