High Speed 2 contractors are busy with paperwork and other preparatory work before any ground is broken. UK's New Civil Engineer talks to some contractors. They explain that the much echoed 'Notice to Proceed' from...

  ALIGN JV (Bouygues Travaux Publics, VolkerFitzpatrick and Sir Robert McAlpine) wants   https://www.ukconstructionmedia.co.uk/opportunities/precast-concrete-tunnel-segment-chemical-and-repair-products-short-deadline/

  A homeowner's legal action against High Speed 2 based on an engineer's report that planned the tunnels could damage her home.  The report was prepared by Colin Elliff, a specialist railway engineer who was brought in to assess...

  HS2 Ltd, the owner of the High Speed 2 project, gets the official Notice to Proceed (NTP) from UK's Department for Transport for the contracts worth £12bn included the Phase 1 of the project. The approved work fall into the...

"The UK’s Department for Transport has given the controversial high-speed rail service (HS2) formal notice to proceed (NTP). The NTP signals a shift from design and early site preparation work, to more detailed design and construction...

  Despite peaking coronavirus cases in Britain, HS2 Ltd has informed their contractors that on April 20 they should restart the work. High Speed 2 project had been suspended because of the virus outbreak. There can be legal challenges to...

  HS2 management suspends work at the majority of the sites with the exception of 5 sites considered curicial to the project. Some West Midlands sites are among the ones where the activities will continue. For other sites, no date has been...

  It turns out that the contractors had already ordered the tunnel boring machines in 2019, when the HS2 project was still under review and the contractors were not given the go ahead.  A Freedom of Information request by...

  Nuttall and Ferrovial to replace Carillion in the original consortium of  Carillion, Kier and Eiffage for C2 and C3 contracts. Carillion, once the second-largest construction company in UK had gone bankrupt in 2018. According to EU...

The expert in question is 'Daniel Carbonell, technical director of HYP-ED, a student team based at the University of Edinburgh' and he does believe that the "British Government has still missed a trick". He believes Boris...

  In an academic paper, University College London and University of Sussex academics have identified 18 reasons why megaprojects such as Crossrail and HS2 often fail and also proposed 54 preventative solutions.   What Are the...

  High Speed 2 project timeline. So far. https://www.itv.com/news/2020-02-11/how-hs2-got-here-today-and-key-dates-in-project-s-history/

The main civil engineering contracts have yet to be signed off by the Treasury, despite having been signed way back in July...

The Chinese company has sent a letter directly to the Mark Thurston, the CEO of High Speed Two (HS2) Limited company responsible for the execution of the Britain's much discussed project. The Building magazine reports that, in the letter, the...

  As Prime Minister Boris Johnson approves the High Speed 2 project, there many opinions about it. Some say it is waste of money and even go to extremes for labeling it as a project to benefit the elite (anti EU Nigel Mansell of Brexit Party...

The New Civil Engineer lists the companies who would do the work for the High Speed 2 Phase 1. Tunnel builders will be rocking. There is a lot of tunnel work. See who is going to do which...

UK Prime minister Boris Johnson gives the go ahead for the “new anatomy of British transport” project High Speed 2. Prime minister has said that HS2 would be the "spine" of the rail netrowk which would solve the “the...