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.

An Atkins-Jacobs JV will lead trials this summer of new technology to enable the development of self-monitoring and self-maintaining bridges. Technologies likely to be tested include AI and machine learning.

Rail minister Huw Merriman has said the HS2 Euston plans are unaffordable at current costs and that the government will consider partnering with the private sector to ensure “it delivers” for taxpayers.

Government and industry have launched a plan to eliminate 78% of diesel machinery from UK’s construction sites by 2035.

Applications are now open for a new apprenticeship programme with HS2’s construction partner EKFB

HS2 has completed works on the first enormous V-shaped piers that will carry the Colne Valley Viaduct over a series of lakes just outside London.

A CIOB site visit to the new HS2 Curzon Street station in Birmingham will take place on 22 June.

A joint venture between Sir Robert McAlpine and subsidaries of Bouygues and VolkerWessels is using an Amazon Locker-inspired delivery system at its HS2 site in Hertforshire.

Blackwell Earthmoving is giving Buckinghamshire residents the opportunity to launch a career in construction 

Kier, Aecom, the new Everton stadium and Big Ben lead the field of nominees for the Digital Construction Awards 2023.

A construction worker has died on a HS2 site in the West Midlands.

HS2 has started using a hydrogen dual fuel piling rig in its London site in what is thought to be the first real-world use of the technology on a construction site.

A selection of construction pictures from the past month.

As a senior construction assurance manager at HS2 Ltd, every day presents a fresh challenge for Kelvin Nagberi

An American robotics company, Sarcos, has completed a pilot project that uses robots to install photovoltaic panels. During the field trial, an autonomous vehicle with a Sarcos robotic arm combined…

The National Audit Office has called on government to rethink its HS2 strategy to avoid incurring in further failures.

The construction industry has reacted with dismay to the government’s announcement that the Birmingham to Crewe leg of HS2 will be delayed by two years due to rising costs.

Two giant tunnelling machines, ‘Florence’ and ‘Cecilia’, excavating the HS2 Chiltern Tunnels have passed the halfway point.