Sixth HS2 innovation accelerator launched – Connected Places Catapult

Working in partnership with the Connected Places Catapult, the programme is looking to new and existing tech firms to suggest innovative technologies to speed up design, automate construction handover and strengthen the role of the circular economy during site decommissioning at a project’s end. Construction of HS2, which will link London and Birmingham, is now well underway. Once complete, it will almost halve journey times between Britain’s two largest cities and free up space for more local trains on the most crowded parts of the existing west coast mainline. The civil engineering programme is now at peak construction and over the coming years the project will start to transition into a working railway. The first phase of the line between west London and the West Midlands is due to open between 2029 and 2033.