by David Lavender | 25th March 2024 | News Article
HS2 has announced the public’s preferred design options for a landmark HS2 viaduct near Solihull after a vote by people in Balsall Common. Earlier this year, design options for the appearance and patterning of Balsall Common viaduct’s acoustic parapets, and the...
by David Lavender | 18th March 2024 | News Article
University students who live, or study, in the Midlands are being offered the chance to join HS2’s construction partner Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) on an eight-week paid work placement this summer. BBV’s undergraduate summer scheme, which is now in its third...
by David Lavender | 8th March 2024 | News Article
Natalie Smith from Redditch is quite literally laying the foundations for HS2’s arrival. The 44-year-old mother of one is among the growing ‘orange army’ of female construction workers that changed career to play a part in building Britain’s new railway....
by David Lavender | 7th March 2024 | News Article
HS2 welcomes Schedule 17 planning permission from Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council for the design of the green tunnel at Burton Green. The designs respond to community feedback, focusing on bigger and better green spaces around the railway, following public...
by David Lavender | 6th March 2024 | News Article
HS2 has launched the last tunnel boring machine (TBM) to dig tunnels for the new high speed railway in the West Midlands. The 125 metres long TBM has started on its journey to dig the second bore of HS2’s Bromford Tunnel, between the east portal at Water Orton in...
