{"id":31996,"date":"2025-08-24T21:37:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/watch-giant-hs2-bridge-move-complete-ahead-of-schedule\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T21:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:37:57","slug":"watch-giant-hs2-bridge-move-complete-ahead-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/watch-giant-hs2-bridge-move-complete-ahead-of-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch giant HS2 bridge move complete ahead of schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The huge span was moved during night-time road closures \u2013 moving between 18 and 24 metres every night using a special skidding system \u2013 ensuring that the road has remained open during the day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Huge HS2 bridge move completed in Birmingham ahead of schedule\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w7S98BMJS1o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the first day of the move on 15 August, the team \u2013 helped by favourable weather conditions, were able to get ahead of programme, meaning the road will be back to normal today instead of the planned full reopening on Monday 25 August.<\/p>\n<p>HS2\u2019s Head of Delivery for the Curzon Approaches, Greg Sugden said: \u201cThis is a fantastic achievement for the team, and the culmination of two years\u2019 work including detailed design, planning, construction and delivery of this highly technical launch operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the first steel structure to be put in place for the one mile stretch of viaducts on the approach to Birmingham Curzon Street Station \u2013 a pivotal part of the high-speed railway now starting to take shape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Georgios Markakis, Project Manager at Balfour Beatty VINCI said: \u201cThis is a proud moment for my team, who have worked hard to deliver this impressive feat of engineering. Through careful planning and expert support from our supply chain, we were able to deliver the operation much quicker than planned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only have we successfully delivered a milestone feat of engineering on the HS2 project, we\u2019ve also been able to get the road back to normal early \u2013 which is good news for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather than building the bridge in situ, disruption to road users was drastically reduced by constructing the steel span on land next to Digbeth Canal over the last two years. On 15 August 2025, heavy lifting engineering experts Mammoet rotated the bridge 90 degrees using two self-propelled modular transporters (SPMTs).<\/p>\n<p>Over the following four nights, a skidding system \u2013 with a jacking push\/pull mechanism, was used alongside the SPMTs to move the structure into place across Lawley Middleway. This combination of techniques is rarely used and is a first for BBV on the HS2 project.<\/p>\n<p>Lawley Middleway bridge forms part of the railway\u2019s approach to Birmingham, with high-speed trains travelling out of the west portal of the 3.5 mile Bromford Tunnel at Washwood Heath and onto a one mile stretch of five connected viaducts \u2013 Duddeston Junction, Curzon 1, Curzon 2, Lawley Middleway and Curzon 3 which links onto the platforms of Birmingham Curzon Street Station.<\/p>\n<p>Now at peak productivity, work will progress on this section of the railway with the second Bromford Tunnel breakthrough, Curzon 2 viaduct move, first Duddeston Junction Viaduct move, reopening of Aston Church Road, demolition of the old Aston Church Road bridge and start of construction of the new Saltley Viaduct \u2013 all set to happen over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/08\/22\/watch-giant-hs2-bridge-move-complete-ahead-of-schedule\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The huge span was moved during night-time road closures \u2013 moving between 18 and 24 metres every night using &#8230; <a title=\"Watch giant HS2 bridge move complete ahead of schedule\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/watch-giant-hs2-bridge-move-complete-ahead-of-schedule\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Watch giant HS2 bridge move complete ahead of schedule\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}