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Newsletter of Royal BAM Group nv, volume 8, number 3, Autumn 2011 MAS opened 45,000 visitors passed through the doors of the newly opened Museum aan de Stroom (MAS) in the Belgian city of Antwerp during its recent four-day opening festival. The museum was built by Interbuild. The guests were treated to music, First BAM apps! BAM’s 2010 Annual Report, its 2010 Sustainability Report and BAM International’s client magazine ‘View’ are now available as a free app for the Apple iPad. To download these documents please visit the App Store. All BAM employees have the opportunity to win an iPad by participating in the BAM Safety Day Challenge to answer 25 on-line questions about best practice. The challenge will be available on the BAM Safety Day website in four different languages. The company encourages all employees to take this challenge in the month before BAM Safety Day. On this day, all managers Chairman of the Executive Board Nico de Vries has taken possession of the keys of the first of sixteen cars that run of BAM companies will discuss safety performance with their employees and stress the need for improvement. These discussions are an important part of BAM Safety Day. Staff employed by joint venture partners are also welcome to attend. www.bamsafe.eu ‘Green’ BAM cars dancing, fireworks and theatre performances. The ‘stacked’ building, designed by Neutelings Riedijk Architecten of Rotterdam, features the history of the city of Antwerp, among other things. www.mas.be Worldwide BAM Safety Day 25 October 2011 entirely on electricity which BAM will be using on the Dutch road network. The Nissan LEAF is packed with high-tech communications and information systems. At the same time, BAM Utiliteitsbouw and BAM Strategic Sourcing are jointly conducting an experiment involving ‘green’ gas vehicles. The intention is to establish whether it is worthwhile to use clean cars of this kind more extensively as a way of reducing the amount of CO 2  emitted by BAM’s fleet of vehicles. Both the running costs of the car and the feasibility aspects will be looked at.

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Newsletter of Royal BAM Group nv, volume 8, number 3, Autumn 2011

MAS opened

45,000 visitors passed through the doors of the newly opened Museum aan de Stroom (MAS) in the Belgian city of Antwerp during its recent four-day opening festival. The museum was built by Interbuild. The guests were treated to music,

First BAM apps!

BAM’s 2010 Annual Report, its 2010 Sustainability Report and BAM International’s client magazine ‘View’ are now available as a free app for the Apple iPad. To download these documents please visit the App Store.

All BAM employees have the opportunity to win an iPad by participating in the BAM Safety Day Challenge to answer 25 on-line questions about best practice.The challenge will be available on the BAM Safety Day website in four different languages.The company encourages all employees to take this challenge in the month before BAM Safety Day. On this day, all managers

Chairman of the Executive Board Nico de Vries has taken possession of the keys of the first of sixteen cars that run

of BAM companies will discuss safety performance with their employees and stress the need for improvement. These discussions are an important part of BAM Safety Day. Staff employed by joint venture partners are also

welcome to attend. www.bamsafe.eu

‘Green’ BAM cars

dancing, fireworks and theatre performances. The ‘stacked’ building, designed by Neutelings Riedijk Architecten of Rotterdam, features the history of the city of Antwerp, among other things. www.mas.be

Worldwide BAM Safety Day 25 October 2011

entirely on electricity which BAM will be using on the Dutch road network. The Nissan LEAF is packed with high-tech

communications and information systems. At the same time, BAM Utiliteitsbouw and BAM Strategic Sourcing are jointly conducting an experiment involving ‘green’ gas vehicles. The intention is to establish whether it is worthwhile to use clean cars of this kind more extensively as a way of reducing the amount of CO2 emitted by BAM’s fleet of vehicles. Both the running costs of the car and the feasibility aspects will be looked at.

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Group News

Cleaner than clean

The pharmacy of the Academisch Medisch Centrum (AMC) hospital in Amsterdam is now benefiting from brand new production facilities. Interflow, the subsidiary of BAM Techniek that specialises in clean rooms, was responsible for the complete design, coordination and execution of the project, including all the structural and M&E installations in the preparation areas.One of the things the AMC pharmacy prepares is cytostatics, medicines that are used during chemotherapy for cancer treatment. The new areas can only be entered via air-locks, where employees have to change their clothes. Products are also delivered and removed via special air-locks; the same applies to the disposal of waste.

United Kingdom

Sophisticated ice rink

BAM Wegen has constructed a 400-metre combined skating and inline skating track in the village of Alteveer in the northern Netherlands. It meets all the requirements of the relevant national sports associations. The unique collaboration with the commissioning party, SMEA, has given the multifunctional facility, which also includes an area for tractor pulling in the centre, a special character. The jewel in the crown of the design is the ingenious irrigation system for flooding the track in the winter with special facilities to restore any damage of the ice floor by skaters.

Joint corporate sustainability statement

Royal BAM Group is one of twenty European construction companies to ratify a charter on sustainability. The charter was ratified by executives of the companies concerned at a meeting held in the Netherlands. The companies are all members of Encord, the European Network of Construction Companies for Research and Development, an innovation network of leading European construction companies.In mid-October the members will present an action plan to implement the principles of the charter to the 2,000 participants of the World Sustainable Building Conference 2011 to be held in Helsinki.The full text of the charter can be read at www.encord.org.

