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HS2 contractor cuts single use plastic with recycled bottles for shoes
21 Apr 2021Align joint venture, HS2’s construction partner for the Chilterns Tunnels and Colne Valley Viaduct, has taken an innovative step to reduce the use of single use plastic on its construction sites
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Final call for Warwickshire residents to name HS2’s Tunnel Boring Machine
20 Apr 2021- The 2,000 tonne Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) will be launched later this year, creating a one-mile twin bore tunnel under Long Itchington Wood.
- A competition to find a name for the moving mega-factory was launched in March and has already received over 120 suggestions.
- Exclusively aimed at Warwickshire residents, HS2 and BBV are calling on the local community to submit their final name ideas, with the competition portal closing on Friday 30 April 2021.
- New video and photos highlight construction progress at the Long Itchington Wood Tunnel site where the TBM will be assembled to start tunnelling this summer: https://visual.library.hs2.org.uk/p/share/4M3I_4C8JrEw
- People can submit names on the online competition portal here: https://www.hs2.org.uk/long-itchington-tunnel/
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‘Kickstart’ your career on HS2
06 Apr 2021HS2’s construction partner for West Midlands and Warwickshire, Balfour Beatty VINCI, is offering young people who are out of work the opportunity to kickstart their career on Europe’s biggest infrastructure project.
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HS2 accelerates north as first works contract signed on route from West Midlands to Crewe
01 Apr 2021- Contract signing marks start of works to extend HS2 to Crewe
- New woodland the size of 86 football fields planted
- 220 new ponds, enough to fill 10½ Olympic swimming pools