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On the first day of Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone [Tuesday 1 June] HS2 Ltd outlines how the project’s new low-carbon technology will support Birmingham City Council’s objective to reduce pollution and improve air quality in the city.

• New Zero Trim Pile Technique, utilising a vacuum excavator, has been successfully tested on HS2
• Innovation will reduce health and safety risks involved with piling, as well as significantly reducing carbon emissions, cost, and noise
• The technique has been developed by HS2 contractor Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture and Cementation Skanska

Just days after the historic launch of its first giant tunnelling machine ‘Florence’, HS2’s construction partner Align JV has announced today that it is recruiting nine new apprentices to play a part in the monumental programme of work to dig the 10 mile twin bore tunnels under the Chilterns.

A Buckinghamshire cricket club has secured nearly ten thousand pounds from HS2’s Community & Environment Fund to buy a new sit-on roller for the club’s ground based in Gawcott.

HS2 Minister Andrew Stephenson MP in Birmingham to celebrate crucial deal with contractor Mace Dragados, and see a showcase of the green construction technology that will be used to cut carbon on the project.

A Birmingham-based training provider is among the growing number of West Midlands businesses to win work supporting the delivery of Britain’s new low carbon railway HS2.