The Skanska, Costain and STRABAG (SCS) joint venture (JV) brings together an industry-leading combination of tried, tested and successful partnerships, world-wide high-speed rail experience and extensive national and regional knowledge.
About the JV
HS2 is a state-of-the-art, high-speed line critical for the UK’s low carbon transport future. It will provide much-needed rail capacity across the country, and is integral to rail projects in the North and Midlands – helping rebalance the UK economy.
Skanska Costain STRABAG Joint Venture (SCS JV) are working together to deliver HS2 along the final 26.4km of HS2’s journey to its southern terminus in Euston. The JV will complete challenging works taking the railway from Northolt to Euston via Old Oak Common, building a variety of structures requiring expert precision and care. As 95% (21km) of the route will be in tunnel, SCS will be running seven tunnel boring machines (TBMs), of which five will operate simultaneously.
Our experience
Not only have the individual companies delivered high speed rail, major infrastructure and some of the most iconic structures internationally, the joint venture also has a proven record of working together.
Skanska and Costain have a long history of successfully delivering civil engineering projects together in the UK, dating back 30 years. In joint venture they have delivered many major infrastructure projects, including the M25 in the 1980s, High Speed 1 in the early 2000s and the current Crossrail endeavour coming to completion under the streets of London in 2018.
STRABAG and Skanska have worked together for over 15 years on European projects in Switzerland, Slovakia and Norway.
Our values
Love for life
We care and take responsibility for the well-being of the HS2 family, our people, our families, and the communities and environment in which we all live and work. We are safe at heart, working safely or not at all.
One team spirit
We work collaboratively as one team towards a common goal. We build trusting relationships. We celebrate diversity in our team, recognising and rewarding our people.
Leadership
We empower all our staff to lead by example. We are what we do, not just what we say. We will create a high performing environment where our people feel engaged and motivated to do their best work.
Passionate about excellence
We are committed to supporting each other to do things right first time in everything we do. We strive to continuously improve and capture best practice and learn lessons. We are open to new ideas. We work with our people and our supply chain to innovate and embrace new technology.
Act with integrity and respect
We act with integrity and show respect for each other. We hold ourselves to account and always do the right thing. We create an ethical and open culture. We are mindful of our actions and consider their impact upon others. We resolve conflict by acting flexibly, listening and being open-minded.
About the partners
The Skanska, Costain and STRABAG (SCS) joint venture (JV) brings together an industry-leading combination of tried, tested and successful partnerships, world-wide high-speed rail experience and extensive national and regional knowledge.
Skanska, established in 1887, is one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups. Operating around the world in selected markets in Europe and the US, Skanska is listed on the Stockholm stock exchange and headquartered in Sweden’s capital city.
Our £1.7 billion UK operation is one of the country’s top construction and development companies. It is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build for a better society. Known for working on major projects, such as the Gherkin, the M25 and Crossrail, we are building, upgrading and maintaining the country’s infrastructure for future generations.
Drawing on our Scandinavian heritage, we are green, innovative and progressive. We bring together people and technology, as part of our objective to make construction a safer and more collaborative industry.
Our purpose is to improve people’s lives by delivering integrated leading-edge smart infrastructure solutions to meet national needs across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets.
We help to safeguard the security, increase the capacity, improve customer service and drive efficiency in our clients’ infrastructure programmes.
Our expertise in the integration of technology, consultancy, asset optimisation and complex delivery positions us at the forefront of a rapidly changing market environment.
We are committed to operating our business both sustainably and responsibly. We are focused on one simple but powerful message – ‘Costain Cares’. This is not a slogan: it is an attitude of mind. It is integral to everything we do and a touchstone against which we can evaluate and measure our performance. We care about all our stakeholders.
Experience, competence, quality, innovation, sustainability – these are the keys to success of STRABAG International for the realisation of large international construction projects.
The STRABAG Group’s international activities executed by its subsidiaries STRABAG International GmbH and ZÜBLIN International GmbH comprise Transportation Infrastructures (roads, railways, airports and test tracks for the automobile industry), Building Construction (turnkey construction, industrial facilities) and Civil Engineering (bridges, dams, hydraulic asphalt engineering, tunnelling, pipe jacking and microtunnelling, cooling towers and harbour facilities).
Both international units are part of the strong network of STRABAG Group covering the entire value chain in the construction industry. We offer tailored solutions meeting our clients’ individual requirements – professionalism is our top priority from technical execution to economic efficiency.
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