HS2 awards £3bn of track contracts

The winners are:

Monitor Techniques, Heaps 1, 2 & 3

Ferrovial Building / BAM Nuttall JV

Ferrovial BAM will oversee the design and development of the HS2 monitor infrastructure, handle development logistics and help the testing and commissioning part.

The work covers the route from Previous Oak Frequent to the terminus at Birmingham Curzon Avenue. It consists of the design and development of the Infrastructure Upkeep Depot at Calvert, the interface with Washwood Heath Rolling Inventory Upkeep Depot and the everlasting connection to the prevailing rail community at Handsacre Junction.

Switches and crossings and pre-cast slab monitor forming the HS2 monitor system might be delivered via current contracts with Voestalpine and PORR UK – with the Monitor Techniques contractor coordinating the design, logistics and set up. Rail might be provided via Community Rail.

Overhead Catenary Techniques (OCS)

Colas Rail Restricted

Colas Rail might be chargeable for the design, manufacture, provide, set up, testing and commissioning of the Overhead Catenary Techniques (OCS).

Operational Telecommunications and Safety Techniques

Siemens Mobility Restricted

Siemens might be chargeable for the design, manufacture, provide, set up, security authorisation, testing, commissioning and preliminary upkeep of the state-of-the-art operational telecommunication methods and the route large safety methods. Spare capability on the optical fibre community may be bought to 3rd get together suppliers to assist increase broadband entry for extra remoted rural communities.

Third Celebration Telecommunications

Hitachi Rail GTS UK Restricted and Telent Expertise Companies Restricted JV (TTJV)

TTJV might be chargeable for the design, manufacture, provide, set up, security authorisation, testing, commissioning and preliminary upkeep of the methods, which can present the cell communications for purchasers to make use of, in addition to the emergency providers and the station knowledge community.

Command, Management, Signalling & Site visitors Administration (CCS&TM)

Siemens Mobility Restricted

As an alternative of conventional colored lights, HS2 will use a digital Command, Management, & Signalling (CCS) and Site visitors Administration (TM) system that may help quicker and extra frequent providers.

Siemens might be chargeable for the design, manufacture, provide, set up, supervision, inspection, security authorisation, testing, commissioning and upkeep of the CCS & TM methods till handover to trial operations in addition to ongoing technical help providers of the CCS & TM methods.

Engineering Administration System

Siemens Mobility Restricted

The digital engineering administration system will allow distant supervisory management of railway property and methods by key operational and upkeep personnel permitting the UK to run among the world’s most dependable, protected and environment friendly high-speed rail providers.

Siemens might be chargeable for design, manufacture, provide, set up, integration, testing, commissioning and upkeep of an built-in Supervisory Management and Knowledge Acquisition (SCADA) resolution that might be used throughout the entire community – and as much as 25 years of technical help.

This may allow the standing of HS2’s operational railway property and methods to be monitored and managed in actual time from the Community Built-in Management Centre in Birmingham and different key places, facilitating each the protected operation and dependable upkeep of the railway.