Skanska completes £450m enabling works at Euston Station
Skanska has completed £450 million enabling works for London Euston station in preparation for HS2.
Skanska has completed £450 million enabling works for London Euston station in preparation for HS2.
HS2 Euston station must be reset yet again after initial cost estimates were found to be “completely unrealistic”.
Work on the 7.2 km tunnel between Euston station and Old Oak Common station will not start in 2024 as initally planned.
HS2 may not terminate at Euston in London after all and the cost of that project has nearly doubled to £4.8 billion since 2020.
A former Lendlease boss and ‘regeneration expert’ is set to lead the Government’s London Euston regeneration.
Once complete, the high-speed rail line will transport passengers between London Euston and Birmingham in under 50 minutes.
HS2 Limited and the Department for Transport have six months to explain to the taxpayer their ‘mismanagement’ of the national infrastructure project.
The civil engineering firm secured two more contracts under Thames Water’s AMP7 Conditional Allowance Trunk Main Schemes.
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak confirmed the cancellation of construction of the northern phase of HS2 during his Conservative Party Conference speech in Manchester.
Fresh controversy about the major infrastructure project unfolds.