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Work involved excavating 14,000 tonnes of earth, building a 140 metre retaining wall and moving a 2,600 tonne bridge deck 130 metres into place under the South Staffordshire freight railway.
The work was carried out during a 10 week blockade. It was co…
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HS2[1] has finished building a bridge at Streethay near Lichfield[2] in Staffordshire[3].
The bridge was built by HS2[4]’s West Midlands[5] civils contractor, Balfour Beatty VINCI, and designed by Mott MacDonald as part of a Design Joint Venture with S…
Britain has endured its fair share of doomed prestige projects, said Larry Elliott in The Guardian[1], but “as white elephants go, HS2 is in a class of its own”. Since the high-speed rail link got the formal parliamentary go-ahead in 2012, it has becom…
HS2 has completed a ‘marathon’ construction operation at Streethay near Lichfield as part of an innovative project to pave the way for Britain’s new high-speed line.
The operation – which utilised the latest low-carbon design – involved excavating 14,0…