Tags: Eiffage

HS2 launches fast-track employment scheme for unemployed Bucks and Northants residents

HS2’s construction partner, Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial Construction and BAM Nuttall (EKFB), is launching an employment scheme to help local people who are out of work develop new skills and progress into paid employment. The first training programme aims to upskill candidates ready for work on Britain’s new railway in just two weeks, and there are […]

Foundation work begins on HS2’s carbon-saving Wendover Dean Viaduct

HS2 ground engineers have started work on the high speed rail project’s pioneering low-carbon Wendover Dean Viaduct, with an expert team sinking the first of more than 50 concrete piles that will form the foundations. Located south of the village of Wendover in Buckinghamshire, the 450m-long viaduct will be the first major railway bridge in […]

HS2 launches British Black Bee conservation project on World Bee Day

HS2 has partnered with the Great British Bee Project (GBBP) to support the expansion of colonies of the threatened British Black Bee along the railway’s new Green Corridor. HS2’s main works contractor, EKFB – a team made up of Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial Construction and BAM Nuttall, is working with GBBP to install around 14 hives […]

HS2 contractor EKFB awarded industry-first sustainability status

EKFB become first construction joint venture to achieve a new sustainability status developed by the Supply Chain Sustainability School The status recognises construction firms taking steps to lower emissions and cut carbon on their sites HS2’s main works contractor, EKFB – a team made up of Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial Construction and BAM Nuttall, has become […]