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28 June 2011
BAM wins two PPP contracts for prisons in Belgium

Bunnik (the Netherlands) - Beveren/Dendermonde (Belgium), 28 June 2011 – The Belgium Buildings Agency (Regie der Gebouwen/Régie des Bâtiments) and BAM PPP have reached financial close on the  contracts for the provision of two prisons in Beveren and Dendermonde, which will house 312 and 444 inmates respectively. The two projects have a joint construction value of more than €160 million.
23 June 2011
BAM halves waste to landfill two years ahead of forecast and sets zero return as part of its long-term sustainability targets

Hemel Hempstead, 23 June 2011 - BAM Construct UK has reached its target for halving waste to landfill two years early. Construction waste production relative to turnover was down for the fifth year running. In 2008 BAM adopted the WRAP target of halving waste to landfill by 2012. In 2010 it exceeded this target two years ahead of schedule,   BAM now has a diversion rate from landfill of 85%.
22 June 2011
European construction sector signs sustainability charter

(Press release Encord - Royal BAM Group nv - Ballast Nedam nv:) Otterlo, the Netherlands, 21 June 2011 – Twenty leading European construction companies united in Encord, including Royal BAM Group and Ballast Nedam, have drawn up a joint corporate sustainability statement. This charter (the Encord Sustainable Development Charter) was ratified by Executives of the companies concerned at a meeting held today in the Kröller-Möller museum.
20 June 2011
Eight-year-old Emma becomes Britain’s Youngest Landscape Gardener

Hemel Hempstead, 20 June 2011 - It took her only an hour to draw, but the nature garden designed by eight-year-old Emma Deadman at St Phillips Primary School in Cambridgeshire took contractor BAM three days of hard but charitable labour to build. And it has established her as Britain’s youngest ever landscape gardener.
20 June 2011
Students create new hoardings for Network Rail’s National Centre

Hemel Hempstead, 20 June 2011 - Year eight students from Radcliffe School in Wolverton have decorated the hoardings surrounding Network Rail’s new National Centre following an artwork competition to highlight the sustainability of the building’s construction.
17 June 2011
New contract for BAM International in Indonesia

Bunnik, the Netherlands, 16 June 2011 - BAM International, the operating company of Royal BAM Group active outside Europe, has won a contract for the construction of an offshore mooring structure outside Tanjung Priok, Jakarta, Indonesia. The contract value for the construction amounts to € 16 million. The facility will be handed over to client Golar LNG Energy and affiliates in December 2011.
14 June 2011
Tebodin establishes first office in Indonesia

The Hague, the Netherlands, 14 June 2011 - Tebodin Consultants & Engineers has established the first office in Indonesia. With this new office, located in Jakarta, the company enters another country to offer consultancy and engineering services. Tebodin Indonesia is the latest addition to the global Tebodin network consisting of approximately 50 offices in 20 countries. It is the fourth office of Tebodin in the Asia Pacific region.
13 June 2011
BAM awarded Gold ranking by Business in the Community's Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI)

Hemel Hempstead, 8 June 2011 - Impressive environmental management has propelled BAM Construct UK to achieve gold in Business in the Community’s (BITC) 2011 Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI), the UK’s leading voluntary benchmark of corporate responsibility. Beside being one of the UK's largest school and hospital builders, the contractor is working for companies such as the Co-operative Group, BAE Systems and Network Rail.