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Hemel Hempstead, 2 March 2016 - BAM Construct UK has appointed Louise Williamson as Managing Director of its facilities management business BAM FM. Louise joins BAM from Cofely where she was Key Accounts and Operations Director responsible for £350 million worth of contracts. Her previous experience includes being a Sector Director of Balfour Beatty Workplace, and roles in Birse Group: as MD of New Start Ventures and as Group Director Risk Management.

Hemel Hempstead, 29 February 2016 - BAM is commencing a £28 million restoration of the Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room at London’s prestigious Southbank Centre. The suite of improvements forms part of the Southbank Centre’s ongoing programme of improving its public areas. More than six million people visit every year. Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios is the architect. Southbank Centre describes the works as ‘long overdue’, and the update will provide ‘world class facilities’.

(Press release Port of Cork:) Cork, Ireland, 9 February 2016 - Following a public tender process BAM Civil Ltd has been appointed as the main contractor by Bantry Bay Port Company to undertake the new Bantry Inner Harbour Development. This development marks the start of the regeneration of Bantry inner harbour which is in keeping with the total Inner Harbour Development scheme which was developed by the Bantry Bay Harbour Commissioners in 2012. With phase 1 of the project expected to cost in the region of €8.5 million, funding for the project has been made available from The Port of Cork Company, the Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport and from previous funds carried over from Bantry Harbour Commissioners.

Bunnik, the Netherlands, 23 February 2016 – Following the Annual General Meeting on 20 April 2016 Mr H.L.J. Noy will be stepping down as a member of the Supervisory Board, in connection with the end of his four-year term of appointment. If the General Meeting does not make any other recommendations, the Supervisory Board intends, taking into account the enhanced recommendation of the central works council, to propose that Mr Noy be reappointed for another period of four years.

Gouda, 22 February 2016 – BAM Infraconsult, under its trade name Delta Marine Consultants,  has signed a license agreement with Bouygues for the use of Xbloc on the large Expansion of the Calais Port in France.

Bunnik, the Netherlands, 19 February 2016 – The Executive Board of Royal BAM Group nv has appointed R. Vollebregt MRICS as managing director of BAM Bouw en Vastgoed bv. Roel Vollebregt (54) is currently managing director of AM, the Dutch subsidiary of BAM for area and property development.

Glasgow, 4 February 2016 - A symbolic ‘ground breaking’ ceremony recently took place at the site of the new Waid Academy and community hub in Anstruther, Fife, which is being built by BAM Construction.

Bunnik, the Netherlands, 26 January 2016 –The National Roads Authority (otherwise known as Transport Infrastructure Ireland) and a BAM PPP PGGM Iridium consortium have reached Financial Close on the N25 New Ross Bypass PPP scheme in Ireland.

Hemel Hempstead, 22 January 2016 - Fire crews were present on the North West Cambridge Development recently – but this wasn’t an emergency; it was a chance for advanced training. A tower crane being used by BAM Construction to develop parts of Eddington at the heart of the scheme was used for a recovery exercise. Firefighters from Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service’s Cambridge crews climbed up static tower crane to perform the dummy rescue of a colleague.