High Speed 2 (HS2) Ltd has paid 97% of its invoices within 30 days during the last 12 months, showing an improvement from its 92% rate in 2021, according to a Freedom of Information request by NCE.
As per contract arrangements, HS2 Ltd is committed to prompt payment which means it…
The Department for Transport (DfT) has outlined a pipeline of contracts for East West Rail (EWR) and High Speed 2 (HS2) that will see procurment commence before the end of the year.
EWR is a new £5bn high-speed rail line between Oxford and Cambridge that is being overseen by East West…
HS2’s new terminus at Euston could be stripped back to a seven-platform station yet still face a £1bn over-spend.
The HS2 terminus, which had at one point expected to be built with 11 platforms, had one platform shaved off the plans in 2021. According to documents leaked to the Sunday Telegraph,…
Despite the pause on work on parts of High Speed 2 (HS2) announced last month, HS2 Ltd has said it will be holding market engagement events this summer as it will be releasing contracts "worth millions of pounds" for various types of jobs, including civil engineering works.
As work for the…
A 4m wide sinkhole has appeared above the route of High Speed 2's (HS2's) Chiltern Tunnels in Buckinghamshire.
Originally reported as being 5m to 6m across, a spokesperson for HS2 stated the hole, which appeared close to Shardeloes Lake near Amersham, is about 4m across and roughly 3-4m deep. The spokesperson…
The week before NCE interviewed HS2 Ltd head of innovation Howard Mitchell, the government announced it was delaying parts of the High Speed 2 (HS2) project.
It said that the leg between Birmingham and Crewe along with work associated with the Euston Station terminus would be pushed back. Several industry heavyweights…
Network Rail has submitted an application for a Transport Works Act Order (TWAO) to acquire land at Old Oak Common.
The submission to the Department for Transport will, if granted, allow Network Rail to compulsorily acquire (CPO) land and carry out works to create a compound on the south side…
High Speed 2 (HS2) main works contractor BBV (Balfour Beatty Vinci) has completed its second drive with tunnel boring machine (TBM) Dorothy below Long Itchington Wood, Warwickshire.
The TBM – named after Nobel Prize winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin – was launched in November last year to bore the second 1.6km Long…
HS2 Ltd has altered its design for the project's Manchester tunnel to reduce future flood impacts in West Didsbury.
Following a detailed assessment of the proposed construction works and revised flood modelling works, HS2 is proposing to relocate the Palatine Road vent shaft required for the Manchester tunnel. The major infrastructure…
HS2 Ltd has set out plans to improve capacity at junction 6 on the M56 to support future growth at the new proposed train station at Manchester Airport.
The proposals, developed in conjunction with National Highways, suggest relocating junction 6 of the motorway to the southwest and sequencing the works within…
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