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- VR 360 changing HSEQ training delivery and perceptions
- Virtual community engagement reached a wider audience with better results
- Using Train-Borne Lidar to improve design confidence in railway electrification
- Using 3D models and BIM for the Chiltern Tunnel Design
- Use of Sustainability Assessments (BREEAM and CEEQUAL) on the HS2 project
- Transformation of London clay into construction resources: Supplementary cementitious material and lightweight aggregate
- Transformation of London Clay into construction resources: Calcined London Clay (CLC) as Supplementary Cementitious Material (SCM) in concrete mixes
- Training supervisors for excellence now and the future
- Train fire spalling risk assessment
- Towards a Digital Blueprint: data, technology and collaboration at the core of HS2
- Thermal recycling
- The use of remote sensing to identify habitats on a large-scale linear infrastructure project
- The use of measuring-while-drilling to aid investigation of Mercia Mudstone and other weak rocks
- The slowest part of HS2 - The design of HS2 automated people mover
- The cutting edge (a resilient plant procurement strategy supporting HS2's Green Corridor)
- Test pile design, construction and testing – maximising the benefits of preliminary pile test results in pile design and construction at Euston Approaches
- Temporary Works awareness course for designers
- Temporary access road optioneering and cost analysis
- Technical process improvement through a systems based approach
- Technical evidence for a non-technical audience
- Technical Assurance / Quality Assurance / Handover process from Early Works Contracts to Main Works Civils Contracts
- Supporting London's homeless community
- Super MIDP (Master Information Delivery Plan)
- Streamlining utilities ground movement assessments
- Streamlining design coordination: connecting High Speed Two to the West Coast Mainline
- St Mary’s Church: demonstrating the limitless possibilities and value of on-site archaeological public engagement in construction projects
- Special segment design for cross passages and shaft passages
- Soils, Landscape and Woodland: How HS2 is using integrated asset information management in a BIM environment.
- Simplification and automation of design process for HS2 viaducts drainage elements
- Shallow TBM launch of the Northolt Tunnel West TBMs at West Ruislip
- Shaft friction design for piles in extremely weak to weak Mercia Mudstone
- Setting up sites for inclusion
- School Engagement - Noise risks
- Saving in lime use for soil stabilisation
- Saving in Ground Granulated Blastfurnace Slag (GGBS) and alternative tests for high sulfate mixtures
- Safe borehole casings reductions for instrumentation and monitoring installed in cuttings
- Safe at Heart: establishing an inclusive and safe culture for our employees
- Route-wide contamination risk assessment modelling in support of a sustainable earthwork material reuse framework
- Rethinking inclusive public toilets for HS2: Research evaluation and design to set an exemplar standard and best practice to meet the needs of multiple user groups
- Rethinking fire emergency means of escape design for disabled people at HS2 stations using a bespoke rapid modelling tool
- Resilient river landscapes – River Cole realignment: mitigating climate change through landscape design
- Remote working employee ‘buddy’ scheme
- Reducing the risk of falls from height through design and selection of demolition methodologies
- Reducing the impact of temporary works on third party assets
- Reducing the impact of diverting a 42-inch water main
- Reducing impact to local residents during foundations removal
- Reducing emissions in construction: Non-road mobile machinery retrofit
- Redesigning the management of hazardous noise - enhancing worker hearing health
- Real-time virtual site tour system
- Re-use of excavated materials
- Raising standard of lifting operations across smaller contractors
- Railway drainage design in constrained environments. A case study in the vicinity of HS2 Birmingham Interchange Station
- Rail infrastructure interface collaboration & joint working benefits for major capital projects
- Quantifying risk hours to assess safe working systems
- Project specific display screen equipment assessment including remote working
- Programme management techniques and tools for complex hybrid Bill submission
- Predicting sound levels generated by jet fan ventilation systems in tunnels
- Powerful forces: electric plant and supply chain collaboration
- PowerBI and its use in performance management reporting
- Planning for waste minimisation and resource efficiency in HS2
- Planning for a smooth and finite transition
- Planning and managing utilities on HS2 (High Speed 2)
- Physical testing of noise barriers to validate an airborne noise model for a high speed railway
- Pass-by noise assessment of high speed units by means of acoustic measurements in a perimeter close to the train
