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HS2 Ltd has today (8 July) confirmed that Kier Construction Limited will be appointed to deliver a major programme of highways and utility work on Phase 2a of the project, which will take the UK’s new high speed railway north of the West Midlands.

On the one-year anniversary of the Government’s Plan for Jobs, HS2 Ltd has announced that the project has reached another major milestone in its bid to build a lasting legacy of skills and education in the UK.

HS2 Minister Andrew Stephenson is hosting an online event for small and medium sized businesses in the South West to demonstrate just how simple it is to register an interest in joining HS2’s supply chain.

• 700,000 trees have been planted of the 7 million planned across the Phase One route.
• 118 environmental sites now home to a range of species including amphibians, dragonflies, otters, great crested newts, reptiles and badgers.
• HS2’s Woodland Fund has allocated over £1.2m as part of a grant scheme managed by the Forestry Commission, with another 213,000 trees planted.
• New photos available here: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/environment-wider-ecological-work-and-how-we-are-reducing-our-carbon-usage/tree-planting-2 

• At peak seven trains per day will leave the Logistics Hub
• The site will be the ‘beating heart’ of HS2’s construction activity in the South

• UK first as eco-friendly Hydro-treated Vegetable Oil (HVO) fuelled piling rig trialled on HS2 construction site in London.
• One of many green innovations on sites across the project, including hybrid and fully electric machinery, battery powered lighting, hydrogen power units as a replacement for diesel power generation, EFC concrete and solar energy - all cutting carbon emissions and improving air quality.