The Euston Skills Centre (ESC) is a key part of a 10-year meanwhile use project conceived to facilitate the construction of HS2 Euston Station.

The development incorporates the ESC as an integrated yet separate function to the operatives facilities and site accommodation, housed above the ESC and in the former Maria Fidelis school.
Combining the functions offers benefits to both the project and local community: training and employment requirements on site are inter-connected and offer opportunities like upskilling the construction workforce, new potential shared spaces for briefings and inductions, educational visits, and access to a new community space and garden for local residents. The ground floor of the building is solely given over to the ESC, with access through a new public park. The five storeys above ground level employ 216 12x3x3 metres off-site modular units to provide offices, canteen, showers, changing and amenities for the 2,500 site operatives and staff delivering the HS2 main station works. Access to the site accommodation is via the main HS2 site. The structural solution employs a traditional steel portal frame sitting on new innovative ground source Hyper Concrete Piles – a sustainable new hollow concrete pile employing ground source heat developed for this project.