Innovation

RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT

Align is focused on delivering best value to our major infrastructure clients. This is achieved through our individual and combined commitment to research and development. In the past five years, we have collectively invested over £150m on innovation in equipment, plant, technology
and methodology.

OPTIMISED DESIGNS

Align has an in-house technical design capacity of over 750 design professionals. They provide expertise in construction methods, constructability and integrated life-cycle design. By partnering with infrastructure design specialists such as Jacobs and Ingerop, we are able to focus on the end user by 'designing in' their needs and expectations.
In so doing, we mitigate the impacts of the construction process before
we even step on site.

TRIED AND TESTED INNOVATIONS

Some of the recent innovations we have successfully implemented are shown below.
These include an innovative consents-mapping tool that has been developed specifically for HS2 by our design partner, Jacobs.

TBM INNOVATIONS

Our latest innovation involves the introduction of robots operating within the tunnel boring machines
to help illuminate the requirement for manual intervention.