Press releases

(Press release Leeds City Council:) Leeds, 3 August 2022 - The A647 Stanningley Road bus infrastructure improvements to ease congestion in peak times along the Leeds to Bradford route is complete.

(News release Riverlinx:) London, 28 July 2022 - The cutter head for the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) for Silvertown Tunnel was carefully lowered into the shaft last week – making another milestone for the project.

London, 27 July 2022 - BAM Charging Solutions launches today! It delivers an end-to-end EV charging infrastructure solution for businesses, which support our clients on their road to zero emissions.

Hemel Hempstead, 27 July 2022 - Enhanced performance, reduced stress, increased well-being and greater job satisfaction were also noted from BAM and other partners in Timewise flexible working trial.

(Press release South Gloucestershire Council:) Bristol, 22 July 2022 - Even as staff and students look forward to the summer holidays, a group from Frenchay Church of England Primary School have visited the site of their brand new facilities to take a last peek before building work is completed over the break. They will move in at the start of the new school year in September.

New lightweight footbridge design for Bucks, Oxon and West Northants

(Press release HS2:) London, 20 July 2022 - HS2 today revealed the first images of the bridges that will carry rural footpaths and bridleways across the new high speed railway as it passes through Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and West Northants.

(Press release Femern A/S:) 13 July 2022 - The contractor consortium FLC has completed a full-scale trail casting of a segment of a tunnel element at the construction site at Rødbyhavn.

Camberley, 19 July 2022 - BAM Nuttall and Motive Fuels have been awarded more than £350,000 of funding to help develop hydrogen-fuelled construction equipment as part of a government competition to help the sector adapt to the red-diesel ban.

Camberley, 19 July 2022 - Kier BAM Joint Venture (KBJV) has been appointed by Babcock International Group to support in the delivery of a refurbishment project at Devonport’s 10 Dock facility in Plymouth, Devon.

(Press release Tilburg University:) Tilburg, the Netherlands,: 15 July 2022 - On July 15 2022, the first foundation pile went into the ground for the new educational building at Tilburg University, the Marga Klompé Building. The building, with independent study places, fourteen lecture halls, and a foyer will be constructed on the site of the former parking lot between Tias building and CUBE.

(Press release Norfolk County Council:) Norfolk, 14 July 2022 - Pupils living closest to the site of the Great Yarmouth Third River Crossing took part in a bridge building workshop on Monday as part of their school’s ‘Aspiration Week’.

Massive achievement as one million tonnes of aggregate delivered by rail to HS2 construction sites in Buckinghamshire, taking the equivalent of 100,096 HGV journeys off Britain’s roads and cutting 11,399 tonnes of carbon emissions

(Press release HS2:) London, 12 July  2022 - HS2 today confirmed that more than a million tonnes of construction material have been delivered by rail to the high speed rail’s work sites across Buckinghamshire, taking the equivalent of 100,096 HGV journeys off local roads.

Hemel Hempstead/Leeds, 12 July 2022 - BAM has begun above-ground construction work on the new state-of-the art pathology laboratory at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which is set to serve patients across West Yorkshire and Harrogate.

Commitment to sustainable improvement underpins strong 2021 results for BAM’s UK operations

Hemel Hempstead /  Camberley, 7 July 2022 - BAM’s civil and construction businesses in the UK – BAM Nuttall and BAM Construct UK – have reported a strong performance for 2021. Royal BAM Group published UK results on 17 February.

(Press release Invesis:) Brussels, 1 July 2022 - Quality education goes hand in hand with quality infrastructure and the Flemish Government is committed to investing in school infrastructure. Through project-specific Design, Build, Finance and Maintain (DBFM) agreements which provide an alternative financing option with the private sector, Agion, an independent agency for Infrastructure in Education established by the Flemish Government, has created a programme for public-private investment to deliver brand new and renovated schools. This DBFM programme includes 42 projects scattered over 13 clusters and will create a total of 250,000 m² of new school buildings. The Egied Van Broeckhoven school in Brussels, Belgium, is the first project within this programme.

Kill, Co. Kildare, Ireland, 23 June 2022 - Kier BAM Joint Venture (JV) has secured a place on Northern Ireland Water’s £1.2 billion Major Project Partnership Framework (MPPF). The JV has been appointed to Lot 2, the highest value Lot on the framework.

Camberley, 21 June 2022 ­­- BAM has teamed up with new supplier Grace & Green to provide plastic free sanitary products to help provide better workplace environments for women in construction.

(Press release Cork County Council:) Cork, Ireland, 21 June 2022 - The new Carrigaline Western Relief Road will be named by the local community, following a proposal by the Elected Members of Carrigaline Municipal District. Children attending schools in Carrigaline together with members of the public are invited to submit their proposed name, which should recognise the links to Carrigaline’s past while also considering the towns future.

Modular system is based on DMC’s proven XblocPlus solution for coastal protection, which will be tailored to suit Singapore’s wave climate and local site conditions

Singapore, 20 June 2022 – Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) will work with national coastal protection agency PUB to assess the feasibility of implementing its modular system, XblocPlus, along suitable sections of Singapore’s coastline to tackle sea level rise.

Hemel Hempstead, 20 June 2022 - BAM has been appointed through the Department for Education’s high value framework to redevelop Fred Longworth High School in Tyldesley, in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The £24 million contract will see BAM create a three-storey teaching block, to be handed over in September 2023. It will be Net Zero Carbon in Operation.

Bunnik, the Netherlands, 21 June 2022 - Royal BAM Group nv has reached agreement on the sale of the shares of the German operating company Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau to ZECH Building SE, in which all construction activities of the Zech Group are bundled.

(Press release HS2:) London, 10 June 2022 - First of five HS2 ‘green tunnels’ that, when complete, will be covered by earth and host trees and shrubs to fit in with the surrounding countryside

(Press release Femern A/S:) 8 June 2022 - The installation of the roof on the first of the three production halls for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel’s concrete elements is now complete. A topping out ceremony at the Rødbyhavn construction site marked the event for the 1,000 workers.

Hemel Hempstead, 7 June 2022 - A leading UK construction, facilities management and property developer has been confirmed as the construction partner for phase one of Nuneaton town centre’s Abbey Street development.