Charlotte Fernández
UKIMEA Press Office,Leeds
HS2 has taken a major step forward with the deposition of the Bill for phase one of the country’s new railway between London and Birmingham.
The hybrid Bill, effectively the planning application for the scheme, will secure the powers to construct and operate Phase One of HS2.
The Bill, titled the ‘High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill’ is the largest and most complex hybrid Bill ever produced in the UK. Arup has been responsible for a significant proportion of the work behind the Bill including: the designs and bill submission documents for Euston Station; the route through Birmingham metropolitan area, including Birmingham Interchange Station, Birmingham Station (Curzon St.), the Depot and tunnels.
The Bill includes the largest ever Environmental Statement (ES) produced in the UK. Arup was responsible for the complex West Midlands section of the ES. In addition, Arup acted as the Environmental Overview Consultant, responsible for creating the critical, route-wide assessments including noise and vibration, socio-economics, climate, health and equalities impact, the Code of Construction Practice, setting the route-wide technical standards, visualisations, and coordinating the planning and production of the entire 49,000 page suite of Environmental Statement documents to accompany the submission to UK Parliament. Arup has been assisted by URS, Grimshaw, Wilkinson Eyre and Costain.