HS2

A joint venture between Mace and Dragados has been picked to build the £570m Curzon Street station for HS2. The deal will see the JV work with HS2 Ltd in two stages to finalise the detailed design and then build the landmark station. The decision also means that Mace has…

HS2 has purchased the plot earmarked for a 60-storey tower in Manchester by developer Ballymore. The site close to Manchester Piccadilly station had been mooted for a tower for decades, with planning permission initially granted 15 years ago. The latest plans for the scheme were for a building 188m in…

HS2 is exploring how it could use more offsite manufacturing and modular construction to deliver phase 2 of the high-speed train link. The company said in a prior information notice that using modern methods of construction (MMC) would help it to "deliver improved efficiency and value for money" for phase…

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has appointed the chief executive of the Financial Reporting Council and civil service veteran Sir Jon Thompson as a new non-executive director of HS2. The appointment will see Thompson “represent the government’s interests” on the board, the Department for Transport said. It added that he would…

Buckinghamshire Council has purchased two mobile CCTV cameras to keep tabs on HS2’s construction sites. The council has spent money provided by HS2’s assurance fund to acquire the cameras and contract operators to move between different locations over the next five years. Its corporate director for planning growth and sustainability…

HS2 is trying to determine the level of potential shortfalls in skilled workers required for the project, according to the minister charged with overseeing it. Responding to a written parliamentary question tabled by Labour MP for West Ham Lyn Brown, HS2 minister Andrew Stephenson said that HS2 Ltd and the…

HS2’s independent design panel has thrown its support behind plans to scale back plans for the new Euston station. Development of a smaller station was first proposed by the Department for Transport, which had ordered HS2 to decrease the number of platforms at the station from 11 to 10, following…

HS2 is facing a race against time after the Department for Transport (DfT) ruled out extending the body’s land-buying powers, Construction News has learned. HS2 has 10 months, until 23 February 2022, to initiate compulsory purchase order (CPO) proceedings before its legal powers to purchase land, as granted via the…

A network of tunnels created by HS2 Rebellion protesters in Euston have now been filled in. The joint venture between Mace and Dragados, which has been picked to deliver the new Euston station for HS2, filled in the tunnel network that, in January, had been dug in protest of HS2’s…

BKJV, a joint venture between Bauer Technologies and Keller, has been awarded a £95m contract to complete geotechnical work on the first phase of HS2. The JV will construct piled foundations for structures along the 80km-long C23 section of HS2, which runs between Chiltern Tunnel and Long Itchington Wood. The…