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The construction programme was meticulously planned over four weekends, spaced across the summer months, with engineers working on all three structures at the same time to reduce closures.<\/p>\n
The final stages of construction can now commence<\/h3>\n
Engineers can now proceed to the final stages of construction \u2013 installing the remaining parapets along the sides of the Water Orton viaducts, and the final concrete pours on the twin box ready for railway tracks to be laid.<\/p>\n
Agnes Usciak, HS2\u2019s senior project manager, said: \u201cI\u2019d like to thank motorists and local residents for their patience during this huge programme of work \u2013 our biggest yet over the motorway network.<\/p>\n
\u201cSplitting a huge construction programme into four separate weekends requires meticulous planning, and our engineers executed the entire operation with pin-point precision, ensuring the motorway reopened on time, every time.<\/p>\n
\u201cStructural completion of the Water Orton viaducts and the twin box means the end is in sight for our bumper programme of motorway works this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next for the M42 bridge project?<\/h3>\n
In the coming days, Balfour Beatty VINCI\u2019s engineers will extend Water Orton 2 by a further 40 metres, closing the final gap above Gilson Road.<\/p>\n
The M42 will close again from 9pm on Friday, 23 October to 5am on Monday, 26th October, to install the viaduct\u2019s parapets on the sections directly above the motorway.<\/p>\n
Progress is also being made on other parts of the project with the platforms now in place at Old Oak Common<\/a>, the first \u2018green tunnel\u2019 complete and the Curzon 2 viaduct<\/a> on the approach to Curzon Street now in place.<\/p>\n HS2 engineers have lifted the last of six huge viaduct spans that will carry high speed trains over the M42 in the West Midlands, during a weekend closure of the motorway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":165922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172731],"tags":[473,579,928],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-165921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-projects","8":"tag-hs2","9":"tag-infrastructure","10":"tag-rail-network"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n