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This will float

Five gravity-based wind turbine

foundations are fast taking

shape in their dock near

Newcastle upon Tyne. BAM

Nuttall, BAM Infra and BAM

Infraconsult are working closely

together on this innovative

project. The caissons are due to

be towed (!) to their submersion

location off the British coast

near Blyth this spring. More

about this project on page 5.

Magazine of Royal BAM Group nv, volume 14, number 1, spring 2017

Danish bio lab

BAM goes to the ... South Pole

Sleek-lined water towers

Luxurious living by the Schelde

Pioneering in a British dock

The unmissable addition to Manchester’s skyline

Major upgrade of the Kiel Canal sea lock

Aloft Hotel Dublin

The Swan opens its wings again

On the Lyngby Campus of the

Technical University of Denmark

in Copenhagen, BAM Danmark

has handed over the biotechnology

research centre for DTU Biosustain

- Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre

for Biosustainability. The six-storey

building has a total floor area

of over 12,000 m² and offers

laboratories, classrooms, offices,

meeting rooms and a canteen.•

Tower BridgePedestrians – some 40,000 every

day – and drivers (21,000) were

recently able to reclaim the

unhindered use of London’s

122-year-old Tower Bridge. For

a period of three months, BAM

Nuttall has been busy repairing

and resurfacing the two moving

sections, including some repairs

on the supporting structure.

The project required intricate

logistics – dividing the work

into sections to retain pedestrian

Aloft Hotel DublinIn Dublin, BAM Ireland is

constructing an Aloft Hotel.

The 20-million-euro project is

for the design and construction

of a 202-bed hotel. This

comprises a seven-storey

in-situ concrete structure

above a two-storey basement

with retail areas on the ground

floor. The façade is a bespoke

unitised glazing system, with

rain screen and natural stone

access – and also a vast amount

of historical and material research

on what types of wood and steel

the bridge was originally

constructed from. ‘We did a lot

of investigations, but ended up

with like for like’, says BAM Nuttall

Senior Agent Agne Smakovaite.

‘The overall weight won’t change.’

This is crucial as the 1,000-tonne

bascules are balanced so that

lifting them requires very little

energy.•

cladding. In addition to

bedrooms and suites, the

hotel has a foyer and reception,

all day restaurant areas, bar

facilities, meeting and

conference spaces,

administration rooms and

a gym area. BAM will hand

over the hotel to client

Pembroke Hospitality Ltd

in April 2018.•

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From the Board - BAM Construct UK

Stronger collaboration and performanceImplementation of ‘Building the

present, creating the future’ is well

underway in BAM Construct UK.

We made good progress in 2016

and I am pleased that we delivered

the profit for 2016 that we

promised the Group. We improved

our cash position by 111 million

pounds over the year to 258 million

pounds. This year our goal is to

achieve at least two per cent

profit on all of our operations.

‘Building the present, creating

the future’ has helped us to focus

on the market sectors and the

clients we wish to target, while

the stage gate procedure is

helping us to be more selective

about projects. The quality of

our order book is improving.

Having a coherent strategy

enables us to create a resilient

business that can exploit any

benefits or withstand any shocks

that may emerge from Brexit.

It is good to see that the strategy

is leading to increased collaboration

across Royal BAM Group. For

example, we value the input

from colleagues in other operating

companies in peer reviews and are

learning a great deal from reviewing

their projects. There is a vast

reservoir of expertise across Royal

BAM Group and the more we share

it the more we will all succeed.

As well as achieving greater

operational efficiency, the drive

to digitalise our business and

the goal of having a positive

net impact for society from our

work are inspiring objectives for

everyone in the Group.

And while we become a stronger

Group, we must also become

a safer one. Our primary safety

goal this year in BAM Construct UK

is to increase the involvement of

our supply chain in our safety

management. We had ten

accidents involving serious

injuries on our sites last year;

we must reduce that this year.

Graham Cash, Chief Executive

BAM Construct UK

Rijnstraat 8 readyIn January the Poort Centraal

consortium, BAM, ISS and

architect OMA, received the

Availability Certificate for

the Rijnstraat 8 in The Hague.

