BAM Brings BIM to the Building Site 5 | BAM Nuttall 150 Years 6

Magazin of Royal BAM Group nv, volume 12, number 4, Winter 2015

Remarkable terminal

The public transport terminal in Arnhem, the Netherlands, will be opened on 19 November. A joint venture, involving BAM Bouw en Techniek and Ballast Nedam, delivered this remarkably shaped building, designed by UNStudio. The infrastructure work near the terminal, including the square for the trolley buses, is in its ﬁ nal stages. BAM Infra is involved with this work. www.arnhemcentraal.nl•

| Silence is golden in Soho 3 | BAM brings BIM to the building site 5 | BAM Nuttall 150 years 6

BAM WORLD Winter 2015-04.indd 1 09-11-15 16:47 Hospital Stuttgart Swimming near the Clyde

4 All aboard Borders Railway In January 2016, BAM Deutschland Once ocean liners were built here – now will start work on an €88 million it is a swimming and sports complex. On 5 BAM brings BIM to the building site project to refurbish Stuttgart’s the banks of the River Clyde in Clydebank, Silence is golden municipal hospital. The project Scotland, BAM Construct UK is building 8 Imperceptible transformation in Soho 3 involves the construction of a a futuristic complex with baths, a sports 8 Amazing feat new six-fl oor main building, three hall, fi tness centre, dance studio, and 6 4 Grand opening basement fl oors and a connecting catering facilities. The project, with 6 Research hall. The project is scheduled for a contract value of £22 million, BAM Nuttall facility completion by the end of 2018. will be ready in early 2017. opened 150 years 2 Hospital Stuttgart

7 The green thumb of T3

In Shape to Start! From the Board BAM’s CEO pointed out that the theme ‘In Shape to Start’ means assessing the activities and working Moving in the right direction environment before each shift. This should happen again during The world is changing at an ever-increasing pace ... and so is BAM! each different work activity That’s also refl ected in this new design of BAM World. during each day. We value the opportunity to share with you all the impressive ‘We are all each other’s safety work that BAM colleagues are achieving. Our clever solutions, coach, so help your colleagues to our commitment to health and safety, new technology ... that’s All construction sites and offi ces stay alert and make safety a topic how we can make a difference as this edition of BAM World is focused on safety on Worldwide for discussion’, he said. showing you. Safety Day on Tuesday 13 October. Van Wingerden also introduced We are defi nitely moving in the right direction. Our Back in Shape Many employees watched the video the special health and safety app. programme has made strong progress in many ways. For example message from Rob van Wingerden. After that the Safety Day three thousand people have been trained in our working capital programme was fi lled with programme! presentations, workshops Back in Shape remains our top priority for 2015 but we are preparing and/or toolbox meetings our strategy for 2016 and beyond. The new strategy Growing Together all over the world. will be proactive, concentrating on embracing new technologies and www.bamsafety.eu• areas where our leadership, scale and expertise align with attractive market opportunities. Back in Shape has strengthened and continue to strengthen our culture, simplify our structure and sharpen our processes. Let’s fi nish making that foundation for the future of BAM’s success in 2016 and beyond.

Rob van Wingerden, CEO

BAM WORLD Winter 2015-04.indd 2 09-11-15 16:47 Silence is golden in Soho

Working in tight sites in the largest capital city in the world is nothing new for BAM Construction in London but, nonetheless, each site brings its own special challenges. The team at 30 Broadwick Street in the heart of Soho are building a 95,000 m2 seven storey ofﬁ ce block with ground ﬂ oor retail outlets on a site surrounded by three narrow streets.

