The development corporation behind the Old Oak Common regeneration in West London is searching for suppliers to deliver its proposed £800M heat network, which would be powered by waste heat from data centres.
The Old Oak Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC), which has been established under the auspices of the Mayor…
The joint venture in charge of building the new station at Old Oak Common for High Speed 2 has revealed new tender opportunities for the platforms and central core flooring for the West London project.
The JV between Balfour Beatty, Vinci and Systra (BBVS) has published two tender opportunities with a…
HS2 Ltd's latest cost forecast for High Speed 2 (HS2) from Euston to Birmingham is £3bn higher than the government's projections, but the Department for Transport (DfT) believes a reassessment is needed.
The revelation comes in transport minister Huw Merriman’s latest six-month report on the high-speed rail project, where he states:…
Excavation of the UK’s first “caterpillar shaft” is underway for a key structure on High Speed 2 in London.
West London’s Old Oak Common station will become one of the country’s most vital transport hubs when it opens. It will have 14 platforms – six for High Speed 2 (HS2)…
This video was recorded at NCE’s Rail and Transit conference. Balfour Beatty Vinci Systra joint venture project director Nigel Russell and High Speed 2 (HS2) Old Oak Common head of delivery Peter Gow discuss the construction and development of the Old Oak Common Station, which when finished will be the…
Two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to drive the 7.2km twin-bore High Speed 2 (HS2) tunnels between Old Oak Common and Euston will be put in place underground years before the government gives permission to proceed.
The development of HS2’s London terminus at Euston was put on pause in March when the government…
The first two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) launched for High Speed 2 (HS2) in London have completed the first mile (1.6km) of their drives for a twin bored tunnel.
TBMs Sushila and Caroline were launched by SCS (Skanska Costain Strabag JV) in October last year from the HS2 site in West…
High Speed 2 (HS2) Ltd has launched the procurement process for a specialist contractor to deliver platform edge doors at its Old Oak Common and Interchange stations.
The contract opportunity is for a framework agreement that covers platform barrier and automatic doors along the edge of the platforms. These will line…
HS2 Ltd has released its HS2 Corporate Plan 2022 to 2026, providing an overview of its goals for High Speed 2 (HS2) beyond the mid-decade mark.
Construction of key routes and stations is scheduled to go ahead, while HS2 East connecting Birmingham in the West Midlands to the East Midlands is…
Work on a 30km section of the planned route between the High Speed 2’s (HS2's) Birmingham Curzon Street station and Handsacre in Staffordshire is being rephased for a predicted two years, throwing jobs into jeopardy for the railway's construction partner on the project, Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV).
BBV is construction partner…
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