The Balfour Beatty Vinci JV has completed construction of a 25m-long and 18m-wide bridge deck for HS2 near Lichfield, Staffordshire.
The “marathon” operation involved excavating 14,000 tonnes of earth, building a 140m retaining wall and moving the 2,600-tonne bridge deck 130m into place under the South Staffordshire freight railway.
The work was carried out during a 10-week blockade. It was completed by HS2’s civils contractor in the West Midlands, Balfour Beatty Vinci, and designer Mott MacDonald as part of a Design Joint Venture with Systra, together with teams from 18 specialist supply chain companies.
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