Construction Safety • Topical Commentary
site including student engineers and apprentices. There are already 25 new apprentices from Warwickshire working with them and their supply chain, representing 7% of total new apprenticeships. They have also been working with stakeholders in Warwickshire to develop their Job Brokerage Model, due for launch in 2021, an initiative to showcase the vacancies being created by the delivery of Phase One of HS2. At present a list of HS2 job opportunities can be found at: shorturl.at/fioH6 Across Warwickshire, 82 businesses are supporting the delivery of the project, over 80% of which are SMEs, from sectors including construction training, builders’ merchants, forestry, electrical suppliers and labour providers. They are actively promoting supply chain opportunities to businesses in Warwickshire through partners that include Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce, Coventry and Warwickshire LEP (Growth Hub), West Midlands FSB and Kenilworth Chamber. A few Fast Facts There are 100 bridges, 35 viaducts, 36 cuttings and 70 bridge structures on this part of the route and BBV are also building the Bromford Tunnel. Works on a Green Tunnel located south of the Long Itchington Wood South Portal will also begin later this year. At the peak of construction covering the whole of →
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