Newsletter of Royal BAM Group nv, volume 9, number 1, Spring 2012

River to cross

The of the supports has to stop during high water.

2012 will be the make or break 6,000-ton steel arch, which While Max Bögl will focus on ready, and work on the responsible for maintaining for BAM Civiel and Max Bögl, spans 285 metres, will be the steel construction activities columns is well past halfway. the bridge for 25 years. who are responsible for placed onto the two main for the main arch, BAM Civiel’s On the abutment side, the The contract value is designing and building a new pillars. During the operation attention will be on at the outer first cross connections approximately €140 million. bridge across the River Waal all shipping will be suspended. sections of the bridge, linking between the columns http://nijmegenstadsbrug.nl (eastern ). The exact moment will depend on the main arch to the river banks. have now been poured. At the end of the year the the water level and wind speed. The pad foundations are now The joint venture will be

Saying it for safety six thousand BAM employees Here is the first: filled in the Safety Challenge Alex Laureys, CEI-De Meyer: BAM’s Safety Challenge, which questionnaire. Many of them ‘In Belgium, deep trenches was part of international BAM came up with suggestions for are dug by hand during Safety Day last autumn, has further improvements to safety the construction of earth resulted in many useful safety in 2012. In the next few editions retaining walls. The tips. Corporate Safety Officer of BAM World, we will be briefly trenches have to be Geert van der Linde: ‘Almost highlighting some of these tips.’ accessible in several places, which means there are many gaps in the fences. The team has come Enlightening up with a flexible fencing system. The fences are fitted with colour codes, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh has reopened its doors which show what kind of to the public following major refurbishment work by BAM Construction. access and/or equipment The museum, which dates from 1889, has been completely renovated with a needs to be used at a new 48-person lift, a central corridor and education facilities. Some ungainly specific location.’ previous alterations were reversed, improving the natural light in the gallery. Group News The Netherlands

Virtual construction eliminate risk. Essentially you Amazing achievement Bunker for hospital build a virtual model of your BAM is introducing Building project before you start to BAM Utiliteitsbouw and BAM new building project, let Information Modeling build in reality. This means Techniek have completed the alone for a renovation. The (BIM) to help the that practical difficulties can be renovation and expansion of only approach when faced Group deliver a identified and resolved quickly the Monarch I office building with this kind of challenge is better service and efficiently before the actual in The Hague in just fourteen to integrate construction and to customers. build commences, saving on months. Considering the technology’, says Ria Phil Palmer, time and avoiding waste.’ building is also BREEAM Bonefaas, BREEAM Expert virtual Colleagues from the UK, Excellent, this is some at BAM Utiliteitsbouw. Both construction , Ireland, Belgium achievement! ‘We were operating companies have Concrete walls 1.5 metre thick, manager and the Netherlands will take aiming for BREEAM Excellent, now started preparing for with added basalt aggregate, of BAM part in regular web conferences the second-highest category Monarch II, new office are needed to contain the Construct UK: and workshops. One example of this sustainability rating premises that will be occupied radiation in the radiotherapy ‘BIM enables is the BIM Challenge, which system for property. Reaching by various BAM branches. bunker that BAM Utiliteitsbouw better design, was recently organised in this level is hard enough for a www.breeam.nl is building in Boxmeer (eastern more efficient Bunnik head office. Around Netherlands). ‘The mass density sequencing, fifty employees from different of the concrete in the walls and and helps to group companies spent three the floor, which is 1.95 metres long days working together thick, is one and a half times on creating a BIM model for that of normal concrete’, says a multidisciplinary project Peter Geurts, the site agent in Eindhoven. at BAM Utiliteitsbouw. ‘The bunker is eight metres high A BIM-model. and will be linked to the new Maasziekenhuis hospital, which we built, via a low Animal-friendly restaurant building.’ BAM Utiliteitsbouw will complete the project in June 2012, which is being carried out on behalf of the Ria Bonefaas. Institute for Oncology of the Radboud University.

Working with conviction

Organic milk, organic eggs, MSC-approved fish and a huge and enticing selection of vegetarian salads – just some of the animal- friendly items that have been on the menu at the BAM office restaurant in Bunnik since 1 January. ‘Ethical and responsible dishes of this kind are in line with BAM’s sustainable character. BAM and ISS Facility Services are picking up the extra costs of these products’, says Rienk Dijkstra, head of Facility Management at BAM who, together with ISS manager Geert Stradmeijer (right), The prison entry gate. served up the first bowl of organic soup. The former court building.

