July 2026
Align-D & Align JV Shortlisted for GE Geotech Awards
Photo credit: Align
We are delighted to announce that Rendel has been shortlisted for the Ground Engineering Geotech Awards 2026 in the category of Geotech Team of the Year.
The Align-D team, comprising Rendel, Jacobs and Ingerop, together with Align JV (Bouygues Travaux Publics UK, VolkerFitzpatrick and Sir Robert McAlpine), has been involved in High Speed 2 (HS2) Contract C1 since its inception in 2016, providing services across the full project lifecycle, including tender design, scheme design, detailed design, construction phase support and handover.
The Contract C1 works comprise 23.9 km of high‑speed rail infrastructure, including a 3.4 km viaduct (Colne Valley Viaduct), a 16 km twin‑bored tunnel (Chiltern Tunnel) with five ventilation and access shafts, 5 km of engineering earthworks, two highway overbridges, one footbridge and a green overbridge.
We look forward to attending the awards ceremony on 1st October in London.