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Prestwood Methodist Church in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, is one of the latest beneficiaries of the HS2 Community and Environment Fund (CEF) as they have been successful in their bid for a £4,000 grant towards the cost of replacing four windows in the main hall at Prestwood Methodist Church.  

• Latest milestone in the countdown to the launch of HS2’s first giant tunnelling machines – Florence and Cecilia
• New photographs showing work inside the vast temporary pre-cast factory can be found here: https://visual.library.hs2.org.uk/p/share/4nP6HKFPqjgB

• Realignment of Canley Brook near Kenilworth reduced from 700 metres to just 80 metres diversion
• Savings of 600,000 cubic metres of excavated material and 28,000 cubic metres of concrete
• 2,500 lorry movements removed from local roads
• New design images here: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/viaducts-140-miles-of-track-carried-by-over-50-viaducts/canley-brook
• People can find out more at a free webinar on 25 March: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hs2-bbv-canley-brook-design-update-webinar-tickets-143073074417

HS2 began work this week on the UK’s longest railway bridge, with an expert team of ground engineers sinking the first of almost 300 piles that will form the foundations for the Colne Valley Viaduct.

• Innovation believed to be world-first
• Process cuts carbon production by up to 90%

• Deep Soil Mixing reveals how recycling methods cut costs and reduced HS2’s carbon footprint
• Soil testing was undertaken at the firm’s R&D laboratories in Stafford and Bedfordshire
• 1,000 lorry movements eliminated from roads in the Midlands as a result