- Overcoming the challenges associated with the design of noise barriers for High-Speed Railways
- Organising qualitative data into asset databases to standardise reports and improve BIM practices
- One Team – One Voice – Adopting a winning attitude through collaborative working
- Occupational Health & Wellbeing: additional site vigilance during Covid
- Oak Processionary Moth - a health risk to working in wooded areas
- Monitoring the quality of surface water during the HS2 Enabling Works, Area South
- Monitoring completion health to drive performance and provide scheduling certainty
- Mitigating the effects of tunnelling under Euston Bridge 7
- Minimising carbon emissions at HS2 Phase One Stations
- Minimisation of spoil to landfill from a collaborative approach to re-use on site
- Mathematical modelling of cross passage spacing in tunnels
- Materials by Rail (MbR) to HS2 on-site stockpiles
- Managing uncertainty in ground conditions in design on a megaproject where ground investigation is highly variable
- Managing properties, managing risks - good practice
- Managing Occupational Health risks in archaeology
- Managing leavers to mitigate the impact to project delivery
- Management of completion and handover
- Management of acoustics integration on HS2 for delivering environmental commitments
- Love for Life: Preconstruction Injury Free Environment
- Looking further to fill our hard-to-fill vacancies
- Leveraging Lifetime Cycle Assessment (LCA) for smarter carbon reduction
- Leading advances in Level 3 Self Certification
- Landscape led earthworks on major infrastructure projects
- Landmark and passenger experience study
- Kudos for all
- Investigation of the behaviour and the design for piles subject to ground heave
- Investigating differences between life cycle assessment tools on major infrastructure schemes
- Integrated design development of the Colne Valley Viaduct
- Innovative use of drone technology for Enabling Works surveys
- Innovative passive smoke control in Copthall Tunnel
- Innovative Logistics: Construction Consolidation Centre – HS2 C1 ALIGN
- Innovative ground data management
- Innovative approach to CDM coordination
- Innovative and Sustainable Twin Arch Solution for High Speed Two Green Tunnels
- Infraworks models to assist with construction sequencing and planning
- Incorporation of digital ground investigation data and geological model into the 3D BIM environment
- Improving security welfare sees reduction in incidents
- Improving infrastructure delivery through better use of standards
- Improving dynamic risk assessments through digital application
- Improvements for the design and operation of demolition hanging screens and curtains
- Implementing remote site inspections
- HS2 Woodland Trust Engagement Portal – Enabling effective and efficient stakeholder engagement
- HS2 track alignment change process through collaboration
- HS2 railway, UK–the hybrid bill
- HS2 railway, UK–route development to the hybrid bill: the environmental statement
- HS2 railway, UK: route optioneering
- HS2 railway, UK – why the country needs it
- HS2 railway, UK – the parliamentary process
to Royal Assent
- HS2 railway, UK – route development to hybrid bill: consultation
- HS2 railway, UK – route development to hybrid bill: a collaborative approach
- HS2 Railway, UK - route development to hybrid Bill: Technical and operational requirements
- HS2 project creates and updates British Standards and guidance to improve delivery
- HS2 Phase 2b historic environment heritage asset database
- HS2 Phase 2b Environmental Statement Management through progressive assurance
- HS2 Interchange Station: An exemplar project for integrating safe by design principles
- HS2 Interchange Station – Innovative Roof Design: An exemplary project on Integrated Design Team collaboration and the use of advanced Digital Workflows
- HS2 design approach to green infrastructure
- HS2 back to better programme-Building organisational resilience post COVID-19
- HS2 Area North Route Map Tool
- High Speed Rail 2 ( HS2) G2S green tunnels fire design assessment review
- Health risk assessment programme
- Health and safety by design: managing risk on Enabling Works
- Health & safety improvement: safety culture management
- Ground Heave in Deep Cuttings: Evolution From Generic to Specific Models to Enable Refinement of a Risk Management Strategy
- Great crested newt licensing for major infrastructure projects: shifting the paradigm
- Grassland translocation – successes and solutions
- Fully digital and paper-free office
- Flexible working – Introducing structured tools to work flexibly
- Female Advocates in Rail (FAIR) Network
- Ethical Construction
- Establishing best practice whole-life carbon baselines for Phase One of HS2
- Environmental surveys management – digital innovation
- Environmental management: supply chain engagement
- Environmental DNA surveys for great crested newts - time for regulatory changes?
