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Helen Samuels heads up the ‘ultimate in civil engineering’ EKFB Joint Venture delivering the C2 and C3 sections of HS2 Phase One appoints MD
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ier’s Helen Samuels was promoted to the role of Managing Director of the Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial Construction and BAM Nuttall (EKFB) Joint Venture in January. EKFB has been appointed by HS2 Ltd to deliver civil engineering works across an 80km section of the new high-speed rail link between Great Missenden and Southam. Its scope of the works includes 15 viaducts, 6.9km of green tunnels, 22km of road diversions, 81 bridges and around 30 million cubic metres of excavation. Helen, a Chartered Civil Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), was Technical Director within Kier’s construction business from 2021. Rising star Prior to this she held senior roles in the built environment, including as Engineering Director for Network Rail’s £6 billion per year capital programme, where she also led the 700-strong multi-discipline design team. She was Engineering Director at United Utilities, where she created a new technical authority for full asset lifecycle, has also held the role of Managing Director for Water Europe for CH2MHill (now part of Jacobs) and, before joining Kier, was CEO of Bibby Marine. Helen said: “I’m not new to senior leadership and I’m used to running very big teams and being very passionate about people but this is a particularly enormous project in terms of the scale. This is the ultimate in civil engineering and I’m a heavy infrastructure girl.
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