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HS2’s construction partner for Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, Align JV, is offering young people who are out of work the opportunity to kickstart their career on Europe’s biggest infrastructure project.

• HS2 becomes the first UK construction project to use fully electric giant crawler cranes
• Three electric cranes have arrived on HS2 sites in London, supporting HS2’s drive towards net zero carbon
• The emissions-free Liebherr cranes are supplied by UK company Select Plant Hire
• Images available here: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/environment/reducing-carbon/uk-s-first-giant-fully-electric-cranes 
• Video available here: https://youtu.be/GKLS6QM6Xco.

• Download new photos of viaduct construction and the new pre-cast factory
• Download and embed a new video explaining how HS2 is building the UK’s longest railway bridge

• HS2 Minister Andrew Stephenson confirms record 825 new apprenticeship starts on the project
• New landmark apprenticeship standard also launches today following HS2’s partnership with the Society of Land Referencers
• Investment in future talent continues as HS2 and its construction partners search for more career movers and new starters to join the project

• Over 400 burials uncovered in Roman Cemetery
• Buildings excavated and artefacts uncovered indicating a bustling Roman town

• HS2 gained Schedule 17 approval for the Automated People Mover (APM) in 2020
• Realignment designs, created in partnership with the Urban Growth Company to support regional growth plans, now submitted to Solihull Council
• New landscape plans include environmental features in the public realm
• Images available here: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/construction/the-midlands/interchange-station/automated-people-mover