Newsletter of Royal BAM Group nv, volume 11, number 3, Autumn 2014

Somerstown Community Hub: iconic!

The new Somerstown that people living on both sides centre, a primary care trust Community Hub in of the road will have equal access and dental surgery as well Portsmouth, completed to the Hub. It enabled BAM to as the local housing offi ce, by BAM Construct UK this keep as much green space as an indoor sports hall and a summer, is iconic. possible and to preserve trees. café. The Hub has obtained The Supervisory Board has announced that Nico de Vries BAM Design designed a There are attractive piazza areas an Excellent BREEAM will hand over the chair of the Executive Board to Rob van tubular structure that spans at each end of the building. certifi cate, the second Wingerden. De Vries (63) will retire after a career of 38 years the bridge across Winston The three storey hub includes highest level of sustainability with the Group. Churchill Avenue. This means a community centre, a youth accreditation for buildings.

Nico de Vries: ’I have taken the decision to retire from the Executive Board with effect from 1 October. This will allow my ‘Fantastic achievement’ successor Rob van Wingerden to take complete responsibility for the actions to improve performance and lead the next phase An enormous green and in BAM’s development. Currently, we are preparing and orange cake was obviously implementing several programmes to improve BAM’s fi nancial one of the essentials when and operational results.’ the last prefab element was poured at the BAM Also the Supervisory Board has announced that Martin Rogers International precast yard in (58) will be relinquishing his Executive Board responsibilities Indonesia for the Wheatstone on 1 October 2014, following 40 years’ experience of the project in Australia. ‘Working industry, 35 years being with BAM, to pursue 24/7, we have produced other interests outside the company. Martin Rogers joined 442 precast elements in the company as an Engineer in 1979 and was appointed to seven-and-a-half months, the Executive Board in 2009. The Supervisory Board would including T-beams and cover The project consists of the like to thank Martin Rogers for his long service and dedication plates. That is a fantastic design and construction of a to the company. achievement when you 1.2-kilometre long jetty with a consider that we started six platform for the transshipment Rob van Wingerden (53) joined the Group in 1988 and months later than planned, of LNG, near Onslow (Western subsequently worked in various management roles in and have still managed to Australia). The BAM Clough the and abroad. Rob van Wingerden has been deliver on time’, said project joint venture will complete a member of the Executive Board of Royal BAM Group manager Nuno Teixeira to the the project – including all since 2008. concrete factory employees. the piping – by late 2016.

With effect from 1 October 2014 the Executive Board will be composed of Rob van Wingerden (chairman), Thessa Menssen (CFO) and Erik Bax (COO). UGroup News UIreland UBelgium

Safety Day 2014 tackles fi ve risks Sport for students ‘Floating’ hospital

On Worldwide Safety During the construction of day on 21 October, all unexpected locations; the new AZ Zeno hospital at colleagues in BAM are 5. Working near risk zones, Knokke-Heist, CEI-De Meyer being asked to focus on such as water and traffi c. has found itself continuously in the fi ve greatest safety The on-line safari game that was the clouds. The building’s four risks. These are the previously announced has been wings fl oat above the landscape. issues we need to tackle cancelled in line to assist with the ‘The patients will have a clear to improve the safety major programme to cut costs. view of the surrounding and wellbeing of Nevertheless, the most important BAM Contractors has, for greenery – studies show that everyone in BAM and focus of the day remains: mapping some years, been actively this has a positive impact on the those who work with us. these fi ve risks and the actions involved in construction healing process’, says project 1. Working at heights; we need to take to avoid them works at the Institute of manager Dieter Dobbelaere. 2. Working with moving causing injury. Like previous years Technology, Blanchardstown, The company started work equipment; all managers are expected to near Dublin. ‘We have in mid-2013. The hospital on account of their circular 3. Lifting and hoisting address their team to discuss on completed many mid-sized consists of a central section shape, are each supported by operations; continuous safety improvement, projects here, most recently surrounded by four wings, three three pile clusters. Because of 4. Electrical installations, while focussing on ‘The Big Five’, an extension to the IT block, of which are to be used by the the large spans – forty metres – cables or pipes that are live prevention and evaluation. which includes four state of nursing wards. The fourth will the concrete supporting beams or situated in unknown or www.bamsafety.eu the art lecture theatres’, house eight operating theatres. between the pile clusters are says Pat Walsh, contracts Dobbelaere: ‘The clouds, as being given post-tensioning The Netherlands manager at BAM Specialist we call these fl oating wings reinforcements.’ Works (on the right of the photo with site agent Chris Timeless apartments The project team. Miller). ‘We are currently Designed by AM and built by BAM Woningbouw, the OpZuid building a sports pavilion. apartment complex in Amsterdam is a picture! All 46 apartments The two-storey facility will in the complex have been sold, as have the 58 spaces in the car provide, a gymnasium, park beneath it. ‘A very successful project’, says AM developer offi ces, and changing rooms Sjaak van Berkel, proudly. ‘This is the fi rst project in this offi ce for internal activities and the area that has the look and feel of a residential building, thanks external synthetic sports mostly to the large patios, which are fi elds. It is a green building truly unique. The three metre storey that includes water height is also a strong feature. This harvesting. And while it will gives the apartments a timeless feel.’ be used by students, it will also be possible for sports clubs in the local community to rent it. The project, with a value of €1 million euros, will UGermany be completed shortly. The second phase, an extension Neu-Ulm shopping centre to the accommodation, is due to start soon.’

