Balfour Beatty Vinci joint venture has completed half of the 700-metre-long HS2 Burton Green Tunnel in Warwickshire.

New drone footage shows a 20-strong team carefully lifting 15 colossal bridge beams into position at HS2’s Interchange Station in Solihull during a week-long operation.

HS2’s West Midlands contractor Balfour Beatty Vinci joint venture has completed the four huge piers of the Curzon 2 bridge in Birmingham.

A round up of the best images from January.

HS2 has completed the first 920-tonne deck span on the first precast segmental viaduct being built at the Delta Junction.

Over 2,000 cubic metres of concrete were poured to create the first two 90-metre sections of the viaduct deck structure that will bring HS2 trains into Birmingham’s Curzon Street Station.

Drone footage shows the completed 25m long, 18m wide Streethay overbridge near Lichfield.

A team of 20 demolition specialists from Solihull-based firm Armac Demolition worked around the clock to remove a 4,000 tonne two-span bridge over the M42 to make way for the HS2 railway in the West Midlands.

HS2 has completed the UK’s heaviest drive to install an intersection bridge structure beneath the West Coast Main Line at Fulfen Wood near Lichfield.

HS2 has began producing almost 3,000 huge concrete segments in the Midlands that will be used to build the high-speed railway’s Delta Junction.