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Posted on Mar 29, 2023

LISTEN UP to HS2’s “How to Build a Railway” podcast featuring Simon, Thomson’s Director

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Episode 4 of the HS2 “How to Build a Railway” podcast is out now and fetures Thomson’s Simon Mackrell, Director of Business Operations.

In this episode, “Creating the Green Corridor”, they explore how HS2 protects, replaces and improves the green spaces that will run alongside the railway.

Simon explains how our ecology and habitats teams help to shape the green corridor by undertaking baseline ecology surveys, creating new habitats for biodiversity and monitoring and managing the new ecological mitigation sites.

Listen online by following this link.

Or listen on podcast platforms by searching “How to Build a Railway”.

Pond creation ecological mitigation site
Pond created by Thomson’s Habitats team in a HS2 ecological mitigation site
Badger sett ecological mitigation site
Badger sett created by Thomson’s Habitats team in a HS2 ecological mitigation site
Hibernacular pile created by Thomson’s Habitats team in a HS2 ecological mitigation site
Wildflowers enhancing biodiversity in a HS2 ecological mitigation site created by Thomson’s Habitats team
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