First viaduct steel section installed at HS2’s complex junction job

Belgian steelwork specialist Victor Buyck has jacked in the first 300-tonne steel viaduct section on HS2’s complex Delta Junction project.
Working for the Balfour Beatty Vinci JV, it took the firm 11.5 hours using push-pull jacking to install the 84m long section.It is the first section of two 158m viaducts which will take high speed trains over the M42/M6 link roads in North Warwickshire.
Before the end of this year, a similar two-stage operation will move the identical ‘West Link V