HS2’s journey north accelerates as Bill extending the route to Manchester is handed to Parliament   52-mile extension of high speed network to Manchester via Manchester Airport set to support 17,500 jobs HS2 Phase 2B Western...

"Taxpayers to foot bill for £40m HS2 bat tunnel" https://www.cityam.com/taxpayers-to-foot-bill-for-40m-hs2-bat-tunnel/

HS2 Minister commits to power Britain’s new highspeed trains with zero carbon energy from the outset – supporting the goal of making HS2 net zero from 2035 As part of the drive to net zero, HS2 Ltd plans to make construction...

HS2’s construction partner, Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV), is launching a major recruitment drive to bolster its workforce ready to deliver its huge programme of construction works into 2022 and beyond. Around 1.700 staff are already working...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG10NhSEG_I New images showing the green tunnel at Greatworth, Northamptonshire, with similar designs planned for Wendover and Chipping Warden Modular design set to cut embedded carbon in construction by 50%...

Lyndon SGB’s London division has netted major scaffolding and access contracts on Europe’s largest railway project, the High Speed Two (HS2) rail infrastructure program, at various project sites over the city. The contracts will last...

Covers also HS2. https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/key-decisions-expected-on-hs2-stonehenge-tunnel-and-lower-thames-crossing-early-in-2022-04-01-2022/

The Unite union wants plans for the use of UK-produced steel in the HS2 project, after it emerged that currently there are no such...

Two giant tunnel boring machines have been delivered to HS2’s West Ruislip site HS2’s Main Works Civils Contractor, Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture begin assembly ready for launch in 2022 The start of tunnelling for HS2 in...

HS2 -- On 2 December, HS2 CEO Mark Thurston pushed the button to start HS2’s tunnel boring machine on its one-mile journey under Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire, marking the launch of the first TBM on the Midlands section of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG10NhSEG_I HS2 embraces off-site manufacturing for first three ‘pre-fab’ green tunnels   HS2 today confirmed that Derbyshire-based Stanton Precast Ltd, has been awarded a major contract...

In a case brought forward by Misbourne Environmental Protection (MEP), 'The drilling practices of HS2 Ltd and the Environment Agency in the Chilterns will not be put up for judicial review' after the judge rules them as...

... identified in a new report from the CBI and Turner & Townsend. https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/learning-from-hs2-sizewell-c-and-stonehenge-tunnel-to-support-levelling-up-and-net-zero-goals-18-11-2021/

"The government has refused to confirm or deny reports that it will finally cancel plans for the HS2 link to Leeds this week, and instead fund" projects which favour Conservative...

The news itself is a bit outdated but the photos are worth it: https://www.inentertainment.co.uk/hs2-tunnelling-machines-complete-first-of-10-miles-under-the-chilterns/

"Builders have blamed HS2 for hoovering up key construction supplies before ordinary customers can get to them, resulting in industry-wide concrete shortages and rising...

HS2 had used French steel for the Chiltern tunnels which the British Association of Reinforcement says does not meet the British standards. https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/supply-chain/hs2-defends-its-use-of-non-uk-steel-26-10-2021/

'The station will now slim to a simpler 10 platform design from the earlier planned 11 platforms.' https://constructionreviewonline.com/news/hs2-reduces-euston-station-terminus-to-save-cost/

The construction method is interesting. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/10/26/inside-hs2s-huge-euston-construction-site/

  As it has been released: Written statement to Parliament HS2 6-monthly report to Parliament: October 2021 Review of High Speed 2 (HS2) including programme update, local community impact and engagement, environment...