Hi all, I have posted some tunnelling jobs at the Tunnel Jobs group....

Night-time operation in Warwickshire takes the giant ‘Dorothy’ Tunnel Boring Machine’s cutterhead back to Long Itchington Wood Tunnel north portal Impressive sight as the 160 tonne cutterhead was moved upright on a 12 metre-long,...

The order makes going onto HS2 land without permission or disrupting work a potential contempt of court - the offence of ignoring a judge's ruling.   https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61721267

  In August at HS2's 2,5km long Chitern Tunnel, some quality problems had been discovered with the precast concrete supplied by Stanton Precast (Sateba). The MD of the company Ian Steel had got the job just 7 months ago on 8...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSleg2_FoNA As the tunnelling machines under the Chilterns approach the four-mile mark, HS2 completes the first of thirty-eight underground connections between the northbound and southbound tunnels The...

Problems have emerged in some of the 5,000 pre-cast concrete segments. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hs2-cost-rise-over-concrete-27792811

  Quality issues have been identified on the already constructed first 100 meters of the total 2.5km long “green tunnel” in Northamptonshire being built by contractor EKFB (Eiffage Kier Ferrovial Bam JV). Assurance tests are...

UK Department of Transport says; Historic breakthrough on London to Birmingham route. Dorothy, HS2’s whopping 2000-tonne custom-made tunnel boring machine, has completed her first tunnel breakthrough along the London to Birmingham...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QJC26IX9Vnc HS2 Ltd continues to make progress at Euston, as work continues behind the hoardings to make way for Britain’s new high-speed railway. To create space for the new HS2 station, HS2’s station...

Historic breakthrough on London to Birmingham route https://www.gov.uk/government/news/history-made-as-dorothy-hs2s-state-of-the-art-tunnel-boring-machine-completes-the-projects-first-tunnel-after-8-months-underground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP2c35tcpps Massive Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) in Warwickshire becomes first on the HS2 project to complete its full journey underground. The first bore of the one-mile tunnel under Long Itchington Wood has been...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHjDH4AGTz0 A new conveyor has started operating on HS2’s Long Itchington Wood Tunnel site in Warwickshire to take over 750,000 tonnes of excavated material over the Grand Union Canal where it will be reused...

As part of its work as HS2’s main works contractor, the joint venture between Balfour Beatty and Vinci (BBV) has begun using conveyor in a bid reduce the number of HGV movements too and from the...

Skanska, as part of the Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture, has been awarded an additional GBP 78M, about SEK 970M, under the existing contract with HS2 Ltd towards works on phase one of the new high-speed railway in UK. This will be included in...

HS2 has awarded Skanska Costain Strabag joint venture an extra £78m deal for the Euston Tunnels project. https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2022/06/28/hs2-agrees-78m-variation-on-euston-tunnels-cost/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tu0J7PeDNQ First of five HS2 ‘green tunnels’ that, when complete, will be covered by earth and host trees and shrubs to fit in with the surrounding countryside HS2 today [Friday 10th June]...

The world’s first all-electric, high-capacity drilling rig is carrying out work on an HS2 construction site in Warwickshire Results show the new BAUER eBG33 cuts 1,200kg of CO2 per day and reduces noise by 50% Wider roll-out will bring...

BBC says the fire involved ' a vehicle used to ferry staff in and out of the Chiltern Tunnel near Maple Cross in Hertfordshire'. Three workers took shelter in the safety shelter of the TBM. Fire did not damage the TBM. Official HS2 site...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwWJWcGY_lU HS2 Ltd release. HS2 Ltd - the company building Britain’s new high speed, low carbon railway - has today [Thursday 12 May] announced its first completely diesel-free site is the Canterbury Road...

  The 8.9 meters long TBM will be launched in the coming weeks to dig a 300m long drainage tunnel close to the north portal of the Chiltern Tunnel at South Heath. The vast majority of the route north of the Chiltern tunnel from South Heath...