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• Designed and manufactured by British company AJC Trailers Ltd, and supplied by National Hire Company GAP Group, the new solar and hydrogen powered cabins are being rolled out across HS2 construction sites, already cutting over 100 tonnes of carbon
• To welcome the innovation, HS2 Minister Andrew Stephenson visited an HS2 site in West Ruislip to see the cabins in use

As part of its ambition to build the most sustainable high speed railway in the world, HS2 contractors in London have begun using a new low carbon concrete product which provides a reduction of 42% in CO₂ in comparison to a standard concrete.

• Preview of the unseen footage is available here: https://visual.library.hs2.org.uk/p/share/7c8UCMdIdmQx 

• Relocations follow long history of London reburials at Brookwood cemetery

HS2 has passed another major milestone at the high speed rail project’s first tunnel site, with the completion of structural work on the temporary pre-cast factory which will produce wall sections for the 10 mile long Chiltern tunnels.

As part of HS2’s plans to reduce its carbon footprint, a new carbon and cost estimating solution powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being trialled on a number of HS2 sites managed by the Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture.