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Pandemic helps Bam cut carbon emissions ahead of schedule The impact of the pandemic helped Bam Construct substantially reduce its CO2 emissions in 2020, the company has said, cutting emissions to 45 per cent below a benchmark set in 2015. The benchmark level was set in 2015 when Bam Construct gave itself five years to trim emissions by 25 per cent. It achieved that goal early, however, recording a 27 per cent cut by 2018, and further reductions thereafter. Bam Construct head of sustainability ...

The UK’s largest contractors claimed just over £10m in furlough cash in the three months to the end of February, new figures from HMRC have revealed. Analysis of HMRC’s furlough data found that the combined claims by CN100 contractors totalled up to £3.9m in February, up from a maximum of £3.7m in the previous month. In the three months to the end of February, companies in the CN100 had claimed up to £10m, up from £6.1m in the two months to the end of January. HMRC publishes monthly li...

Royal Bam profit boosted by UK projects Royal Bam chief executive Ruud Joosten Royal Bam, the Dutch parent company of Bam Construct and Bam Nuttall, has reported Q1 results showing revenue growth and improved profit compared with the same period a year ago. In a conference call, chief executive Ruud Joosten (pictured) cited government-led infrastructure projects in the UK as a key factor: “The majority of the growth came from activities in the UK at this moment in time,” he told analysts. R...

Bam names subcontractors on £250m Manchester arena Bam Construct has named its subcontractors on the new £250m Co-op Live arena in Manchester. It announced that around £150m of contracts have been handed to subcontractors with M&E works set to be carried out by Wates-owned SES Engineering Services. The steelwork, for which 9,000 tons of the material will be used, is to be handled by Severfield. Prater has won the contract for facade and roof works while Provectus will undertake excavation an...

Contractors draft plan to fightback against cyber-attacks on JVs BIM modelling is an area of construction that could be targeted by cyber-criminals A group of experts at major contractors is drawing up guidance for the industry to use to head off cyber-attacks while working in joint ventures. Royal Bam group director of cyber-security, Ian Hill, told Construction News that a group called the Chief Information Security Officer Forum is meeting regularly to work out how to contain the increasing...

Bam Construct appoints new Scottish boss Bam Construct has promoted Jim Ward to director of its Scottish division. Ward will take over from Bruce Dickinson, who has moved into a broader role at Royal Bam Group. The new boss of the Scottish business has been with Bam Construct for 40 years and worked on flagship schemes in the region including the V&A Dundee and Bam’s current Atlantic Square scheme. He was serving as a construction director before his promotion to a regional director position....

Plans for the UK’s largest ever film studio featuring one million square feet of studio space have been submitted for approval. Property consultancy Bidwells has put in the application to Hertsmere Borough Council in Hertfordshire for the complex that will include 21 stages and an extra 600,000 square feet of commercial space, across a total of 90 acres. The facility, called Hertswood Studios, will be built next to Sky’s £190m studio complex currently being built by Bam Construct if the pr...

Balfour and Bam among winners on £650m Scotland healthcare framework Balfour Beatty, Bam Construct, Graham and Kier are among the six contractors picked by Health Facilities Scotland for its new £650m framework. McLaughlin & Harvey and RMF – a joint venture between Robertson and FES – have also scooped places on the new NHS Frameworks Scotland 3, which will replace the current framework managing construction procurement for Scotland’s health service. Laing O’Rourke has missed out on t...

Royal Bam has set it sights on doing more work in the UK despite revealing mixed results for 2020. Its civil engineering operation, Bam Nuttall, made an

Bam Construct wins £30m hospital expansion Bam Construct has been picked to deliver a £30m expansion of the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro. The contractor will build a three-storey extension on the existing Trelawny Wing, which will include an MRI suite and a 24-bed haematology and oncology ward. Enabling works were completed last month and the main building phase will begin shortly. Subcontractors appointed so far include TClarke on the M&E, joinery specialist Luscombes and groundworks fir...