Soho is famously the home of many has to be edited.’ For senior site used to lay the glazed bricks, can Norris adds: ‘It’s interesting to small fi lm, editing and recording manager, Lee MacDonald, the only be laid in a temperature of be working in such a famous part studios, so managing noise is a £30 million project presents a more than fi ve degrees and rising, of London and to be delivering From the Board particular challenge. Assistant site varied array of technical challenges. so I am keeping a close eye on the a modern building that will add manager, George Norris, spends The building is sensitively designed weather as the year goes on and to the area but will also blend a great deal of time liaising with to blend in with three streetscapes praying for a mild winter.’ in with the old Soho.’• the neighbours. ‘We try to work which means three distinctive Overall, the programme is going a two hours-on two hours-off aspects to the facades using London well, according to MacDonald. Lee MacDonald (left) and George Norris. system so that they have periods brick and a variety of glazed tiles. ‘Our client Great Portland Estates when they know they can record ‘The lime based mortar which is know what they want. They can and edit soundtracks without the be demanding, but they are also risk of background noise. Also supportive and decisive when we we have accommodated special need them to be and are very requests where a longer fi lm good to work with.’

BAM WORLD Winter 2015-04.indd 3 09-11-15 16:47 Synergy Grand opening

The Grand Duke of Luxembourg recently ofﬁ cially opened the two tunnels on the Route du Nord (A7), north of Luxembourg City. The Grouft Tunnel and Stafelter Tunnel – 3,000 and 1,850 metres in length respectively – were constructed by a joint venture that included BAM Lux and Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau.•

All aboard Borders Railway!

On the day that she surpassed Queen Since its opening on 6 September, On time and within budget Victoria’s record as the UK’s longest- there have been more than The railway was completed earlier serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth 125,000 passenger journeys on the this year by BAM Nuttall, BAM Rail, opened the new Borders Railway. ﬁ fty kilometre long Borders Railway. and BAM Contractors, on time and On this special day, she travelled the Locals and businesses have already within budget.• route, from Edinburgh to Tweedbank, been beneﬁ ting from the new line, on a train pulled by the Union of which runs between Edinburgh, South Africa steam locomotive. Midlothian and the Scottish Borders.

BAM WORLD Winter 2015-04.indd 4 09-11-15 16:47 BAM brings BIM to the building site

Using an iPad, project engineers, stage further, and we prefer to call foremen, and carpenters working it Building Information Management. with BAM Woningbouw, will shortly This is about collecting and have online access on site to the 3D managing all the data from the models created by designers in BIM. model in a way that makes it ‘The BIM360 Field Autodesk usable for multiple purposes.’ It application will make it easier means, for example, that carpenters for colleagues on building sites’, can use the application to make their says Niels van der Werf, BAM delivery reports. ‘At present, a Woningbouw project co-ordinator. separate program, SnagR, is used for ‘At BAM, we have been using BIM this, but with BIM360 they now work (Building Information Modelling) in the same BIM model via the cloud.’ for some time. Every party works BAM Woningbouw joins other BAM with one single 3D model. With companies who are exploiting this BIM360 Field, we are going one technology.•

Project manager Klaas van der Zaag uses his iPad for the Summertime project in Amsterdam. Beside him Niels van der Werf.

Largest sea lock in the world

Rijkswaterstaat and the OpenIJ consortium have reached ﬁ nancial close for the contract to design, construct, ﬁ nance and maintain a new sea lock at IJmuiden to improve the accessibility of the port of Amsterdam. The OpenIJ consortium comprises BAM- PGGM, VolkerWessels and DIF. The contract value is approximately €500 million. Construction will commence Underground puzzle early 2016 with the new lock available for shipping at the end of 2019. is growing by the day

With two years more to go, the adding nine new escalators and excluded the groundwater from joint venture between BAM Nuttall seven new lifts, improving access the area. This project was an and Taylor Woodrow reached a to the National Rail station and early adopter of BIM where it major milestone in the expansion three hundred metres of new was used initially in the tunneling of Victoria Station when tunnels’, says BAM Nuttall’s project and grouting works and resulted construction of the new tunnels manager Steve Gray. in us winning a number of awards. was completed. Tunnel manager Ian Heath continues: The challenge when working in ‘The design and construction ‘We started in 2010 with preparatory close proximity to the existing contract, worth €470 million, works. We used jet grouting to station structure is a big one. BIM includes the construction of a stabilise the ground and form a very helps us to control our works and new North ticket hall, enlarging weak concrete. It gave us a stable build the client’s conﬁ dence when the existing South ticket hall, medium to tunnel through and working so close to his assets.’•

