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Flannery Plant Hire has joined forces with HS2’s construction partner EKFB (a team made up of Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial Construction and BAM Nuttall), to create a new training centre that can upskill local people ready for jobs on HS2 in as little as two weeks.

• HS2 Ltd reveals new designs for the Aston Church Road Overbridge, creating better views for pedestrians, enhanced lighting, improved connectivity and active travel provision with cycle access

• Native woodland planting will also create wildlife havens and connectivity in the city’s industrial heartland

• HS2 have incorporated feedback from local residents in the new designs: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/construction/birmingham-viaducts/aston-church-road-overbridge 

HS2 Ltd today announced this year’s winners of a competition to share insight from Britain’s largest construction project with the wider UK infrastructure industry.

HS2 is proud to be making a difference by commissioning the Royal British Legion Industries (RBLI) to make temporary signage for its construction sites across an 80km section of the new railway between the North Chilterns and South Warwickshire.  

• First of approximately 1,800 freight trains arrives at HS2’s new Quainton railhead, near Aylesbury, in a move designed to save carbon in construction

• Download new photos of the first train arriving on site this week

Thirty three youngsters from the West Midlands will take their first steps into the world of work this week as they begin their T-Level industry placements on HS2.