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• 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

• Project boss celebrates the past twelve months of work on the UK’s new high speed rail line as it nears peak construction

• Mark Thurston “From the depositing of the Bill to take HS2 to Manchester, the first breakthrough and then complete end-to-end of an HS2 tunnel, and fantastic progress at all four phase one station sites; 2022 has been a year of immense progress on Britain’s landmark infrastructure project”

• See the very best pictures from HS2 construction sites in 2022 here: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/construction/end-of-year-milestones-2022