A supplier of labour to the construction industry is celebrating winning a contract with HS2 which it says will create hundreds of jobs and bring thousands in economic value into the West Midlands.
Walsall-based Fortel Group, which supplies more than 2,000 staff to around 130 construction and infrastructure projects across the UK, has won a contract with the Balfour Beatty Vinci joint venture to work on a 60-mile stretch of the new high-speed rail line.
The so-called N1 and N2 phase of HS2 stretches between Long Itchington Wood Green tunnel east of Leamington Spa, across the Delta Junction at Water Orton and onwards north to Lichfield.
