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28 November 2019
Winners Of The Big 5’s Women In Construction Awards And The Start-Up City Awards Announced
Winners Of The Big 5’s Women In Construction Awards And The Start-Up City Awards Announced

Entrepreneurial spirit and diversity & inclusion policies recognised on day three of the region’s largest and most influential event for the construction industry

(Press release The Big5:) Dubai, UAE, 27 November 2019 - The region’s brightest and most forward-thinking companies and individuals were recognised on the third day of The Big 5 as the winners of both the Women in Construction (WIC) Awards and the Start-up City Pitch Competition were announced. As Middle East and Africa’s largest and most important meeting place for the global construction community, The Big 5 mega-event recognised those making a positive impact on the sector by fostering collaboration, supporting best practices, and provide effective solutions to today’s industry challenges.
28 November 2019
Converge launch world’s first commercial machine learning program for concrete
Converge launch world’s first commercial machine learning program for concrete

London, November 2019 - Converge has built the world's first artificial intelligence (AI) concrete strength prediction engine. This was made possible by Converge’s unique access to a huge concrete performance data set, paving the way for the first commercial application of Machine Learning to monitor and predict material performance in a live project. The strength prediction engine was developed in collaboration with BAM Nuttall, using funding from an Innovate UK grant awarded in 2018, and is already being utilised on BAM Nuttall’s London City Airport expansion project.
25 November 2019
Contracts signed as the Silvertown Tunnel passes another major milestone
  • RiverLinx consortium signs contract with Transport for London on the Silvertown Tunnel, the first major road investment in this part of London in 30 years.
  • The signing of contracts will allow RiverLinx to appoint sub-contractors and suppliers to support delivery of the project, and begin the process of obtaining local stakeholder, government and environmental consents for this project.
  • The project is the UK’s first road tunnel to have dedicated bus lanes, and from day one passengers will be able to cross the river on one of around 37 buses an hour during peak periods. This is a significant upgrade to public transport in the area.
  • When it opens in 2025, the tunnel will support future population growth in this part of London – and minimise the growing delays through the 122-year-old Blackwall Tunnel.

London, 25 November 2019 – Transport for London (TfL) and the RiverLinx consortium – comprising Macquarie Capital, Cintra, Aberdeen Standard Investments, BAM PPP PGGM, and SK E&C – have announced that they have reached financial close with Transport for London on the Silvertown tunnel project.
22 November 2019
Group photo
PwC takes keys to One Chamberlain Square

(News release Paradise Birmingham:) Birmingham, 21 November 2019 - Birmingham’s largest development project, Paradise, has handed over its first completed building to office occupier PwC.
19 November 2019
BAM wins new design and build contract for Danish school. Artist’s impression: RUBOW arkitekter.
BAM wins new design and build contract for Danish school

Bunnik, the Netherlands, 19 November 2019 – The City of Copenhagen has commissioned BAM Danmark to design and build a community school with sports hall and swimming pool in the Arena Quarter in Ørestad. Ørestad is a developing urban area in Copenhagen, located on the island of Amager, south of the city centre of Denmark’s capital. The contract value is more than €60 million.
18 November 2019
Metro Mayor recognises local workers and regional firms on completion of new raildepot
Metro Mayor recognises local workers and regional firms on completion of new raildepot

(Press release Liverpool City Region:) 14 November 2019 - Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, has marked the completion of the new Stadler Rail depot in Kirkdale by thanking local workers for their efforts in helping to bring new state-of-the-art trains to the Liverpool City Region.
15 November 2019
Safe arrival of Boston Barrier for tidal flood alleviation scheme
Safe arrival of Boston Barrier for tidal flood alleviation scheme

Camberley, 15 November 2019 - A 300-tonne tidal flood gate has arrived in Lincolnshire, and is being installed as part of the Boston Barrier Tidal Flood Alleviation Scheme.
12 November 2019
Richtfest EDGE Grand Central Berlin. Bildrechte: EDGE.
Maximal innovativ: EDGE Grand Central Berlin feiert Richtfest
  • EDGE Grand Central Berlin ist Deutschlands erstes EDGE Gebäude
  • Herausragende DGNB- und WELL-Vorzertifizierungen
  • Fertigstellung im 2. Quartal 2020

(Pressemitteilung EDGE:) Berlin, 11.11.2019 // Im Beisein von Senatsbaudirektorin Regula Lüscher wurde heute das Richtfest für EDGE Grand Central Berlin gefeiert. Das außergewöhnlich nachhaltige, gesunde und intelligente Bürogebäude wird neben dem Berliner Hauptbahnhof realisiert und Mitte 2020 von dem Projektentwickler EDGE an die Mieter übergeben.
11 November 2019
Neubau geschafft! Umbau läuft: UKSH eröffnet sein Klinikum der Zukunft am Campus Lübeck
Neubau geschafft! Umbau läuft: UKSH eröffnet sein Klinikum der Zukunft am Campus Lübeck

