HS2 engineers finish UK’s heaviest bridge slide early

Engineers from HS2 main works contractor Balfour Beatty VINCI have slid a record-breaking 14,500-tonne concrete box under the carriageway of the busy A46 Kenilworth Bypass 30 hours ahead of schedule.
The colossal structure was pushed into place in just 10 hours during a precision operation that avoided two years of disruption on one of the Midlands’ key routes.Built to carry HS2 trains beneath the A46 on the approach to the new Interchange station near the NEC, the 42m-wide concrete box wa