‘Shipbuilding’ in Arnhem

For the superstructure of the UNStudio fi rm of architects was particular would cause major new railway station, consortium diffi cult to build using concrete, problems. Instead BAM is OV Terminal Arnhem – consisting according to Jan Huisman, working in steel and using 3D of BAM Utiliteitsbouw and Ballast construction manager of BAM modelling. The logic of a normal Nedam – have called on the Utiliteitsbouw. building process, if such a thing services of shipbuilder CSC. ‘Apart from the unusual design, exists, is entirely lacking. The futuristic design by the the distribution of the load in Everything interlocks.’

Jan Huisman (left), together with site agents (from the left) Roland Meeuwissen, Rolf Berkhout and Martijn de Wit.

BAM Deutschland is building the Glacis-Galerie shopping centre in Neu-Ulm, near Munich. The three buildings have a total fl oor surface area of 76,000 m2. In order to build a bridge between two buildings, the operating company recently put in place 23-metre long prefab beams. The project will be completed in the spring of 2015. UUnited Kingdom

Innovation Award for BAM Nuttall and BAM Ritchies ‘Good is not good enough’

The Scottish government is investing large sums in upgrading and renewing the railway infrastructure, one priority is the electrifi cation of Scotland’s railways. To that end, BAM Nuttall is undertaking major route clearance works to accommodate the future electrifi cation schemes. One such scheme is the Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvements The shuttering of the cloud is being Programme (EGIP), which Jerry Dickson (left) and senior site agent made in a traditional manner. In the includes the £55 million John Edelsten. On the platform under middle are the heads of the steel piles. the old bridge, piling for the foundations The £10 million Hooley Cutting project delivered as joint venture reconstruction of over forty ‘foul’ of the new over bridge is in full swing. between BAM Nuttall and BAM Ritchies won the Innovation Award at the bridges to provide additional UPPP Awards 2014. Innovative throughout in its approach, clearance for the overhead wires. the team jointly proposed new methods of working that virtually Jerry Dickson, rail operations for passengers and the public.’ Transformation Dutch eliminated the need for any Railway possessions, fi nally bringing to manager at BAM Nuttall: ‘Due to Dickson explains: ‘It is precisely government offi ce a close the instability of the cutting which has been problematic for the challenging timescales at the in these situations that we offer Network Rail for many years. The judges focused on the innovative use start of the three year project, added value. On one hand to of sprayed concrete in the ground beams that were constructed on the we concentrated mostly on the our customer by applying fi fty degree side slopes above the operational Brighton Main Line Railway. quick hit bridges in rural areas lean techniques and value Fantastic award, well done to all of those involved! that required less enabling works engineering, to keep costs prior to demolition in planned down, and on the other to disruptive possessions. Things the surroundings by UWorldwide are different in the urban areas, minimising disruption and especially at the stations. We other inconvenience to add BAM PPP’s consortium Green and orange in Red Sea have to make temporary value. Winning Rail Supplier PoortCentraal bv signed a provision for utility diversions of the Year for two years in €267 million contract for the BAM International, together The scope of work includes a and road diversions, whilst a row is recognition of our renewal and operation of with BAM Contractors and its 100-metre trestle on steel piles, maintaining pedestrian access achievements.’ Rijnstraat 8 in The Hague, Jordanian joint-venture partner a concrete off-loading platform, formerly the offi ce of the MAG Engineering & Contracting four mooring dolphins and People VROM Ministry (Transport, Co., has successfully driven the two breasting dolphins. The Spatial Planning and fi rst pile at the LNG jetty in development of the terminal Bax and BAM: old acquaintances Environment). This new Aqaba, Jordan. area with roads and two fl exible offi ce accommodation BAM International was awarded buildings are also part of Erik Bax (57) joined the Executive Board recently. Bax and will house approximately the Engineering, Procurement the contract. BAM are already well acquainted. When at CRH, an international 6.000 staff from several and Construction (EPC) of the The hand-over of the project market leader specialising in the production and distribution of Dutch government LNG jetty in November 2013. to Aqaba Development construction materials, Bax took part in the multi-stakeholder departments including the BAM Infraconsult is designing Corporation (ADC) is expected dialogue. This annual meeting sees BAM employees exchange ministry of Foreign Affairs, the civil works. in April 2015. ideas on aspects of sustainability with clients, suppliers and the ministry of Infrastructure subcontractors. and Environment, the ‘I consider BAM to be among the most innovative and The fi rst pile at the LNG jetty Immigration and in Aqaba, Jordan has been driven. sustainable construction companies. BAM looks at the building Naturalisation Service and process from a different perspective and is emphatically the CAO (central organisation committed to co-operating with other parties in the chain’, for the reception of asylum says Bax. seekers). The scope of Bax values the no-nonsense mentality at BAM. ‘It is a services includes maintenance down-to-earth, fl at organisation in which the business is key. of the building and It promotes enterprise, and also offers opportunities. installations, catering, Where is the power of the cleaning, waste management, Group and how can you energy and ICT services. improve and exploit The contract also includes the co-operation? It is precisely commercial exploitation of in the area of co-operation a parking garage, shops and – internal and external – that a commercial restaurant/food I have been able to achieve so court. Construction will be much with CRH. I look forward completed late 2016 and the to making my contribution in concession will run until 2042. that respect at BAM as well.’ News of BAM Construct UK, selected by director corporate communications Barbara Cahalane

