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…

A partnership of the Alan Turing Institute and Accenture is seeking bids from digital twin projects for research funding.

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.

The Skanska, Costain and Strabag (SCS) joint venture working on HS2 is using Zutec software.

The developer of a 28,000sq km coastal resort in Saudi Arabia, has been awarded the BSI’s BIM Project Kitemark.

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.

HS2 Ltd London tunnels contractor SCS JV (Skanska Costain Strabag joint venture) says 3D printing technology will reduce disruption to commuters during building works as well as mitigating environmental impact. 

The joint venture between Skanska, Costain and Strabag (SCS JV) is to 3D print concrete structures on the HS2 project, with the first test deployment scheduled to take place in 2022.

HS2 main works contractor Align JV – Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick – has started excavating one of five giant ventilation and emergency access shafts.

The Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial and BAM Nuttall joint venture is on track to more than halve the amount of embedded carbon on one of the HS2 viaducts it is building thanks to a new ‘double composite’ design.

Two factories are producing 196 pre-cast concrete segments a day to line the 16km twin-bored tunnel running under the Chilterns. Align, a joint venture between Bouygues, Sir Robert McAlpine, and…

HS2 has lunched the first of 10 giant tunnel boring machines (TBM) that will dig 64 miles of tunnel on phase one of the new high-speed railway. The first 170m-long…

Mace Dragados has beaten BAM Ferrovial and Laing O’Rourke to win a deal worth up to £570m to build the HS2 Birmingham Curzon Street station.

Police have appealed for witnesses after a group of around 30 people attacked workers from an HS2 construction site in Small Dean, Wendover, on Friday (26 March).

The first of 112,000 pre-cast, steel fibre-reinforced concrete wall segments that will line the HS2 Chiltern tunnel have been produced.