Items Tagged with 'HS2'

Contractor Balfour Beatty VINCI and heavy-lift specialist Mammoet rolled the bridge on two 128-wheeled self-propelled modular transporters.

Project developer has spent $36 billion on the continuing London-Birmingham phase and $2.2 billion on canceled phases. Closing down canceled work will add another $130 million.

The project was budgeted to cost $57 billion at 2019 prices, but an executive says poor planning and construction cost inflation are impacting the price.

With its workforce now peaking at around 30,000, the U.K.'s London-Birmingham 140-mile HS2 high speed railroad is shifting into the fit-out stage with more than $6 billion of track and system work being readied for procurement. 

Plans now call for completion of only half of the 340-mile HS2 network launched 13 years ago.

But the megaproject's current chances of successful delivery was rated "unachievable" by the government's Infrastructure and Projects Authority in its recent annual review.

A two-year pause of work will have uncertain impacts on the supply chain, overall program costs and local communities, according to a new report.

Supplier Grupo Pacadar is casting modular piers for the 2,890-ft-long viaduct. 

Construction of a 37-mile section from London north will be pushed back two years amid inflationary pressure and increased project costs.

The joint venture working on the London-Birmingham high-speed rail project says this is the world's longest slide of its type.