Bradford College delivered early BIM means better buildings The BAM site team at Bradford of Bradford College College handed over the new commented: ‘This is a David Hockney Building two culmination of seven years weeks ahead of schedule. The new campus, named after famous Bradford College alumnus and internationally acclaimed artist, David Hockney, has been tailor-made for interactive and innovative ways of learning. BAM applied lean construction principles to the project and Jason Pink, BAM’s construction manager said: ‘The project has All the building data on a hand held device. been a great example of collaborative working between of planning and two years As well as making design and BIM for FM at UCL Camden, in BAM, their consultants and the of building. It is a fabulous construction processes more , (which was built by BAM College team and means that state-of-the-art facility.’ effi cient, BAM Construct UK has Construction) and the early trials the building is complete ahead Recently the BAM team won Construction of the Centre proved that Building Information are showing impressive results of time and on budget.’ also the contract to build a new started in August 2014. Modelling (BIM) can also help to with a 45 per cent improvement Michele Sutton, chief executive Advanced Technology Centre. create a building that is easier in service quality in the fi rst four and more effi cient to maintain months of use, compared to the Jason Pink (centre) hands over the keys to College CEO Michele Sutton. over its lifetime. Essentially, four months before BIM for FM Facility Management (FM) was introduced. considerations are factored in The innovation, which has at design and construction stage involved all businesses in BAM including all of the maintenance Construct UK working together, and asset data. The data has also won many awards captured in the BIM model is including a Technology in then pulled through to FM FM Award 2014, where leading systems to assist with everything FM industry experts described from planning optimum cleaning the BAM innovation as rosters through to preventative ‘transformational with the maintenance. potential to change the entire BAM FM is successfully piloting FM industry’.

Cycling to support people with cancer Property market perks up

The commercial property FORE Business Park sold for £21 million. market is improving in the UK and BAM Properties has achieved a number of letting and sales of its speculatively developed portfolio, helping to keep Royal BAM Group’s divestment strategy on target. So far, this year, it has achieved three major lettings Cyclists in BAM Plant in Wellinborough starting out on the Northampton leg. and sold two developments: Glory Park in the South of to F&C for In eight legs, over eight days, 79 BAM Construct UK colleagues cycled £6.7 million and the FORE around the country on our very own ‘tour de Britain’. It was all to raise Business Park in the Midlands funds for leading British charity, Macmillan Cancer Support, which was to IM Properties for chosen by colleagues as the company’s national charity partner. In 2013, £21 million. BAM development BAM Construct UK staff raised £96,000 for the charity which enabled director for the South of combine our expertise in BAM management results in 3,500 hours of nursing support to people with cancer. We hope to England, Clwyd Roberts says: on property development, buildings that are attractive achieve a similar, or better, result in 2014 from the proceeds of the bike ‘We are seeing encouraging design, construction and to occupiers and create value ride and many other fund raising activities. levels of demand. The way we sustainability, and facilities for investors.’

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 BAM/OMA,, De Bond Beeldredaktie, Bryan, De Beeldredaktie, JL DERU / photo-daylight.com, Fotoburo Dijkstra, LouisSteven van Neyrinck de Vuurst/Arcadis, • Design Boulogne Regie der Jonkers, Gebouwen, Zoetermeer Studio Csany• Printing • Design MediaCenter Boulogne Rotterdam Jonkers, Zoetermeer • Printing De Swart bv, Den Haag