High Speed Two (HS2): Infrastructure Design and Construction - Volume 3 Design and Engineering
The main construction of HS2, Britain’s new zero carbon, high-speed railway, began in September 2020, when delivery activity on Phase One moved from enabling works, scheme design and preparatory work to full construction of the railway. The new railway will link London and the West Midlands and eventually extend services to the North and Scotland. High-speed trains powered by zero carbon electricity will reach speeds of 225mph and transform journey times, while opening up capacity on the existing, conventional railway network.
This volume of High Speed Two: Infrastructure Design and Construction from the HS2 Project, contains a collection of papers submitted to HS2 Ltd’s Technical Papers Competition. Contributions have come from consultants, contractors, suppliers and third-party stakeholders involved in the delivery of HS2. As part of HS2’s Learning Legacy programme, the organisation seeks to share its learnings and best practices with the rest of the industry throughout the project lifecycle. This volume includes high-quality papers on best practice in planning, design, construction and management for large-scale railway infrastructure projects. It is divided into two sections: ground engineering (geotechnics, groundworks and earthworks) and structural engineering (bridges, viaducts, tunnels and underground structures).
For more papers from HS2 Ltd’s Technical Papers Competition, please see volumes 1, 2 and 4 of this series.
High Speed Two (HS2): Infrastructure Design and Construction - Volume 1
High Speed Two (HS2): Infrastructure Design and Construction - Volume 2
Foreword
Introduction
The HS2 programme
Part 1: Design and engineering geotechnics, groundworks and earthworks
1. Streamlining utilities “Ground Movement Assessments”, A GILL
2. Shaft friction design for piles in extremely weak to weak Mercia Mudstone, S Markvukaj, I Farooq, A O’brien, S Pye and M Vance
3. Comparison of predicted versus actual ground settlement during tunnelling, M M Torres
4. An approach to manage the uncertainty of groundwater baseflows in the design of drainage attenuation systems in HS2 Area North, P Souto, R Schofield, T Chung and C Howarth
5. Investigation of the behaviour and the design for piles subject to ground heave, R Yuan and T Storr
6. The use of Measuring-While-Drilling to aid investigation of Mercia Mudstone and other weak rocks, G Hughes and C Brook
7. Test pile design, construction and testing – maximising the benefits of preliminary pile test results in pile design and construction at Euston Approaches, P Tantivangphaisal, P Bailie, P Ingram, C Fisher-Vercoe and M Wisniewski
8. Route-wide contamination risk assessment modelling in support of a sustainable earthwork material reuse framework, T Hodges and I Bethell
Part 2: Design and engineering structures – bridges, viaducts, tunnels and underground structures
1. Mitigating the effects of tunnelling under Euston Bridge 7, A Carlucci, S Godden, A Barmi, B Cox, J Master, J Collins and A Damianou
2. Innovative and sustainable twin arch solution for High Speed Two Green Tunnels, E Smith and S. Psomas
3. Benefits of steel-concrete bridges with double composite action, P A Calvo, P Van Hagen and R Capra
4. Simplification and automation of design process for HS2 viaducts drainage elements, G Mahadev, A Syed, P Souto and S Ghanoun
5. Colne Valley Viaduct foundation design, A Dishington, S Reynolds, M Bevan, J Wang and P Gilbert
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