Since late 2009, BAM Utiliteitsbouw has been involved in a joint venture for the construction of the new Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam – a mega-project of 185,000 m² with a contract value of €450 million, which will be completed in 2017.Instead of using tower cranes the high rise building is being erected using a raisable workshop that is completely free of any columns, and which is equipped with two heavy overhead cranes. The workshop projects outwards on one side, so that one of the overhead cranes can run besides the tower building. The advantage is that the forty tonnes heavy facade elements can be hoisted in the lee of the tower.

The cytostatics area with microbiological safety cabinets.

M62 contract

Joint venture bmJV, consisting of BAM Nuttall and Morgan Sindall, has been awarded a £136 million construction contract to upgrade 25 kilometres of the M62 to alleviate traffic congestion. The project is part of the Highways Agency’s four-year, up to £2 billion National Major Projects Framework to deliver managed motorways across England. The project will include resurfacing and drainage improvement to the hard shoulder of the M62 so that it can be used as an additional lane during peak periods or, perhaps, permanently. The project will also involve the construction of new overhead sign gantries, emergency refuge areas and the installation of AMI signs, signalling, speed monitoring and a CCTV system. Work is due to start between October and December 2011 and be completed in 2013-2014.

Raisable workshop

The Netherlands

The asphalt can be applied more efficiently

thanks to a local positioning system.

An outer wall element is lifted.

‘Green’ construction lift

A first for BAM! - a lift for passengers and materials that generates power whenever it descends. The first ‘green’ construction lift in the Netherlands is located at a renovation project in The Hague that is being carried out by BAM Utiliteitsbouw and BAM Techniek. From the left: Jan van der Hoeven (BAM Utiliteitsbouw), Marc Jonkers (BAM Materieel) and Pascal Matheeuwsen (RAXTAR) in front of the ‘green’ lift.

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Together with technical services provider Imtech, BAM Deutschland is building the new Imtech offices in Frankfurt, which will shortly be home to five hundred employees. Work on the project, which has a contract value of around €17 million for BAM Deutschland, started in October 2010. The total floor surface area is 25,500 m2, divided over two underground parking levels and  seven storeys above ground. The Imtech-Haus is on a prime location: the new Gateway Gardens business district, just opposite Frankfurt airport. It is scheduled to open in January 2012.

United Kingdom

Germany

Hochtaunus Kliniken in Bad Homburg has awarded a PPP contract for the construction of two new hospitals to the Yolande Verwaltungsgesellschaft and BAM Deutschland joint venture. It involves the design, building, financing and 25-year maintenance (‘DBFM’) of two hospitals in Bad Homburg and Usingen, just north of Frankfurt am Main. The DBFM contract has a value of almost €200 million for BAM. The hospital in Bad Homburg will have a floor area of 63,000 m² and 483 beds. In Usingen, the hospital will have a surface area of 16,000 m² and 100 beds. Both hospitals are due to open in late 2013.

Imtech-Haus Frankfurt

PPP contract for two German hospitals

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh,

which houses an extensive collection

of paintings of famous Scots, will be

reopening its doors in late November. After a far-reaching refurbishment programme,

BAM Construction handed over the project this spring. A sea of light cascades into the newly renovated exhibition rooms of the gallery through the skylights, which are once again visible following the dismantling of the lowered ceilings, and through the large semi-circular windows, from which wooden partitions have been removed. The Page\Park architecture studio in Glasgow opted for a number of major alterations to the construction. The roof structure of the west wing, for example, has been completely renovated. Remarkable aspects of the project are the 48-person lift, made completely of glass and the relocation of the 120-year-old library, which is made entirely of mahogany.www.nationalgalleries.org

New face for gallery

100% friendly and helpful

98% of BAM Construct UK’s customers say they would work with the company again, according to customer perception research conducted with a mix of current, past and prospective clients. 90% of the customers interviewed thought BAM was as good as or better than its competitors

(45% thought BAM was better) and 100% of customers thought BAM’s employees were ‘friendly and helpful’. But, customers also felt there were areas where BAM could improve, concludes

chief executive Graham Cash. ‘Our customers say that, like other contractors, BAM needs to eliminate defects and improve aftercare when we hand over a building. Our first priority is to implement a customer-centric aftercare programme. We will draw on the expertise of our FM business and ask some of our customers to help us to develop it.’

Graham Cash.

Bad Homburg.

Rebuilding a bridge near Battersea

BAM Nuttall is replacing a nearly 100-year-old steel railway bridge in south-west London. The bridge, next to the site of Battersea Power Station, is an impressive and complex five span intersection structure. The design chosen for the new bridge is interesting and demands a significant level of site ingenuity. An in-situ reinforced concrete box will be constructed in each span with the top at the level of the soffit of the existing superstructure. These concrete box structures must be completed before the Christmas blockade when the old superstructure is removed. By the New Year, trains will be running over the reconstructed bridge.

