Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) has partnered with HS2 and Build UK, the leading representative organisation for the UK construction industry, to support the ‘Open Doors 2023’ programme, running from Monday 13 – Saturday 18 March 2023. Open Doors takes young people, and...

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 second year,...

HS2 Ltd is celebrating a world-first as around 450 people from HS2’s construction contractor in the Midlands – Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) – slid a 12,600 tonne bridge a record 165 metres to position it across a motorway in Warwickshire. The site team worked around the...

As 2022 ends, HS2 Ltd – the company building Britain’s new high speed railway – is celebrating a momentous list of milestone achievements over the past twelve months, including the launch of three more Tunnel Boring Machines, ten of our construction sites going...

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) has launched a new partnership with STEM Returners to help STEM professionals return to work after a career break. BBV, a joint venture between Balfour Beatty and VINCI is HS2’s construction partner for the West Midlands. As part of their...

HS2 Ltd has revealed designs for the 150-metre section of viaduct as part of the approach to Birmingham’s new Curzon Street Station, including a 25-metre-high truss which will create a new icon on the city’s skyline. A unique light installation, designed by British...

Mark Harper, Secretary of State for Transport, and HS2 Ltd Chief Executive Mark Thurston recently went 33 metres below ground for an exclusive end-to-end tour of the first completed tunnel on the HS2 project. The Transport Secretary’s historic drive-through comes a...

HS2 Ltd and its contractors have donated 300 native tree saplings and sustainable tree guards to Corley Academy, a secondary school near Coventry for students with complex social and communication difficulties. The project contributes to the Queen’s Green Canopy, the...

During National Tree Week, and as HS2 starts its next season of tree planting, the project is celebrating the first five years of habitat creation on Phase One. Over 845,000 trees have now been planted and maintained including native species such as hazel, hawthorn,...

HS2 Ltd’s 125 metre-long ‘Dorothy’ tunnel boring machine has launched for her second one-mile tunnel bore under Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire, marking the next big milestone for construction on the northern section of Phase One. After launching in December...