HS2 contractors Balfour Beatty Vinci Systra (BBVS JV) and Skanska Costain Strabag (SCS JV) have collaborated to build a 2.2km-long network of conveyors to transport spoil away from their operations in west London.
The conveyor network has three spurs, serving the Old Oak Common station site, the Victoria Road Crossover box, and the Atlas Road site. It then connects to the HS2 Logistics Hub.
Together, the sites generate 3,000-5,000t of spoil each day. In total, the construction of HS2 in west London is expected to generate five million tonnes of spoil.
The conveyor system removes the need for a million lorry movements from the roads in west London.
Once spoil has reached the logistics hub, it will be transported by rail to one of three destinations across the UK: Rugby, Cliffe in Kent, and Barrington in Cambridgeshire.
The spoil will be used for a variety of purposes, including creating a bird sanctuary and filling voids in land ahead of redevelopment.
