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• Deep Soil Mixing reveals how recycling methods cut costs and reduced HS2’s carbon footprint
• Soil testing was undertaken at the firm’s R&D laboratories in Stafford and Bedfordshire
• 1,000 lorry movements eliminated from roads in the Midlands as a result

Businesses in the North East of England are being encouraged to bid for millions of pounds worth of upcoming contracts supporting the delivery of Britain’s new railway, HS2.

HS2 today began the search for a specialist contractor to deliver the high-tech monitoring systems that will enable remote supervisory control of railway assets and systems by key operational personnel allowing the UK to run some of the world’s most reliable, safe and efficient high-speed rail services.

Nineteen-year-old Lisa-Marie from London is defying gender biases. As a civil engineering apprentice helping to build Britain’s new railway, she’s flying the flag for women and girls working in the construction sector to mark International Women’s Day (8^th March 2021).

Women aiming to get back into employment after a career break, or who are looking for a new start, are encouraged to consider a career on board Britain’s new railway, HS2.

• The plans represent the biggest single landscape and habitat creation project within HS2’s Green Corridor programme
• The project will contribute towards a localised net gain in biodiversity within the Colne Valley
• 127 hectares of new chalk grassland, woodland, wood pasture and wetland habitats to be created
• 65,000 trees and shrubs of 32 species, and 3.5km of new hedgerows to be planted
• New CGIs released showing what the area will look like: https://visual.library.hs2.org.uk/p/share/c9U8W40fCuR0