BAM WORLD Winter 2015-04.indd 5 09-11-15 16:47 Research facility opened Zero Harm

BAM Construct UK’s plant business – Northamptonshire-based BAM Plant – has achieved its third successive year with Zero Harm (no reportable accidents). BAM Plant was engaged on many of its most signifi cant jobs during that time, including the redevelopment of King’s Cross, Leeds Arena, and the National Indoor (now BarclayCard) Arena, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny operation, to which the new Birmingham. Jason Reed, director (formal title An Taoiseach) opened building was tied into. The BAM Plant: ‘Considering many the Transitional Research Facility solution was weekly meetings BAM Plant staff are involved in high (contract value almost €16 million) to discuss upcoming works risk activities, such as fabricating, at University College Hospital, and the development of lifting operations, moving plant Galway. method statements and traffi c around, driving the length and Pictured from the left: BAM Contractors completed the management plans which breadth of the country, and Building manager Luke Gibbons, Prime Minister Enda Kenny and four storey high building earlier were agreed and signed off working with electrics to name a BAM Contractors’ CEO Theo this year. The construction process by all parties prior to works few, this is a fantastic achievement Cullinane at the opening. had signifi cant challenges in terms commencing.• and sends a message about how of its proximity to the hospital in BAM does business.’• BAM Nuttall 150 years

BAM Nuttall hosted an event the event, which included a key note CECA introduced Michael Portillo. Steve Fox. at Drapers Hall, London, to celebrate speech from broadcaster and former After a very engaging presentation, its 150th anniversary together with politician Michael Portillo. which covered the history of UK customers, industry bodies and BAM Nuttall chief executive Steve Fox infrastructure, there was a very supply chain partners. Over provided the ofﬁ cial welcome while lively question and answer session. two hundred people attended Alasdair Reisner, chief executive of This event demonstrates the high regard that the industry has for the BAM brand and has helped Michael Portillo. in reinforcing the relationships between BAM Nuttall and the industry in general. 150 years of trading shows that BAM Nuttall is a sustainable business with a great future. Here’s to the next 150150 years!• 6

BAM WORLD Winter 2015-04.indd 6 09-11-15 16:47 Kieron Meade leads BAM PPP

Kieron Meade has been appointed as managing director of BAM PPP, with effect from 1 October 2015. He takes over the role from Richard Fielder, who is retiring after fi fteen years in charge of the PPP business. For Kieron Meade (third from right) the Infra News’ European Infrastructure Finance Summit, recently held in Amsterdam, was one of the fi rst conferences in which he participated as chief Richard Fielder was a founding of BAM PPP since 2009. He is joined executive of BAM PPP. director of the BAM PPP company on the board by Patrick Snippe and took the helm when the (fi nance director), who has been business was in its infancy with with BAM PPP for two years and only a handful of concessions with the Group for around under its control. Since that time seventeen years.• he has overseen the company’s growth to a point where BAM PPP now has over forty concessions in its portfolio. Kieron Meade has been with the Group for 24 years and has been a member of the management team at BAM PPP for approximately ten years and has been a director Richard Fielder. Kieron Maede.

The green thumb of T3

In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the BAM engineering team has found a sustainable and cost-effective solution to soft landscaping needs at the new terminal at Julius Nyerere International Airport.

