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Monday, 27 June 2022

The Guardian

• Boris Johnson backs plans to close ticket offices as fresh rail strike talks loomRMT mulls future dates for industrial action as PM says it can’t be ‘business as usual’ on the railways

City AM

• Negotiation has failed: the defence Keir should have made for rail strikesThe rail strikes have finished, for the moment, and we can return to normal after the disruption. But we are promised a “summer of discontent”, with teachers and barristers next up to withdraw their labour. Disruption in public-facing services seems to be emerging as 2022’s leitmotif.
• Khan moves toward running London Tube on 100 per cent renewable electricitySadiq Khan will today begin the London Underground's transition to being carbon neutral as he opens London Climate Action Week. The mayor of London will today launch a Power Purchase Agreement, with the first tender spent on ensuring “10 per cent of TfL's required electricity from renewable energy sources” along with “new build assets”.

Birmingham Post

• HS2 reveals Washwood Heath depot designsPlanned facility in Birmingham will be used for storage, cleaning and maintenance of the new high-speed trains

Other Regional Press

• Hundreds of new jobs to be created at new HS2 West Midlands hubAround 550 new jobs will be created at the control centre and maintenance facility

Construction Enquirer

• Plans in for Cambridge North major mixed-use schemeThe Chesterton Partnership has submitted plans for a major mixed-use scheme on former railway sidings next to Cambridge North Railway Station.

New Civil Engineer

• HS2’s precast factory takes shape in WarwickshireHS2’s civils partner BBV (Balfour Beatty Vinci JV) has revealed the first images from its 550,000m2 construction compound in Kingsbury, Warwickshire, where concrete segments for the Delta Junction near Birmingham will be manufactured.

Other News Sources

• Network Rail launches tenders for £1.28bn capital works frameworksNetwork Rail has published contract notices for three frameworks for its North West & Central region, worth £1.28bn in total, which include structural and geotechnical engineering lots.