How to Build a Railway

HS2’s Learning Legacy Podcast is a five-part series exploring the Learning Legacy programme. HS2 is one of the most complex and challenging railway scheme the UK has ever undertaken. As such, it has been generating vast amounts of data across the board. Every geological survey, every design, every site, every environmental survey, all generating more and more data. So with all this data, what do you do with it? The final episode of the Learning Legacy Podcast looks at how HS2 has been using thei

HS2’s Learning Legacy Podcast is a five-part series exploring the Learning Legacy programme. HS2 is focused not only on safety, but on overall health and wellbeing on all employees and contractors. Identifying long term risks to wellbeing is a challenge within any industry. It’s a particular problem on construction sites, where people often move between projects and sites. Episode 4 dives into some of the innovations and technology being implemented across the project. From monitoring site worke

HS2’s Learning Legacy Podcast is a five-part series exploring the Learning Legacy programme. HS2’s place within the current climate and environment has always been its top priority. Once operational, the British-built bullet trains will provide zero-carbon journeys between the UK’s two largest cities, Birmingham and London. Episode 3 explores how HS2’s railway assets have been designed from the start with climate change resilience in mind, as well as utilising waste clay from tunnelling, and how

HS2’s Learning Legacy Podcast is a five-part series exploring the Learning Legacy programme. Design not only encapsulates the creativity and innovation of new products, but is the main source of information for construction to take place. Episode 2 of the Learning Legacy Podcast takes a look at the design stages of stations and tunnel portals and encapsulating the importance of finding new methods of work and finding the opportunity to answer questions when there isn’t much existing research out

HS2’s Learning Legacy Podcast is a five-part series exploring the Learning Legacy programme. The concept of the Learning Legacy programme has been around for longer than you might think. Starting at London 2012, collating and sharing knowledge, innovation, good practice and lessons learned from major projects has developed in a number of ways to get to where we currently reside. In this first episode we’ll take a look back at other major projects and their approach to knowledge sharing., and we’

HS2’s Learning Legacy Podcast is a five-part series exploring the Learning Legacy programme. Each episode focuses on different approaches which represent an opportunity to raise the standards of engineering, design, innovation and safety. Find out more about the HS2 Learning Legacy Podcast: https://www.hs2.org.uk/ Find out more about HS2’s Learning Legacy Programme: https://learninglegacy.hs2.org.uk/