- Enhancing the observational method through digital innovation
- Engineering for archaeology during major infrastructure programmes
- Embedding Health, Safety, Security and Environmental Management (HSSE) into land and property pre-possession planning
- Embedding core values through the Exception Performance Awards
- Embedding circular thinking in a major UK infrastructure project
- Eliminating harm using exclusion zone technology
- Eliminating and managing risk associated with site security access gates
- Dust Suppression Trials – reduction in fugitive dust emission from construction site haul roads using water additives
- Driving efficiency and sustainability in material reuse through GeoBIM
- Digitising the permit-to-dig process
- Digitising the chain of custody for Rebar: CARES Cloud
- Digital mapping of environmental significant effects on HS2 Phase 2a
- Digital in transit concrete monitoring system
- Development of the Streethay Cutting Design: From Retained to Open Cut
- Development of practical approaches to predicting flow-induced sound from termination devices in large-scale railway tunnel ventilation systems
- Development of an improved noise prediction model for HS2
- Designing with landscape maintenance in mind
- Designing and assuring the UK’s largest ever human remains reburial programme
- Design optimisation and challenges with the deepest shaft on HS2
- Design of shafts and tunnels to decouple the construction programme
- Design of Chiltern Tunnel South Portal
- Design of Chiltern Tunnel and ventilation shaft interfaces
- Delivering the Safe at heart transformation plan for the Stations Team
- Delivering major highway works at Birmingham Interchange Station for the HS2 Phase 1 Enabling Works Contract - lessons learnt from design
- Delivering first line of defence assurance – embedding a design team as a ‘Critical Friend’ within the contractor team
- Delivering a climate change resilient railway
- Decarbonising the EWC
- Decarbonisation construction activities - electric piling rig
- CSjv approach to land quality, materials and waste
- Creating the HS2 Learning Legacy
- Creating a legacy through social value
- Control of hand and arm vibrations on HS2 and beyond
- Construction stage geo-data collection, reporting and visualisation – digital workflow
- Construction dust: improving industry best practice
- Consents - small steps, big change
- Comparison of predicted versus actual ground settlement during tunnelling
- Community Resource Information Support Platform (CRISP) - an online marketplace for sharing resources
- Communicating impactful works to stakeholders and communities
- Colne Valley Western Slopes: maximising habitat creation within a large infrastructure project
- Colne Valley Viaduct – developing a successful specimen design
- Colne Valley Viaduct foundation design
- Collaboration approach between CSjv and HS2 on EWC South
- Clean Air Gas Engine (CAGE): reducing emissions by replacing diesel power in construction
- Chiltern Tunnel cross passage durability design – response to challenges
- Carbon dioxide management in a major UK infrastructure project
- Capturing operational lessons learnt through focused workshops
- Building and sustaining a health and safety brand that connects everyone to being Safe at heart
- Broadening our horizons: implementing the Historic Environment Strategy for HS2 Phase One
- Bridging the gap between drainage design and BIM modelling
- BREEAM Infrastructure
- Birmingham Curzon Street Station: A 21st Century Station Roof
- Benefits of steel-concrete bridges with double composite action
- Being a good sustainable neighbour
- Becoming a disability confident employer
- BBV's carbon reduction journey towards the 50% reduction target
- BBV behavioural programme 'Safe at heart’
- Automation process for the delivery of Design Element Statement Reports
- Automation of soil-structure interaction finite element modelling using Python coding and the project BIM model
- Artificial badger sett design
- Applying temporary works processes to barrier systems
- Ancient woodland soils translocation
- An automated digital method for the assessment of crosswind safety for the HS2 route
- An approach to manage the uncertainty of groundwater baseflows in the design of drainage attenuation systems in HS2 Area North
- An alternative approach to demolition screens at Regent’s Park Estate
- Alternative fuels and additives in construction
- Align worker travel service
- Aerodynamic design of HS2 tunnels
- Advances in Engineering Survey Grid Transformations for Rail Infrastructure
- A simplified model for calculating the insertion gain of track support systems using the finite difference method
- A new standard for health and well-being: HS2 quiet spaces technical specification
- A guide to HS2’s environmental assessment of transport impacts
- 360-degree trial pit photography
- 12-week look ahead schedule during construction
- 'Quiet Days' improve productivity and mental health
