HS2 uncertainty means Keller hasn’t booked it as ‘sure business’, chief admits

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Ground engineering specialist working with McAlpine and Kier on tunnelling schemes in Chilterns

Keller has admitted that it has not counted its work on HS2 in its order book because it doesn’t know whether the scheme will go ahead.

The firm, which is the world’s largest geotechnical contractor with annual revenues of around £2bn, has been working on the central section of the London to Birmingham route.

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