{"id":91502,"date":"2021-04-06T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T12:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=91502"},"modified":"2021-04-06T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T12:04:34","slug":"balfour-hs2-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/balfour-hs2-contract\/91502\/","title":{"rendered":"Balfour Beatty secures \u00a352m environmental HS2 contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.balfourbeatty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Balfour Beatty<\/a> has been awarded a \u00a352m contract on behalf of HS2, to deliver environmental works across the route from West Midlands to Crewe<\/h2>\n<p>The contract has been awarded through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/innovative-construction-framework\/79587\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SCAPE Framework<\/a>, to which the company was appointed as sole contractor in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Balfour Beatty will create a number of new environmental habitats along the 64-kilometre section of the infrastructure project, including woodland and wetlands.<\/p>\n<p>Having launched its sustainability strategy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balfourbeatty.com\/media\/318683\/balfour-beatty-building-new-futures-sustainability-strategy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Building New Futures<\/a>, last year, this latest contract award supports Balfour Beatty\u2019s bold and ambitious targets of going beyond net zero and positively impacting more than one million people by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>The award follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/phase-2a-of-hs2-to-crewe\/88935\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royal Assent in February 2021<\/a> for the latest 36-mile section of the railway, which will open with HS2\u2019s first section to provide seamless low carbon high-speed services between Crewe, West Midlands and London and link to the mainline for direct services northwards.<\/p>\n<p>At peak construction, the project will employ a workforce of over 200 people as well as a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/hs2-recruitment-campaign\/88697\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">graduate and apprenticeship positions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Protecting the environment<\/h3>\n<p>Mark Bullock, chief executive officer of Balfour Beatty\u2019s UK Construction Services business, said: \u201cBalfour Beatty\u2019s contract with HS2 builds on our &#8216;Building New Futures&#8217; strategy through which we\u2019re committed to leaving a lasting positive legacy for the communities in which we operate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work on the route between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/phase-2a-of-hs2-to-crewe\/88935\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crewe and the West Midlands<\/a> will build a better, greener future for everyone \u2013 through our ongoing and essential work to protect the environment, and our continued focus on providing employment opportunities for local businesses and people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HS2 Ltd phase 2a delivery director Colette Carroll, added: \u201cWe said that we wanted to bring the benefits of HS2 to the north earlier than originally planned, and this early environmental works contract with Balfour Beatty on the new route to Crewe will put that promise into action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreating new wildlife habitat and compensating for areas that will be unavoidably affected by the new railway is a crucial early stage in building HS2.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And we have an ambition to go further by seeing how we might help environments to support a greater range of flora and fauna than was there before the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Early works are already underway with completion scheduled in Spring 2023.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balfour Beatty has been awarded a \u00a352m contract on behalf of HS2, to deliver environmental works across the route from West Midlands to Crewe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"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":[304],"tags":[547,619,676,658,279,473,579,947,639,280],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[172945],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-91502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-apprenticeship","8":"tag-balfour-beatty","9":"tag-construction","10":"tag-electrical-contractors","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-hs2","13":"tag-infrastructure","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-procurement","16":"tag-transport","17":"stakeholder_rel_tag-balfour-beatty"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Balfour Beatty secures \u00a352m environmental HS2 contract<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Balfour Beatty has been awarded a \u00a352m contract on behalf of HS2, to deliver environmental works across the route from West Midlands to Crewe\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/balfour-hs2-contract\/91502\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Balfour Beatty secures \u00a352m environmental HS2 contract\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Balfour Beatty has been awarded a \u00a352m contract on behalf of HS2, to deliver environmental works across the route from West Midlands to Crewe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/balfour-hs2-contract\/91502\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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