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 Vent Shaft site in South Kilburn, where HS2’s civils contractor Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture (SCS JV) have introduced a range of diesel-free technologies and greener equipment.
Earlier this year, HS2 Ltd announced that the project aims to be net-zero carbon from 2035, with the target of achieving its first diesel-free construction site in 2022, and all of its construction sites being diesel-free by 2029.
Innovations on this site include one of the UK’s first 160 tonne emissions-free fully electric crawler cranes; the use of biofuels (Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil) to power plant and machinery on site; an electric compressor; and access to mains power on a 100% renewable energy tariff.
HS2’s Net Zero Carbon Plan sets out how HS2 will achieve new carbon reduction milestones, support the decarbonisation of the UK construction sector and reduce the carbon footprint of the programme. Other sites are set to follow suit, with innovations including retrofit technologies, biofuels, hydrogen and solar power helping to cut carbon across the whole of the route.
Innovations being trialled and introduced on other sites include:
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Major green milestone for HS2 as project announces first diesel-free construction site
mediacentre.hs2.org.ukCanterbury Road Vent Shaft site in South Kilburn becomes HS2 Ltd’s first completely diesel-free construction site
Major moment for the project in its journey towards net-zero carbon emissions by 2035