Fume-free fleet Techniek is carrying BAM Woningbouw and HD will be converted into out maintenance Projectontwikkeling will be apartments, residences for After acquiring environmentally work. Seventeen vans transforming Tuin van Noord, senior citizens and social friendly Nissan Leaf cars, BAM of this type have been a former court and prison amenities. The plan includes has now bought vans that run ordered through complex in Rotterdam into a car park and a new building entirely on electricity. BAM Athlon Car Lease. Like mixed housing, working on the site of the soon to be Techniek was recently the first the Leafs, they can be and leisure development. demolished remand prison. Dutch operating company to recognised from their The listed court building dates The garden around the prison become acquainted with the special lettering. The from 1899 and will largely keep will be rearranged as a park. Renault Kangoo ZE. This electric Kangoo ZE has a travel radius of areas. The acquisition of these its office function. The three Sales of the dwellings will vehicle has been used at the Ajax 170 kilometres and is particularly emission-free cars is in line with original cell wings of the star- start in 2013. The cells will Amsterdam ArenA, where BAM suitable for short trips in urban the Group’s sustainability policy. shaped prison complex (1872) remain in use until 2014. United Kingdom Belgium

Prize and praise ‘Clear, Connect and Complete’ Administrative centre in Ghent BAM Construction is making good progress building the new The Olympic Park Legacy Company has appointed BAM Nuttall to head offices of the Co-operative Group in Manchester. The help deliver one of the largest construction projects in Europe to curved outer walls of the lower floors are now windproof and create the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London after the 2012 waterproof and the highest point of the steel construction has Games. BAM Nuttall has won two separate contracts to deliver been reached. The Co-op will be moving in during the autumn £76 million worth of the work in the North Park and South Park of 2012. But even though it is not completed yet, the building areas. The construction work is expected to take up 18 months, is already winning awards. Architects 3D Reid, the client and although some sections of the Park will already be open to the BAM Construction, were awarded a prize at a recent building public from summer 2013. and innovation trade fair because of the way in which the Stephen Fox, Chief building meets the requirements for BREEAM Outstanding. Executive of BAM And it was declared the most sustainable building project Nuttall, said: ‘We Interbuild has started building the of 2011. are delighted with Vlaams Administratief Centrum the award of these (VAC) Oost-Vlaanderen in Ghent. two prestigious The project consists of a ninety- contracts that will metre high tower with 22 floors maintain our long and a low-level wing with four association with storeys. The building will be the Olympic Park situated above an underground site. These new 350-space car park, which also awards now has room for three hundred mean that we bicycles. The project, with a will be able to contract value of €43 million, utilise our will be ready by the end of 2013. specialist skills to create a Refreshing restoration permanent legacy.’ For centuries, the town of Spa in the Belgian Ardennes has been famous for the healing properties of its water, which contains iron and carbonic acid. The water emerges from hundreds of The Hub The first springs in and around the town. concrete beam In the town centre, Galère is BAM Design has secured full planning approval for The was laid at a restoring the historic Peter the Hub in Portsmouth. The £10.4 million striking, mixed-use recent ceremony. Great-well building, the best- community building spans a dual carriageway and is the known in Spa. The operating first phase of the proposed major regeneration of the company is restoring the complex inner city Somerstown area by Portsmouth City Council. for the town council, which will be The mixed-use scheme replaces outdated community using it to house an information facilities and includes a PCT medical practice, a local and culture centre. Working in housing office, a new community centre and a youth club. joint venture with the firm BAM Design is the concept architect and environmental Liégeois, Galère is responsible services engineer on the scheme working with structural for both the indoor and outdoor engineers AKS Ward and landscape architects Grontmij. restoration work. Construction will start in the summer of 2012 and complete by the end of 2013. The garden room with new terrazzo flooring.

Luton Dunstable Guided Busway

The £56 million guided busway scheme linking the towns of Luton and Dunstable has now reached the half way stage. The scheme will provide 7.5 kilometres of twin guided Busway with a further 2.5 kilometres of unguided busway, four kilometres of maintenance track and four kilometres of dedicated cycleway. The concrete guideway itself is made up from a total of 4,518 beams, which are six metres in length. These will form the three metres wide running lane when located on precast pad foundations. The project is due for completion in April 2013. Germany PPP

