Media production company creates new jobs on back of HS2 contracts

A media production company has created three new jobs after securing work on HS2.

Hideaway Media (Time-Lapse Systems), based mostly in Stone, Staffordshire, is one of greater than 2,000 firms already working on the rail venture.

It gained its first HS2 contract in 2017, supplying website monitoring cameras and time-lapse know-how for the HS2 station website at Birmingham Curzon Street.

The 17-strong company has gone on to offer drone footage and provide HS2 contractors throughout websites in London, Warwickshire and the West Midlands.

Working on HS2 has additionally allowed the company to create three new full-time jobs.

Gary Kelsall, who set-up the company in 2007, stated: “HS2 is a major venture. I’ve seen first-hand the ripple impact of advantages it creates down native provide chains. These alternatives are significantly welcome given the challenges confronted by companies as a consequence of Covid 19 and HS2 has been an actual help for our enterprise.

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“Getting concerned within the venture has pushed the group to lift the bar on the work we do and has helped us to develop and get work on different tasks.”

Hideaway Media’s work on the venture consists of the end-to-end supply of time-lapse footage for some works on the HS2 venture.

In Birmingham, they’ve labored with HS2’s enabling works contractor LMJV, overlaying a website within the space of the town the place a HS2 depot is being constructed.

They have additionally labored with CSJV in London, capturing work going down in Euston Square and Camden as half of the enabling works there.

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Footage from the cameras was additionally used within the BBC documentary sequence, ‘Britain’s Biggest Dig’, which captured the archaeological works going down on the venture.

Using gear that produces 6K extremely excessive definition pictures, the company additionally gives on-line viewing portals which might be accessed remotely to trace and monitor, acquire pictures of ongoing work, assessment well being and security practices, and analyse workflow processes.

David Poole, HS2 Ltd’s business and procurement director, stated: “HS2 is already bringing substantial advantages to British companies working on the venture and Hideaway Media in Staffordshire is a superb instance. The Shear scale and complexity of HS2 signifies that we’d like companies each massive and small with a variety of experience to work with us.

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