{"id":76066,"date":"2016-11-15T10:04:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T10:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=382634df47b9ed0371bf1e612bb107c3"},"modified":"2016-11-15T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T10:04:44","slug":"press-release-hs2-names-enabling-works-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=76066","title":{"rendered":"Press release: HS2 names Enabling Works contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The \u00a3900m Enabling Works Contracts cover the whole of Phase One, from London to Birmingham and the connection to the West Coast Mainline at Handsacre, with work due to begin in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>The following joint ventures will be appointed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Area South &#8211; CS JV (Costain Group Plc, Skanska Construction UK Limited)<\/li>\n<li>Area Central \u2013 Fusion JV (Morgan Sindall plc, BAM Nuttall Limited, Ferrovial Agroman (UK) Limited)<\/li>\n<li>Area North &#8211; LM JV (Laing O\u2019Rourke Construction Limited, J. Murphy &amp; Sons Limited)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As well as archaeology, site clearance and establishing site compounds, the contractors will also deliver a range of activities including utility diversions, ecology surveys, demolition, ground remediation, watercourse activities, highways realignments, monitoring and instrumentation, structural reinforcements and drainage work.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"jim-crawford-hs2-ltd-managing-director--construction-said\">Jim Crawford, HS2 Ltd Managing Director \u2013 Construction, said:<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s announcement marks an important milestone as we continue to move towards the start of construction and the beginning of a challenging new phase in the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the coming years, our new partners will deliver the essential preparatory work we need to deliver the main construction programme on time and on budget, as well as creating jobs and training opportunities for thousands of people all along the route from London to the West Midlands and across our UK-wide supply chain.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_2357\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Press and media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">For enquiries during office working hours, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 6149\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">For enquiries outside of these hours and at the weekend<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 0550\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"comments\">The press and media enquiries line is for accredited journalists only<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HS2 took a step closer to construction today with the confirmation of three joint ventures to deliver essential early works \u2013 including archaeology, site clearance and setting up construction compounds \u2013 ahead of the start of the main civil engineering work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}