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Today (Friday 17 July) HS2 Minister, Andrew Stephenson MP has launched a major social legacy programme to be delivered by HS2 London contractors SCS called Empowering Communities, intended to benefit communities along the final part of the HS2 route into London.  

HS2 Ltd, the company delivering Britain’s new low carbon high speed railway, has launched a brand-new virtual work experience programme for school pupils.

Work to build the HS2 London terminus at Euston has taken a major step forward this month with the Mace Dragados joint venture moving onto the construction site adjacent to Euston station to begin work on the new high speed station in central London.

• New images show discovery of a skeleton from the Iron Age buried face down and with hands tied as part of HS2 archaeology in Buckinghamshire
• Other discoveries at the site span over 4000 years of human history, including a circular timber monument resembling the layout of Stonehenge

In its bid to reduce its carbon footprint and support the country’s green economic recovery, HS2 is pioneering the UK’s first electric forklift on one of its major construction sites in London.

Sheffield-based SME 3Squared has been awarded a major contract working on High Speed Two (HS2), generating new jobs within the South Yorkshire region. The railway technology company are working with one of HS2’s direct contractors, Skanska Costain STRABAG JV (SCS JV), who are delivering the tunnelling programme for the route between London Euston up to the M25.