(Pressemitteilung UKSH, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein:) Lübeck, 08. November 2019 - Historischer Meilenstein am Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein: Mit einer Feierstunde und einem Tag der offenen Tür hat das Klinikum der Zukunft am Freitag, 8. November 2019, am Campus Lübeck seine Pforten geöffnet. Mehr als 3.000 Gäste und Besucher, darunter 500 Persönlichkeiten des öffentlichen Lebens, verschafften sich einen Eindruck vom neuen zentralen Klinikgebäude. Schleswig-Holsteins Ministerpräsident Daniel Günther eröffnete gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Jens Scholz, Vorstandsvorsitzender des UKSH, und Lübecks Bürgermeister Jan Lindenau eines der europaweit modernsten Medizinzentren.
8 November 2019
Jahrespressekonferenz zum Ausbau der A10/A24: Brandenburgs erstes ÖPP-Autobahnprojekt zieht erfolgreiche Zwischenbilanz
Jahrespressekonferenz zum Ausbau der A10/A24: Brandenburgs erstes ÖPP-Autobahnprojekt zieht erfolgreiche Zwischenbilanz

Pressemitteilung Havellandautobahn GmbH & Co. KG:) Oberkrämer, 7. November.2019 - Brandenburgs größtes Bundesfernstraßenprojekt, der als ÖPP-Verfügbarkeitsmodell vergebene Ausbau des nördlichen Berliner Rings und die Modernisierung der A24, startete im März 2018. Die Projektstrecke umfasst einen insgesamt ca. 65 Kilometer langen Abschnitt der A10 und der A24 zwischen dem Autobahndreieck Pankow bis zur Anschlussstelle Neuruppin. Hier werden die A10 sechsstreifig ausgebaut und die A24 grundhaft erneuert, um dem zukünftigen Verkehrsaufkommen gerecht zu werden. Inzwischen befindet sich das Projekt im zweiten Jahr und erste Abschnitte der modernisierten Autobahn sind bereits befahrbar.
7 November 2019
UK Government and industry champion new compact nuclear power station
UK Government and industry champion new compact nuclear power station

(Press release Rolls-Royce:) 5 November 2019 - Today UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has confirmed it has provided initial match funding to the consortium of companies designing a new type of nuclear power station in the UK.
7 November 2019
BAM reports adjusted pre-tax result of €20.5 million in first nine months, reiterates full year outlook
BAM reports adjusted pre-tax result of €20.5 million in first nine months, reiterates full year outlook
  • In Q3, adjusted pre-tax result of €47.7 million
  • Solid contributions from Construction and Property led by Dutch residential, and from PPP
  • Civil engineering recovered in the third quarter, except at BAM International
  • Order book lower due to focus on quality above quantity and some specific market developments
  • Positive momentum in trade working capital efficiency; further increase in cash position in Q3

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5 November 2019
BAM wins second joint venture contract in Canada
BAM wins second joint venture contract in Canada

(Web news BAM International:) The Hague, the Netherlands, 5 November 2019 – JGC-Fluor JV has awarded BJM, a joint venture between BAM International (the operating company of Royal BAM Group active outside Europe), JJM Construction (Canada) and Manson Construction (USA), the contract for the construction of the LNG Canada MOF, a material offloading facility to support the realisation of a LNG export facility in Kitimat on the west coast of Canada, British Columbia (approximately 600 km north-west of Vancouver).
5 November 2019
BAM appointed to deliver IKEA store in Jakarta
BAM appointed to deliver IKEA store in Jakarta

(Web news BAM International:) The Hague, the Netherlands, 5 November 2019 – PT Archipelago Property Development, a subsidiary of The Dairy Farm International Group, has appointed BAM International – the operating company of Royal BAM Group nv, active outside Western Europe – to deliver the construction of an IKEA store in Jakarta, Indonesia.
5 November 2019
BAM Belgium brings Interbuild and building department BAM Contractors together in a new company: BAM Interbuild
BAM Belgium brings Interbuild and building department BAM Contractors together in a new company: BAM Interbuild

Brussels / Wilrijk, Belgium, 4 November 2019 - BAM Belgium is bringing its subsidiary Interbuild and the buildings division of BAM Contractors together in a new company: BAM Interbuild. In this way, the construction group bundles the qualities of these two entities in order to serve clients and customers in Flanders and Brussels even better.
5 November 2019
Heijmans and BAM apply for permit for asphalt plants joint venture
Heijmans and BAM apply for permit for asphalt plants joint venture

Bunnik, the Netherlands, 5 November 2019 - The Heijmans and BAM construction firms will be applying for a permit from the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM) for the creation of a joint asphalt company.
1 November 2019
Kintore station reopening gets a lift

(Press release Network Rail:) 31 October 2019 - The new Kintore station continues to take shape with engineers installing the concrete shafts for its accessible footbridge.
1 November 2019
Contracts are signed for the largest infrastructural investment in County Mayo
Contracts are signed for the largest infrastructural investment in County Mayo

(News release Mayo County Council:) Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland, 31 October 2019 - Following the recent announcement of Cabinet approval for the construction of the N5 Westport to Turlough Road, contract signing took place at the offices of Mayo County Council, Áras an Chontae earlier this week.