DELIVERING HS2
In issue five of Finning News, our ‘Mine in a Line’ article looked at the scale of the HS2 project, which will see 60 million cubic metres of earth processed by a fleet of plant and equipment.
To find out more about the earthworks delivery for the project and the type of equipment that may be used, we caught up with Niall Fraser of specialist earthworks and construction contractor, C A Blackwell (Contracts) Ltd.
Niall – “HS2 is going to be a huge challenge for the construction and plant industries. It will be the largest programme of earthmoving for an infrastructure project in the UK since the completion of the motorway network in the 1980s.
“So from a UK earthworks sector perspective, there will need to be significant expansion and investment if we are to meet the timescales of HS2. By already outlining the scale of the project, the HS2 team has given the market the information it needs to digest and act upon, including the amount of earth to be moved and the increase in capacity needed.
EQUIPMENT LIKE THE NEW CAT 745C HIGHER CAPACITY ARTICULATED TRUCK COULD BE USED ON THE PROJECT
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