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• Images available here

• Images available here
• Local residents are invited to learn more about the headhouse at a virtual engagement event.

• Major engineering milestone completed this weekend (24-25 October), as a 45 metre, 914 tonne modular bridge was driven into place over the A446 in Solihull.
• Designed in a virtual world, the bridge took only 45 minutes to be driven into place.
• The A446 has been reopened 24 hours earlier than planned.
• Durham-based Cleveland Bridge manufactured and supplied 220 tonnes of steel girders for the bridge, while Expanded’s off-site manufacturing factory in Nottinghamshire provided 80 precast concrete modular abutment blocks.

• New video available here: https://youtu.be/mU91oNIazfs
• New capacity explainer animation available here: https://youtu.be/vyPQ87trCxI

HS2 Ltd - the company delivering Britain’s new high speed rail network - and Innovate UK – the UK’s innovation agency - have today (Wednesday 21 October 2020) teamed up to drive innovation on Britain’s largest construction project.  

The veteran pear tree in Warwickshire, named by locals as ‘The Cubbington Pear Tree’ will live on in the form of regrown saplings as part of HS2’s environment programme to support delicately balanced local ecosystems, and create bigger and more joined up habitats along the HS2 route.