Originally the seat of VROM,

the Ministry of Housing, Spatial

Planning and the Environment,

the building is now a flexible and

sustainable multi-agency building

– energy label A – suitable for

6,000+ employees of three

Ministries: Foreign Affairs,

Infrastructure and Environment

and Immigration and

Naturalisation Services and

the Dutch Central Agency for

the Reception of Asylum Seekers

(COA). To mark the end of the

construction period, the BAM

band ‘Under Construction’

performed on site.

Project completion takes place

on 10 March 2017 and end users

will move into their new building

in June 2017. BAM PPP will

continue to manage the project

until 2042, with facilities

management provided by

BAM Bouw en Techniek and ISS.

Project Director Fred de Jonge:

‘All who have committed

themselves to this magnificent

building have every reason

to be proud of the result’.•3

Appointment

Walter Swinkels has been appointed as Director

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). Swinkels

was a partner at consultant CPI Risk Finance

Governance and also a lecturer at the University

of Amsterdam. BAM regards governance, risk

and compliance as three interconnected pillars

which are essential to realise the Group’s strategic

objectives and maintain a solid reputation.

BAM has been chosen to partner with British Antarctic Survey (BAS) to modernise UK Antarctic and other research facilities. BAM has teamed up with major European design consultants Sweco to assist with project delivery.

Commissioned by the Natural

Environment Research Council

(NERC), this long-term UK

partnership will last between

seven and ten years and is

estimated at 120 million euro.

The modernisation programme

will enable a world-leading

capability to ensure that Britain

remains at the forefront of climate,

biodiversity and ocean research

in the polar regions.

One of the first projects to

be undertaken by BAM Nuttall

and BAM International is the

redevelopment of the wharf at

the BAS Rothera Research Station

on the Antarctic Peninsula.

This is part of the enhancement

of polar facilities to accommodate

the new state-of-the-art polar

research vessel the RRS Sir

David Attenborough.

In addition to building a new

wharf, storage and living quarters

at Rothera Research Station, other

Antarctic development projects

that will be undertaken include

modernising buildings and

facilities at BAS stations in Signy

(South Orkney Islands), Bird Island

(South Georgia) and at King

Edward Point (South Georgia).

The Antarctic construction

projects will present unique

challenges given the continent

is the highest, driest, coldest

and windiest on Earth, and most

construction work will need to be

completed during the four-month

window of the Antarctic summer.

Construction workers will live and

work alongside science teams in

harsh and remote environments,

sometimes in sub-zero

temperatures.

‘We will be fully isolated on site

and will have no one to rely on but

ourselves. Leaving early won’t be

an option and there are no friendly

neighbourhood shops around the

corner. You have to be up for that,

and of course that is something

we will take into consideration

when assembling our team’, says

Project Manager Gerard Turk.•

Gerard Turk.

BAM goes to the ... South Pole

Hotel in Sphinx porcelain factory

Part of the historic Eiffel building in

Maastricht, once part of the Sphinx

factory complex, is being converted

by BAM Bouw en Techniek into The

Student Hotel. The 378-room hotel

will be opened in the autumn of

2017. The remaining forty per cent

of the monumental building will

be delivered in shell form, ready

for further development for

residential, commercial, retail or

catering purposes. The contract

value is 28 million euro.

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Innovation

Pioneering in a British dockThings are moving fast in Newcastle! In the construction dock on the banks of the river Tyne, the steel shafts of the wind turbine foundations have already reached a prominent height and will soon rise up another thirty metres.

A group of British and Dutch BAM

companies is building these five

submersible wind turbine

foundations, which will be lowered

onto the North Sea seabed off the

coast of Blyth, Northumberland.

The project, partially financed

with a Dutch sustainability grant,

is EDF Energy Renewables’ way of

demonstrating that, in deeper waters

especially, submersion is an excellent

alternative to jackets placed on the

seabed.

The hybrid construction (concrete

caisson and steel shaft) was designed

by BAM Infraconsult. ‘It is wonderful

to see our contribution to sustainable

energy becoming reality’, said Nhut

Nguyen, who leads the BAM

Infraconsult design team. ‘It shows

that BAM is able to handle the entire

cycle from design to construction

and, finally, submersion.’

