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HS2’s latest performance data shows it has supported over 1400 people who were out of work into employment, demonstrating the project’s crucial role in the drive to Build Back Better and equip people with ‘Skills for Life’.

• Work to start on ‘Marston Box’ bridge which will carry HS2 over the M42
• First hi-tech ‘box slide’ of its kind over a motorway in the UK will slide a 10,000 tonne bridge into position next year
• Unique construction method dramatically reduces traffic disruption – a quicker and safer solution
• Images available here: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/construction/the-midlands/bridges-2 

• Concrete frame and substructure specialist Expanded started work on site last month
• The Old Oak Common Station box will be 850m long - the length of eight football pitches
• 690,000 cubic meters of clay will be removed, enough to fill eight Royal Albert Halls

John Henry Newman Catholic School in Chelmsley Wood will use the funding from HS2 to improve the health and wellbeing of students, offering employment support, skills and training.

Multidisciplinary environmental, engineering and mining consultancy, Wardell Armstrong, has today [Wednesday 17 November] welcomed Mark Thurston - HS2 Ltd's CEO - to a worksite where a team of environmental specialists are working on the early works phase of HS2 construction.

• Design and construction teams on track to cut carbon footprint of the Colne Valley Viaduct by at least 28.4% through innovative design and reducing use of concrete and steel.
• The cut in the amount of embedded carbon in the viaduct – 63,300 tonnes CO2e – is the equivalent of 234,500 flights from London to Edinburgh.
  
• Images of the construction of the Colne Valley Viaduct and design images, can be found here: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/construction/colne-valley-viaduct-the-uk-s-longest-railway-bridge