World’s longest box bridge slide on HS2

HS2 contractor Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) has completed a record box slide across a motorway in Warwickshire.
A site team of 450 slid a 12,600 tonne bridge a record 165 metres to position it across the M42 during the Christmas period.
The team worked around the clock to move HS2’s Marston Box bridge into place in an operation which took 40 hours, at a speed of 4 metres per hour.HS2 Ltd’s Civils Delivery Director, Mike Lyons said: “This is the first box slide of its kind over a