Environmental Sustainability
Management of environmental factors associated with delivering a project such as noise, air quality, bio-diversity, carbon footprint.
Environmental Sustainability Resources
Resources include papers, videos, research summaries and good practice documents produced by authors from across the HS2 Family to capture learning, good practice and innovation from the HS2 programme
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Artificial badger sett design
To mitigate for the loss of badger setts, closed due to construction of the scheme, over 30 artificial badger setts have been constructed across Phase One under a licence from Natural England. HS2 now have at least two years of monitoring for artificial setts and have reviewed data from both the design stage and post-works…
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Designing with landscape maintenance in mind
The HS2 project is delivering built infrastructure and natural environments on an unparalleled scale. The project affords a once in a generation opportunity to deliver nationally significant infrastructure that will respond to local landscape character and demonstrate an innovative and environmentally-sensitive design approach. The project has been developed to minimise it’s impacts on the surrounding…
