Learning Legacy Podcast: Episode Two – The blueprint and the real thing

How to Build a Railway

HS2’s Learning Legacy Podcast is a five-part series exploring the Learning Legacy programme.
Design not only encapsulates the creativity and innovation of new products, but is the main source of information for construction to take place.
Episode 2 of the Learning Legacy Podcast takes a look at the design stages of stations and tunnel portals and encapsulating the importance of finding new methods of work and finding the opportunity to answer questions when there isn’t much existing research out there.
Featuring:
Giles Thomas - HS2 Integration Director
Kim Quazi - ARUP Lead Architect
Fernando Ruiz-Barberan - ARUP Building Envelope Team Associate
José Marquez Santoyo - ARUP Architecture Lead
William George - Jacobs Senior Engineer
Darren Carter - Jacobs Senior Associate Director
Lee Canning - Jacobs Senior Associate Director
Giles describes his role in connecting the teams creating 140-miles of track, 4 state-of-the art stations, two depots and 32 miles of tunnel together, and what HS2 has taken on board from London 2012 and Crossrail to make its Learning Legacy programme most beneficial for the industry.
Kim, Fernando and José take a deep dive into the new Interchange Station, and how cloud-based data sharing allowed for a new way of sharing revisions for major infrastructures gave a new meaning to ‘going back to the drawing board’.
William, Darren and Lee talk through the design process for the largest porous portal in the UK and documenting the challenges and collaboration with external experts in a paper will give other designers a head start when new tunnel portals are built.
Find out more about HS2’s Learning Legacy Programme at: https://learninglegacy.hs2.org.uk/