HS2 team starts on UK’s first double composite viaduct – video

The first of 38 French-made steel beams that will be used to construct the UK’s first ‘double composite’ structure viaduct have arrived at HS2’s Wendover Dean site in Buckinghamshire.
Manufactured by Eiffage Metal 560 miles away at a specialist facility in France, each of the 25m long steel beams are being transported on the back of extra-long lorries to the Buckinghamshire site.
Engineers have come up with the innovative design to create a lower carbon structure than tra