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Steel sites make Heathrow expansion hub shortlist

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Heathrow has announced the names and locations of the 18 shortlisted sites that remain in the running to help deliver the expanded airport, signalling the project has reached a new and significant milestone on its path to delivery.
The shortlist includes three steel construction-related sites: British Steel in Scunthorpe, Severfield UK in Dalton, Yorkshire and Tata Steel’s Shotton premises in North Wales.

The sites have been selected from a longlist of 65, all of which were visited during a nationwide tour which concluded in the summer of 2018. The longlisted locations were then all invited to take part in a pre-qualification questionnaire which helped to determine which sites were best placed to be involved in the delivery of Britain’s largest infrastructure project.

In the autumn, the 18 sites shortlisted will have the opportunity to pitch to the airport’s bosses for their chance to become one of the final four construction centres, to be announced early next year, ahead of work starting in 2021.

The final four sites will become offsite construction centres that will help to deliver Britain’s new runway, bringing jobs and economic opportunities to every corner of the country as Heathrow looks to construct as much of the expanded airport offsite as possible.

This innovative approach will also help to make the project more affordable and sustainable – by transporting assembled components in consolidated loads.

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