High Speed 2 will be the UK’s new £56 billion high speed railway. As Yorkshire Water’s Strategic Planning Partner, Stantec were tasked with assessing, analysing and developing mitigation solutions to all 400 impacts for inclusion into HS2’s Hybrid Bill submission to Parliament. The output of this Impact Assessment was an outline mitigation solution, a working area plot and a budget estimate for each asset.
Comments from the judging panel included: “When you hear that HS2 proposals will impact on 400 Yorkshire Water assets, from small supply pipes to a massive Victorian sewer under the proposed Leeds Station, you start to appreciate the immensity of coordinating a project of such magnitude.
“This thorough study, completed under tight time constraints, combined multiple data sets to evaluate and mitigate the risk to our county's water assets.”