BAM Deutschland and Amber Heinle, Wischer und Partner. New ministry in Berlin have started work on the new PV panels are to be included on Federal Ministry of Education and the southern-facing outside, Research building on the River with other outdoor elements Spree in Berlin. The project has being made from recycled glass. been commissioned by the A special exchange system has DBFMO PPP German Government Buildings been developed for heating, project operational Agency. The contract for the cooling and ventilation in the design, construction, financing rooms. LED light will be used in and maintenance (for thirty years) the whole 54,000 m² complex. Zeughaus PPP AG, set up by has a value of almost €175 million BAM Deutschland is due to BAM PPP (87,5%) and Swiss for BAM. The design is in the complete the project in construction company Marti hands of Berlin firm of architects August 2014. (12,5%), together with BAM Deutschland, will complete Ireland the 2.5 years construction of Verwaltungszentrum Neumatt Green light for Brewery Quarter in Burgdorf, at the end of March 2012. With the takeover of the facilities by the Canton of Bern the 25 year operating phase of the first DBFMO- project in Switzerland starts. The 16,800 m2 complex will include three planning units, Going underground a prison (110 beds), a street inspection office, an Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau, operating in a joint venture, is making operation centre and an good progress with the construction of the seven-kilometre plus administration centre. The Silberberg tunnel in central Germany. After the digging, drilling and facilities management provision BAM Contractors and Heineken Ireland are to develop the €150 million explosive teams finally saw light late last year, it is now time for the includes utilities management redevelopment of the former Beamish and Crawford brewery in Cork. The concrete walls of the railway tunnel to be built. For this, an eighty as well as building maintenance plan includes a 6,000 seat event centre, cinema, retail, student apartments, metre long formwork carriage will be used until the spring of 2013. services, cleaning, waste viewing tower, restaurants, bars, and a conference centre. Also as part of It was recently moved into position using hydraulic platforms. The disposal services and catering. the plans, a museum containing old brewing equipment will be located tunnel is part of a new, more than one hundred kilometre stretch of The five new buildings with an within the 17th-century Counting House building. the ICE rail network between Erfurt and Ebensfeld. www.vde8.de investment of 150 million Swiss francs fulfill the high ecological Swiss standard Minergy P-ECO Arkady Bulk Feed Store Worldwide and will house over 450 staff.

BAM Contractors has started single carriageway port started in January 2012 construction of a single storey Bulk double surfaced and will take 24 months. People Animal Feed Store for animal feed road. In addition, Together with its Jordanian importer Arkady Feed. The facility one bridge will be joint venture partner MAG, Director business will be situated at the Port of Cork’s rehabilitated and BAM is responsible for the development deep-water berth in Ringasskiddy. three new bridges design and construction of The 150 by 60 metres feed store and a series four new berths (in total The Executive Board will have a storage capacity of of drainage approximately 800 metres has appointed 70,000 tonnes of animal feed. The structures quay wall), revetment works, Mr M. Von Devivere thirty centimetre thick in-situ floor will be built. a breakwater, marine services, as director business slab is supported on 1,500 pre-cast pontoons and a slipway. In development with concrete piles. External works Tanzanian road contract New port in Jordan addition land reclamation and effect from 1 February 2012. comprise of 5,000 m2 concrete dredging works (800,000 m3) as Max von Devivere (55) was yard including weighbridges, and Together with joint venture BAM International has well as the construction of two development director of other facilities. The €3.4 million partner Per Aarsleff, BAM been awarded a contract intake pipes and one outfall pipe Eurovia s.a., a subsidiary of project will be completed in International was awarded a to construct a new port is included in the scope of work. Vinci. He was responsible summer 2012. road contract by the Tanzanian in Jordan, approximately for industrial development office of the US-based 15 miles south of Aqaba, and technical resources and Millennium Challenge Account close to the border of managing director of Eurovia in 2010. The goal of the Laela- Saudi Arabia by Aqaba Services in Germany. Sumbuwanga road project is Development Corporation to wimprove traffic to and from (ADC). The contract value Tanzania’s agricultural western for BAM amounts to Soon available on the plains. Some 95 kilometres of approximately €50 million. trunk road will be upgraded to The construction of the new

BAM World is compiled by Monica van Soldt, Royal BAM Group nv, Public Relations Department, P.O. Box 20, 3980 CA Bunnik, The Netherlands, telephone +31 (0)30 659 86 22, e-mail [email protected] • Photography Ed van Alem, De Beeldredaktie, Thea van den Heuvel, Frank Jansen, Harmen de Jong, Sasja van Vechgel/heart4photography.com, Chris Watt • Design Boulogne Jonkers, Zoetermeer • Printing De Swart bv, Den Haag