From Scrap Yard to Trackside: An HS2 Steel Story

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Over the last two years, the UK steel industry has benefitted from a pipeline of orders worth over £170 million from HS2’s construction partners building the first phase of the new railway.
As the backbone to HS2’s two-decade construction programme, over one million tonnes of steel are forecast to be needed for standard construction materials and a further 200,000 tonnes for steel rail, switches and slab track - not to mention an additional 15,000 tonnes for the trains themselves.
Old car parts, radiators and shopping trolleys are being given a new lease of life in the construction of HS2, Britain’s new high-speed railway. The UK recycled steel initiative, which is helping HS2 to cut carbon in construction, is also supporting hundreds of jobs across the country.
Join scientist Fran Scott on a journey from a scrap yard in Rotherham to one of HS2’s construction sites in Warwickshire, as she meets the people and experiences the processes that are making all this happen. Along the way, she visits key sites operated by CELSA UK Steel, ROM Ltd and ROMTECH.
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@Ogrecrusher 10 ай бұрын

That's the thing when people talk about costs of these kinds of projects. The money doesn't just disappear, it's paid to businesses providing a service.

@ndewhurst1007 10 ай бұрын

Which, in turn funds employment of regular people and their families.

@sarahmeakin4132 10 ай бұрын

Sutton in Ashfield... her name isn't Daniella her name is Danielle, she's my oldest daughter and I'm beyond proud of her

@kensherwood4866 10 ай бұрын

Keep these videos coming, clear concise and so informative. Just look at the nationwide benefits coming form this project, jobs, and long term ones too created as well and extra rail capacity to relieve the WCML which as you mention is already one of the busiest in Europe.

@MsLancer99 10 ай бұрын

In Tunbridge Wells Kent when they knock down the old Kent & Sussex Hospital all the steel went for recycling and believe or not it was a big lorry load very day and just maybe some of that steel is now part of HS2

@robbiesonley 10 ай бұрын

cant wait 😁

@ryangrange938 10 ай бұрын

Its great to see where the money is going and we are building projects that support the UK industry and our jobs

@jasonking6892 10 ай бұрын

I don't mind new projects but 40 Billion over Budget so far Disgraceful 👎🇬🇧

@edwardtreadwell3859 9 ай бұрын

Mostly foreign jobs unfortunately.

@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg 4 күн бұрын

@@jasonking6892you're only saying that because the public have been influenced to think the budget price is the right price.

@10thdoctor15 10 ай бұрын

Recycling steel is great, and it's good to do it as much as possible, but that's all Electric Arc Furnaces can do. They can't reach the temperatures required to make new steel from raw materials.

@charlottelarimore9261 10 ай бұрын

If were gonna have a new high speed rail called high speed 2 who will be the rail operators running HS2.

@jermainetrainallen6416 10 ай бұрын

It will be whoever is running the West Coast Partnership when HS2 opens. Currently, it's run by Avanti West Coast but that may change by the time Phase One opens

@10thdoctor15 10 ай бұрын

5:28 Good to see the billets being dragged and scratched, that's not going to cause defects in the product(!)

@polpojliekwanjaroen3511 14 күн бұрын

Is that sarcasm? Cause ain't no way that would damage the steel.

@10thdoctor15 14 күн бұрын

@@polpojliekwanjaroen3511 It does. In Scunthorpe, blooms and billets are lifted so they are not scratched.

@polpojliekwanjaroen3511 14 күн бұрын

@@10thdoctor15 Maybe you're right. I'm no steel expert either, so sorry about that. But, is it possible that those steel would be covered by concrete and some minor defects won't be seen?

@10thdoctor15 14 күн бұрын

@@polpojliekwanjaroen3511 Depends what the billets get made into. Possibly. Even if they can't be seen, they're still stress raisers.

@kenstevens5065 10 ай бұрын

Yes electric arc and UK industrial electric prices are some of the highest in the world.Our steel industry is on the brink. We'll miss it when it's gone.

@richardfearn6638 10 ай бұрын

What an irritating presenter

@pedromorgan99 10 ай бұрын

came here to say same.. !

@RedKnight-fn6jr 10 ай бұрын

Agree - while the process of steel recycling is very interesting, all this green crap against cars and nonsense around net-zero (whatever that is) could be substituted with more detailed analysis on how they ensure that the recycled steel is free from any contaminants. For example, I say a trolley in the scrapyard with rubber wheels - those along with much other extraneous material would have to be separated and the remaining steel that is suitable for reproduction cleaned - none of that was shown. I actually watched this video to see that.

@Nick-ye5kk 10 ай бұрын

Couldn't they find an adult to present this?

@jasonking6892 10 ай бұрын

Didnt mention its 40 Billion over Budget so far👎🇬🇧

@philiphide 10 ай бұрын

A waste of good steel!

@mikenewtonninja9379 10 ай бұрын

that woman that was waffling on in the control room, the one doing rhe corporate speech.... she said low carbon steel 🤔 wont that be soft as shit? surely you want a high carbon steel, one with high tensile strength and hardness- low carbon steel would be rubbish for building big stuff.

@adea7480 10 ай бұрын

she meant embodied carbon.

@josschroeder 10 ай бұрын

Clearly she is referring to embodied carbon. Besides mild steel - standard structural grades - has pretty low % carbon anyway. Otherwise you end up with pig iron or wrought iron which is brittle and not very useful.

@CRIMSONANT1 10 ай бұрын

Haha .. what complete & utter nonsense - its anything BUT "low carbon" as HS2 Ltd themselves have stated & very little of the track will be "high speed" due to severe financial problems. The ballast to support high speed trains is literally too expensive therefore, "normal" ballast will be used on all but a short section of track & the trains will be lucky to travel much faster than inter City 125's. It's an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century & anyone with half a brain knows that "pausing" the B'Ham to Crewe line & Euston station for 2 years is just another way of saying "cancelling". Only 2 weeks ago, the first 2 phases were given a red rating & deemed "unachievable" by the government's own Infrastructure & Projects Authority .. a complete waste of money.

@ephphatha230 10 ай бұрын

nurse he's out of bed again!

@Stand663 10 ай бұрын

@@ephphatha230. Lol 😅😅😅

@scottpeacock5492 10 ай бұрын

Time for your medication i think, what loads of nonsense.

@JohnHoward-wc9kk 10 ай бұрын

I suppose you would rather the steel was imported from China, where it is made from freshly mined iron ore etc and the power to smelt it is generated from coal. Is it not good that there is an element of 'circularity' in the building of HS2 ?. is that not a positive ?

@thorley1969 10 ай бұрын

😂😂