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HS2 recruiting for hundreds of construction jobs

30 June 2020Hundreds of new jobs have been announced today (June 30) at HS2 Ltd, across a broad range of disciplines, from engineering and project management to land and property, procurement and commercial. These are just a few amongst those to be advertise...

£250m HS2 work package puts firms on alert

26 June 2020High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd has placed ground investigation firms on alert for a £250m package of work for phase two of the project, north of Birmingham. HS2 is planning to brief firms about the package in a webinar on July 9th ahead of inviti...

HS2 Minister responds to Transport Select Committee

25 June 2020Following a letter from the Transport Select Committee back in May, Andrew Stephenson, HS2 Minister yesterday (June 24th) responded and published his letter of response. Mr. Stephenson began his later by discussing the challenge of transparency....

HS2 searching for operational telecoms supplier

22 June 2020Today (June 22nd) HS2 have begun looking for an expert contractor to deliver 230km of revolutionary telecommunications systems which will link up to the UK’s new high-speed rail route between London, Birmingham and the north of England. The...

HS2 pledges to double its investment in graduate recruitment

18 June 2020Back in September 2018, at their Skills, Education and Employment event, HS2 illustrated their commitment to furthering a diverse workforce that addressed the gender and age imbalances that are commonplace across construction and rail engineering....

HS2 launches Innovation Accelerator initiative

17 June 2020HS2 Ltd announced yesterday (16th June) a new initiative of theirs titled ‘Innovation Accelerator.’ This new scheme aims to encourage and develop entrepreneurial ideas that can help drive project efficiencies and create wider long-ter...

HS2 minister to host roundtables on integrated rail plan

16 June 2020Andrew Stephenson, HS2 Minister, is hosting a series of virtual meetings with leaders from across the north and Midlands, making sure regional representatives can voice their properties for the integrated rail plan (IRP) and the current plans for...

HS2 reveals first images of new tunnel launch site

11 June 2020HS2 have today revealed (June 11th) a selection of new images showing the current preparations for the arrival of the project’s first giant tunnelling machines, which will be launched from a site next to the M25 early next year. The two 2,0...

High-Speed Rail and Scotland report

10 June 2020High-Speed Rail Group have published their latest report, titled ‘High-Speed Rail and Scotland’, which sets out how travel time between London and Scotland could be cut down to just over three hours. Through a combination of new high...

Revolutionary £2.7bn plan for Derbyshire’s links to HS2 hub station at Toton

28 May 2020A £2.7bn transport plan to deliver fast and frequent connections to the HS2 East Midlands Hub station at Toton and key development sties across the East Midlands has been released, with hopes to aid the economic recovery for Derbyshire post...

HS2: Tunnel Boring Machines first images revealed

26 May 2020HS2 have today (May 26) releveled the first images of their two Tunnel Boring Machines set to begin working on the project later this year. The TBMs are 170m in length, nearly 5 times the length of a football pitch, each one weights roughly 2000...

LEP approves £3.8m for Chesterfield Station Masterplan

21 May 2020Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire LEP (D2N2) approved a £3.8m grant yesterday (May 20), to part fund the construction of the £7.42m Hollis Lane Link Road project in Chesterfield. It forms a vital part of the Chesterfield...

HS2: More important than ever to invest in essential skills

20 May 2020Coronavirus has generated significant uncertainty throughout the rail industry, with those employers who have invested in an essential skills framework managing to adapt best to the unprecedented times

Planning approved for HS2 station set to be largest newly built station

20 May 2020HS2’s west-London super hub, Old Oak Common, had its planning application approved by the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) yesterday (May 19). Work can now progress on building what is set to be the largest new railway...

DfT responds to the Public Accounts Committee report

19 May 2020On Sunday (May 17th) the Public Accounts Committee published a report, stating that the High Speed 2 rail project has gone “badly off course” and demanded that Government gives regular, accurate and open updates on the problems the pro...