Construction group Laing O'Rourke has won the £370 million brief to build the new HS2 Interchange station in Solihull. The company will now work with the team behind the high-speed rail line in two stages to finalise the detailed design and then build the station.
Interchange will be constructed on land 1.2 miles east of Birmingham Airport next to the M42 and will be connected to the airport, Birmingham International station and the NEC campus via a new automated people mover. Contracts will be signed after the completion of the standstill period.
It is one of four new stations to be developed as part of the first phase of HS2 between Birmingham and London - the others being at Euston and Old Oak Common in the capital and in Curzon Street in Birmingham city centre. The appointment of Laing O'Rourke comes as developers announced yesterday that a new planning application had been submitted for the car parks which will serve the new station, offering up to 7,000 new spaces.