Always up for a challenge, Tanzanian Native plants, fi t for the climate limiting our environmental BAM has left! As Kelvin says, civil engineer Kelvin Manaseh jumped By taking over the landscaping footprint. Importantly, through ‘I am up to the challenge’. at the opportunity to develop and and only using plants that are this innovative thinking, the cost grow over 70,000 plants by using indigenous to the area, and of the landscaping package has Recently BAM International has the cuttings of several mother thus not thwarted by the harsh been reduced signifi cantly.’ The received the instruction to proceed plants. The idea came about climate, BAM is able to ensure next challenge for the landscaping with phase 2 of the design and when tendering for landscaping their sustainability. Manaseh: team is to come up with an easy- construct contract of Terminal 3 subcontractors proved diffi cult ‘Sixty per cent of the soil is recycled to-use irrigation system, to keep with a contract value of over and expensive. from our construction work, further the airport beautiful long after €100 million.•

BAM WORLD Winter 2015-04.indd 7 09-11-15 16:48 People Up and coming talent Aberdeen-Inverness rail upgrade BAM Nuttall has been appointed principal contractor for the £170 million upgrade Linda van Leeuwen, concept that, on balance, they of the Aberdeen-Inverness line in Scotland. developer and project engineer consume no energy. The ﬁ rst phase is due for completion in at BAM Woningbouw, has been ‘Winning this prize 2019. voted the ‘Up and Coming Talent’ is fantastic. I see it as at the ‘Sustainable Construction an acknowledgement M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy Industry Woman Award 2015’ of my contribution to

in the Netherlands. She is closely the development of the The National Roads Authority and a involved with the development zero energy homes. That BAM PGGM Iridium consortium has reached and execution of the success is primarily due fi nancial close on the M11 Gorey to ‘Stroomversnelling’ initiative, to collaboration and to the Enniscorthy PPP project in Ireland. The €400 million project (total investment) where homes are renovated so team involved’, she said. • will involve the design, construction, fi nancing, operation and maintenance of 31.4 kilometres of dual carriageway and the design, construction and fi nancing of eight kilometres of single carriageway. Amazing feat Hinkley Point C

The new Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool school building in Antwerp, The Kier BAM joint venture, which formed Belgium, is now in use. Working with Campus Spoor Noord, to meet the needs of the new nuclear market, and was chosen to provide the Interbuild has achieved an amazing feat of engineering. The enabling works for Hinkley Point C new main building, for example, hangs eccentrically from the roof nuclear power station in the United construction, with a cantilever of no less than 27 metres. Kingdom, has agreed a £203 million The decorative white concrete crosses have a constructive contract in ﬁ nal agreed form, in order function. The building was designed by POLO Architects and to deliver the ﬁ rst phase of this key new nuclear project. Jaspers-Eyers Architects. The 36,700 m² complex contains spaces and facilities for 3,500 students on various study programmes, including computer science, nursing, and Hotel alongside Berlin Wall remains teacher training. • BAM Deutschland has won a €15 million contract for the construction of a hotel in Berlin, Germany. The client is project development company Am Postbahnhof GmbH & Co. The hotel has been developed Imperceptible transformation for MEININGER, an international chain of budget hotels. The seven to ten storey BAM Infra has recently modernised on it taking three years, but the There were also compliments from hotel will have the N261 road in the Dutch province project has been completed in BAM’s COO Erik Bax. ‘I have nothing 245 rooms and will of Noord-Brabant. Provincial eighteen months. With the grade but praise for the teams that worked be built alongside executive member Christophe separation and the on this project. That also Berlin Wall remains. van der Maat says: ‘BAM has done beautiful nature bridge, includes The project will be completed in mid-2017. an excellent job. We had planned the result is outstanding.’ co-operation with the local Erik Bax: environment, ‘My compliments!’ because that is crucial. From Follow us on where I live, in Den Bosch, I regularly pass this site, and it

was remarkable BAM World is compiled by Monica van Soldt, to see how quickly Royal BAM Group nv, Public Relations Department, P.O. Box 20, 3980 CA Bunnik, The Netherlands, the trafﬁ c situation telephone +31 (0)30 659 86 23, changed as the project progressed, e-mail [email protected] Photography Andy Buchanan, De Beeldredaktie, but without the trafﬁ c itself being Editpress, Getty Images, Joe Travers, John Zammit, hindered.’ Martin van der Steen, Neil Warner, Photoworkx_NL, • Toby Smith / Taylor Woodrow BAM Nuttall JV Design Boulogne Jonkers Vormgeving, Zoetermeer Printing MediaCenter Rotterdam

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