An innovative project using continuous data feeds from hundreds of trucks, excavators, and other earthmoving equipment to boost efficiency and cut carbon emissions has helped one of HS2’s biggest contractors win a top sustainability award. EKFB – a joint venture made up of Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial Construction and Bam Nuttall – which is delivering some […]
HS2 yesterday named the teams that will deliver the high-speed rail project’s state-of-the-art track, signalling, communications, and other systems. The ‘rail systems’ contracts will be signed after the statutory 10-day standstill period. It will mark the beginning of a new stage for the project, that will see almost 140 miles of tunnels, bridges and earthworks […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