The bridge near Battersea.

Hadyn Ellis Building

Cardiff University has selected BAM Construction to deliver its new Hadyn Ellis Building. The circa £20 million development will form the gateway to its Maindy Park campus. At around 10,000 m2, the science-led facility for post-graduate medical research will house lecture theatres, clinics, laboratory spaces and office accommodation among other facilities. It will feature an impressive atrium, zinc cladding and a concrete cantilevered staircase, and range between three, four and five storeys. The new building aims to achieve BREEAM ‘Excellent’ status.

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Worldwide

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 De Beeldredaktie, Michael Boulogne, Cuauhtémoc Garmendia,

Levien Willemse • Design Boulogne Jonkers, Zoetermeer • Printing De Swart, Den Haag

Ireland

Tank on stilts

Belgium

Quay walls in Jordan and Liberia

BAM International has been awarded a contract for the extension of a wharf for Aqaba Container Terminal (a joint venture of Aqaba Development Corporation and APM Terminals) in Jordan. In addition, BAM International has won a contract for the design and construction of a 600-metre quay wall for a container terminal in Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia. BAM Infraconsult will be responsible for the design. Client is APM Terminals.The contract value for BAM for both projects totals approximately €85 million.

Botanical garden in Oman

BAM International has started work on the construction of phase 4 of a botanical garden in Muscat, the capital of Oman. The contract is valued at €86 million (of which BAM’s share is around €47 million), and the building work will take 26 months. Omani contractor Target LLC is partnering BAM in the scheme. The project consists of the construction of two climate-controlled building complexes with entry halls, car parks, workshops, a mosque, railway station, education centre and various other facilities. The 420-hectare park, an initiative of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, includes the most typical kind of flora (1,200 species) and landscapes found in the country, such as mountains, gravel and sand deserts, wadis and the ecosystems that occur along the coast.

CEI-De Meyer is building a colossal concrete storage tank in the Antwerp harbour, the sturdy foundation piles of which were constructed by BAM Civiel. From the end of 2012, the tank will be able to accommodate 50,000 m³ of liquid ethylene at a temperature of -101 oC.‘The concrete tank forms a protective cover for the double-walled steel interior tank. This is needed because liquid ethylene has something of an explosive temperament’, explains project manager Frederik Heeren.The project, which is being carried out for international chemicals giant Ineos on behalf of the German engineering company TGE Gas, was started in the autumn of 2010.

Turning the sod

Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny turns the sod for 6,696 m2 office premises at Mahon, which houses US company Quest Software. BAM Contractors is the main contractor on site. John Cleary Developments (JCD), are managing the construction of the project. Theo Cullinane, managing director of BAM: ‘At a time of devastating unemployment in the building industry, it is good to be commencing a project that, at peak, will employ up to 300 local construction workers.’

Pictured from left: Jerry Buttimer, TD; John Cleary, Theo Cullinane, Taoiseach Enda

Kenny, Simon Coveney (Minister for Agriculture Marine and Food), Mike Madonia

(Quest Software) and Cllr Joe O’Callaghan.

Mayor of Kerry Councillor Pat Leahy and Brian Cunningham, director BAM Civil, signed the contract for the N22 Tralee Bypass Road Improvement Scheme in south-west Ireland. This €35 million bypass connecting the N21, N22, N69 and N70, involves the construction of eight kilometres of dual carriageway to the east of Tralee and 5.5 kilometres single carriageway link road from the bypass to the N22 Killarney Road. Works have already started with a construction programme of 21 months. Once complete the scheme will greatly relieve traffic congestion in Tralee town and enhance the road transport corridor between Tralee and Killarney.

Purifying sewage water, water treatment, pumping stations, drinking water facilities – these are the fields where Balteau is at home. A subsidiary of Belgium’s BAM Wallonie, Balteau designs and builds the M&E installations, with Galère, its sister company, providing the civil engineering, as well as various buildings. An example can be found in the Walloon village of Hamme-Mille, about twenty kilometres east of

Brussels. ‘We are putting the finishing touches to a purification station where the wastewater from 6,000 households will be treated’, says project manager Dominique Cheval. The purification process was designed internally, with various components being manufactured in the workshop. Larger components are being bought in, ready to use.

Belgium

Two PPP prison contracts

The Belgium Buildings Agency 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. Responsibility for the construction and maintenance (for the next 25 years) of both prisons is in the hands of BAM companies,

Interbuild and Galère. The building work on the two projects is due to start in October 2011 and they are expected to be completed by mid-2013. Both buildings have been designed by a joint venture of Stéphane Beel Architecten, M. & J-M. Jaspers - J. Eyers & Partners and Archivolt Architecten.

From the left: site

agent Kris Van

Meenen, project team

engineer Martin König

and assistant site

agent Gert Eeckhout.

Dominique Cheval (right),

together with Galère site

agent Buisseret Olivier.

Dendermonde.

Balteau: pure perfection

N22 Tralee Bypass Contract

Frederik Heeren.