As the week draws to a close, CM rounds up the construction stories you may have missed over the past seven days.

As the week draws to a close, CM rounds up the construction stories you may have missed over the past seven days.

Align JV, the team made up on Bouygues, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick, has cast the first of 56 concrete piers supporting the Colne Valley Viaduct, set to become the UK’s longest railway bridge, for HS2.

A 2,000-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) has been launched in the Midlands to dig a one-mile tunnel under Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire.

HS2 has launched a new initiative that aims to enable companies of all sizes in its supply chain to be inclusive and to follow best practice on diversity.

Archaeologists working on the HS2 project have unearthed three stone Roman busts at what could once have a mausoleum under a medieval church in Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire.

HS2 has defended a decision to use non-UK-approved rebar from French fabricator Sendin on the high-speed rail project, despite criticism from the UK steel industry. The British Association of Reinforcement…

Contractor KN Circet has started work to refurbish the Grade I listed Old Curzon Street station in Birmingham, as part of the HS2 project.

Laing O’Rourke, Skanska and the Unity joint venture between Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick are all in the running for the £370m Solihull Interchange station.

A new pilot scheme for the role of an ecological clerk of works, who ensures contractors and clients comply with environmental legislation and planning conditions, is set to go ahead after being put on hold by the covid-19 pandemic.

HS2 has revealed the inner workings of its 170m-long tunnel boring machine (TBM) Cecilia, to show how the machine is excavating a 10-mile-long section of tunnel under the Chilterns.

Pre-cast concrete firm Pacadar has won a deal to produce 58,000 factory-built concrete tunnel segments for use in HS2’s London tunnels.