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.
The concrete beams, weighing a total of 565 tonnes, were hoisted into place onto existing abutments and piers using a 650-tonne crane. They will form the ‘building blocks’ of a road bridge that will take vehicles over the high-speed railway and onto the station car parks.
The contract to build Interchange Station was awarded to Laing O’Rourke last year, with work currently underway on design.
Due to be completed in early 2025, the next phase of construction will see a concrete deck placed on top of the beams, before parapet walls are installed and surfacing work can take place.
Balfour Beatty Vinci is the main works civil contractor for HS2 in the West Midlands.
