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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nStrabag will start work on HARP next year replacing six tunnel sections totalling 50km along the 110km aqueduct route running through Cumbria and Lancashire.<\/p>\n
The contractor is working in joint venture with Skanska and Costain on HS2\u2019s London tunnels section where work is also expected to get underway next year.<\/p>\n
Strabag also expects construction to ramp up again in 2027 at the North York Moors Woodsmith potash mine site after a slowdown and project review following Anglo American\u2019s takeover of the scheme.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nUK headcount has hit 1,426, including more than 600 directly employed skilled operatives.<\/p>\n
Strabag UK managing director Andrew Dixon said: \u201cThe UK now operates as a \u2018core country\u2019 in the Strabag group and from 1 January 2025 became one of the thirteen divisions that make up the entire group.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis highly significant recognition underlines the group\u2019s long-term commitment to grow the company to become one of the UK\u2019s market leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHe added that the firm is now building up a new regional building unit in the West Midlands, aiming to expand nationally in industrial and data centre work.<\/p>\n
The year also saw Strabag complete a ground engineering job and an exploratory tunnel for SSE in Scotland.<\/p>\n
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