160,000 m3 Concrete will be used to build the 7-ton sections. Outer diameter is 9.5 m and 0.35 m. thick. https://www.islalocal.com/pagadar-de-propiedad-espanola-se-adjudico-el-contrato-de-revestimiento-del-tunel-hs2/

First tunnel segment contract for HS2’s London tunnels awarded to Pacadar UK Isle of Grain - Kent factory will be producing 58,000 individual concrete tunnel segments, almost 10miles of tunnel Factory recently completed supply of...

"It has cost the taxpayer billions without a mile of track being laid – and it won’t even go north of Crewe" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/30/hs2-johnson-vanity-cost-taxpayer

HS2 Ltd prepares for continued rise in complaints https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/hs2-ltd-prepares-for-continued-rise-in-complaints-28-07-2021/

Excavation begins for HS2’s first ‘barn design’ tunnel vent shaft   Following the launch of HS2's first two giant tunnelling machines, engineers working on Britain’s new high speed railway have now begun...

This guy has nice info on his website about the HS2 sites https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/07/20/photos-from-the-hs2-tunnel-site-in-northwest-london/

Kier has been appointed by HS2 to deliver a major programme of highways and utility work on Phase 2a of the project, which will take the UK’s new high speed railway north of the West Midlands. It has been awarded the first stage of the...

Ground excavated from HS2 tunnels ad Old Oak Common will be used to fill up a former brickworks and cement open-pit mine just outside...

HS2 this week launched ‘Cecilia’ - the second of two enormous 2,000 tonne tunnelling machines that will excavate the ten mile long tunnels beneath the Chiltern hills just outside London. The first machine – ‘Florence’...

Mark Thurston, the chief executive of HS2, said “violent and disruptive” protests were spreading north and he had urged ministers to use “all the agencies of government” to help...

The £81m contract is for designing, supplying, installing, testing and commissioning the 3rd-party systems for customers' GSM use as well as for the emergency services and the station data network on the line between London and...

HS2 has obtained approval for an ambitious scheme which will use material excavated from the Chiltern tunnels to create 127 hectares of new chalk grassland, woodland, wood pasture and wetland habitats around the tunnel’s south portal. The...

Similar pressures have been reported by industry experts in projects ranging from Crossrail and the A303 Stonehenge tunnel to the Tideway tunnel ... https://www.ft.com/content/510f2a02-e9a1-4d21-a5ad-773e1824cb44

The UK arm of the Spanish contracting giant made a £1.5m pre-tax profit on revenue of £381.4m for the year ending 31 December...

....Overlooking High Speed 2's (HS2’s) two gigantic tunnel boring machines, you would be forgiven for mistaking the Chilterns construction site for a rocket launch pad straight from a Ridley Scott film...

The Align JV of Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick has started to excavate HS2’s 16 km Chiltern tunnel using semi-continuous boring machines, in what it says is a first for a UK tunnelling...

A Balfour Beatty/NG Bailey joint venture has withdrawn from the race to deliver HS2’s £498m Tunnel and Lineside M&E package, Construction News...

Cementation Skanska has secured the £93m job to create one of the largest current open-cut retaining boxes in Europe – equivalent in size to four football...

From New Civil Engineer; The DfT's dedicated minister for HS2 Andrew Stephenson has confirmed that High Speed 2 (HS2) contractors have never conducted a formal assessment of an alternative proposal to build a mined tunnel in Wendover, nor...

from HS2; HS2 signs landmark R&D agreement with the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure & Cities As part of its innovation programme, HS2 Ltd has today (14 May 2021) signed a ground-breaking agreement with leading...