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HS2’s construction partner for Old Oak Common Station has achieved a prestigious workforce award – recognising its outstanding commitments to diversity and inclusion.

• New training course to get Camden residents ready for careers in construction in just two weeks, with around 30 local people expected to benefit
• Running at HS2’s Euston Approaches compound, the initiative is a collaboration between Flannery Plant Hire, HS2 and its construction partner Skanska Costain STRABAG (SCS), Camden Council, and the Euston Partnership
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• 120 colossal beams installed on a 14,500-tonne box structure which will carry HS2 under the A46 Kenilworth Bypass
• The huge box is currently being built on land next to the A46, rather than beneath the carriageway itself, which significantly minimises long-term disruption

• Figures show progress made on tunnelling, viaducts and earthworks as construction advances on 140-mile route 
• HS2 Ltd’s new Chief Executive prepares for a "fundamental reset” of the programme to address its serious cost challenges
• Significant year ahead for HS2 – including completion of two more twin-bore tunnels – just as Britain prepares to mark bicentenary of the railways
• Downloadable images of the railway's construction available on HS2 Ltd's website

• TBM Sushila has reached Green Park Way, breaking through underground into a reception can in a complex engineering operation
• The Northolt Tunnel will take HS2 trains from West Ruislip, on the outskirts of the capital, through to HS2’s Old Oak Common station in West London.