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Ten formerly unemployed London residents are starting the new year having secured full-time jobs helping to build HS2, Britain’s new zero carbon railway.

• HS2 is hosting over 20 events on some of its busiest construction sites as part of Build UK’s ‘Open Doors 2023’ programme.
• The site visits give young people and career changers an opportunity to see behind the hoardings and consider a career in construction.
• The visits will be held during one week in March. Bookings are now open: https://opendoors.construction/#search

University students who live, or study, in the Midlands are being offered the chance to join HS2’s construction partner Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) on an eight-week paid work placement this summer.

An aspiring engineer from Nigeria is climbing the career ladder and helping to build Britain’s new railway after being handed a one-off opportunity by Bachy Soletanche, a specialist geotechnics contractor working on HS2, with Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering.

Talented graduates have just two weeks left to apply for one of 40 places on HS2 Ltd’s coveted two-year graduate training programme, which begins in September 2023.

• In a huge feat of engineering, HS2 Ltd has delivered the world’s longest box slide to move a 12,600 tonne bridge into place over the M42 in Warwickshire.
• The innovative method dramatically cuts disruption to road users and is part of HS2’s plan to reduce the impact of construction on local communities.
• 450 people worked on the operation during the Christmas week – the quietest time on the roads.
• WATCH dramatic footage of the bridge slide here: https://youtu.be/DxGd83rzcts