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Costain appoints O'Grady to lead HS2 London tunnels JV
Costain has appointed Rohan O'Grady to lead the Skanska Costain Strabag joint venture (SCS JV) delivering HS2's London tunnels. O'Grady will become managing di…
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HS2 hopes to seal SCS and BBV contract resets by Christmas
HS2 chief executive Mark Wild told MPs he hopes to reach agreement on two major civils contract resets before Christmas. Speaking to the Public Accounts Commit…
Housing
HS2 appoints programme chief to complete construction contracts
HS2 Ltd has recruited former Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) boss Neil Holm as its new chief programme officer to focus on construction contracts. Holm (pictu…
Housing
HS2 to introduce measures to stop construction site's 'foul odour'
HS2 has agreed to introduce measures to stop a foul odour emanating from a construction site in North Warwickshire that is being exacerbated by the recent heat…
Housing
HS2 inks contract reset with two civils JVs
HS2 Ltd has renegotiated its main civils contracts with the Align and EKFB joint ventures (JVs) as part of the high-speed rail programme's broader reset. But C…
Autos
HS2 West Midlands sites reopened after worker hit by vehicle
Work has resumed at all of the Balfour Beatty Vinci joint venture's (BBV JV's) West Midlands HS2 sites, following a six-day closure after a worker was struck b…
Industrials
HS2 tunnel JV fined £400k after driver injured by falling tipper
A joint venture working on the HS2 rail project has been fined after the driver of a 20-tonne tipper truck was injured when his vehicle fell off the edge of an…
Transport
HS2 running out of time to renegotiate civil contracts, watchdog says
HS2 Ltd is running out of time to save costs on civil work after failing to renegotiate contracts, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned. Those running th…
Transport
Pause HS2 reset until you are confident it can be delivered, NAO tells ministers
Spending watchdog says high-speed rail project must be put on stable footing to avoid repeat of costly past failures. Revised plans for HS2 should not be put i…
Housing
HS2 ramps up counter-fraud attempts
HS2 has overhauled its approach to tackling fraud, newly released board papers reveal. According to minutes of several meetings over a span of months, all publ…
Consumer
Burnham pledges to revive HS2 link to Manchester
Andy Burnham has promised to resurrect the HS2 leg from Birmingham to Manchester if he becomes prime minister. The Greater Manchester mayor said at the weekend…
Housing
HS2 land release accelerates first phase of £3.2bn Arden Cross scheme
The Department for Transport has confirmed that development land around the HS2 Interchange station in Solihull will be released from 2030, allowing the first…
Transport
HS2 launches market engagement for £1.24bn maintenance contracts
HS2 has launched a market engagement exercise for a potential £1.24bn package of interim maintenance contracts linked to the high-speed rail programme. The pro…
Transport
Faisal Islam: Why a full HS2 line could still be built despite the latest fiasco
The Transport Secretary has said the high-speed rail line will not be completed until 2039.
Housing
Higher costs and lower speeds in latest HS2 update
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has told parliament the expected cost of completing HS2 is now between £87.7bn and £102.7bn in 2025 prices. When first conc…
HS2 costs could top £100bn and trains will be slower than first planned
The new cost range and train speed are being announced as a "reset" of the delayed, over-budget and vastly scaled-back project is carried out.
Housing
HS2 applies reset lessons to 'nerve centre'
The contractors chosen to build HS2's "nerve centre" will not begin main works until 2028 so that the design can be completed as part of the megaproject's rese…
Transport
HS2 failings blamed on high-speed focus and political pressure
A new reviews confirms the high-speed rail line's "original sins" include a technical design, changing political priorities and ballooning costs.
Healthcare
Joint venture wins £856m HS2 'nerve centre' job
A joint venture (JV) between Taylor Woodrow and Aureos has been awarded a contract to build HS2's "nerve centre" at Washwood Heath in Birmingham. The £856m dea…
Housing
Mark Wild further delays HS2 reset review
HS2 chief executive Mark Wild's long-awaited review of the project has been delayed for a second time. In a video released this week, Wild said the reset, whic…
Transport
DfT chiefs defend using HS2 team for Liverpool-to-Manchester line
Senior government officials have defended a decision to put a key strand of the £45bn Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) programme in the hands of a team from the…
Housing
HS2 records more than 2,300 near misses in four years
HS2 has recorded more than 2,300 near-miss incidents in the past four calendar years, Construction News can reveal. A serious near miss last September saw a be…
Transport
HS2 to become freight-only under new north-south rail plan
Ministers are drawing up plans for a major new passenger rail line linking London, Manchester and Leeds, with HS2 set to be converted into a freight-only route…
Housing
HS2's reset plans delayed until summer
HS2 chief executive Mark Wild's eagerly awaited review of the project has been delayed until the summer, amid an effort to consider further cost savings. Trans…
Transport
HS2 trains could run slower than planned to save money
The government is looking at ways to make much-delayed London to Birmingham railway line cheaper to deliver.
Transport
Gallery: HS2 completes Coleshill viaduct decks at Delta junction
Engineers from the Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) joint venture have completed the installation of four parallel viaduct decks at HS2's Delta junction outside Birm…
Housing
DfT launches early market engagement for HS2 Euston station
The Department for Transport (DfT) has begun early market engagement in its hunt for partners in a public-private deal to design, build and maintain the planne…
Industrials
HSE 'satisfied' with HS2 investigation into serious near-miss
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has said it is satisfied with HS2's response to the serious near-miss that led to a pause on its London tunnels work. On…
Housing
Construction begins on HS2 tunnel from west London to Euston
The first of two boring machines was switched on in west London on Tuesday.
Industrials
HS2 raised safety concerns with JVs months before serious incident
HS2 bosses raised worries over contractors' health and safety performance just months before a serious near-miss incident paused work on London tunnels, it has…