The other BAM parties in the project

are BAM Ritchies, BAM Nuttall, BAM

Infra and BAM International, whose

Siewert Dob is currently overseeing

the heavy civil part of the works.

Engineering Manager Richard Bewell

of BAM Nuttall is pleased to see how

all BAM partners unite to meet the

challenges of the complex innovative

project. ‘Among the most

challenging features are the

temporary works required during

fabrication. For the conical roof of

the caisson, for instance, 130-tonne

precast elements are held in place

with extensive steel temporary

works while interconnecting

in-situ concrete is placed and

cured. The steel components are

then removed from the caisson

via a number of openings.’

A key aspect of the project is to

learn from the work with an eye

on further development for mass

production. Sander Overbeeke,

Business Development Consultant

at BAM Infraconsult: ‘We are looking

at options to reduce weight, for

instance, and alternatives for the

use of temporary constructions.

The input from the project team is

of great value to our investigations,

especially with regard to

constructability.’

In the spring the caissons will

receive a final layer of ballast

concrete. Towing and submersion

of the units are scheduled for

May/June 2017.•

Richard Bewell taking his BAM Infraconsult colleagues on a tour of the dock.

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Tweets

German department for lean construction

Established in mid-2016,

the new department aims to

systematically improve value-

adding activities in design and

construction and eradicate

inefficiency. ‘The success of

the implementation of lean

construction depends on the

commitment of all employees

in all divisions and at all levels

of the company. For it is only

our employees who have the

know-how and the experience

that we need to sustainably

improve and strengthen

internal and external processes’,

says Sebastian Lange, Head of the

Lean Construction Department.

‘Our work starts with our

engagement. Followed by

supporting pilot projects and

providing training to share our

‘Lean Construction’ and tool

utilization know-how.’

Tool: regular meetings

One of those tools involves

meetings that take place on

a regular basis. ‘These meetings

focus on the information

Every business has processes that leave room for further optimisation. At BAM Deutschland, there is now a separate department that is dedicated to developing improvements on the basis of the principles of lean construction.

requirements of the participants

and knowledge sharing. The

objective should at all times be

that meetings have added value

for all participants. Depending

on the size of a group, meetings

should not be longer than fifteen

to twenty minutes’, says Lange.

How often and in which manner

these meetings are held isn’t

decisive – what counts is the fact

that they are held regularly. In

addition to knowledge sharing,

regular meetings have many other

benefits, such as team building,

Across the UK construction

sector there have been a

worrying series of tragic

incidents involving forward

tipping dumpers. Including

the fatality at a BAM Nuttall

project in Scotland.

Chief Operating Officer Erik Bax

recently visited the project

involved together with

Corporate Safety Officer

Geert van der Linde and

Steve Fox, BAM Nuttall Chief

Executive. They visited the

location of the fatal accident

offering support and

condolences to those directly

involved.

Discussions took place with

site employees on how such

incidents could be avoided in

the future. There were also

discussions on the segregation

of construction traffic and

pedestrians. Geert van der Linde

stressed the importance of open

dialogue and engagement with all

employees, so that vital information

can be used to prevent incidents in

the future. It is crucial that lessons

are learnt not just by BAM Nuttall

but by the Group as a whole.•

BAM Nuttall is working with other stakeholders in the UK construction industry on forward tipping dumpers with a view to eradicating their use on construction projects.

Dumpers made safer

The Scottish site.

Safety

The unmissable addition to Manchester’s skyline

BAM and the ‘Big Six’ are realising

the 100-million-plus-euro project

on a commission from Allied

London. ‘This developer plays

a key role in the renovation of

Manchester’s older areas, like

Spinningfields, which over the

past decade has been transformed

into a brand-new business centre.

This office tower is more or less

the final piece in the Spinningfields

puzzle’, said Project Manager

Philip London.

The contract is the first from Allied

London for BAM Construction,

which has already delivered a series

of prestigious projects in the British

industrial city, such as One Angel

Square, the Graphene Institute and

Manchester City Football Academy.

‘Allied London recommended

that we collaborated with six

subcontractors

who had

delivered to full

satisfaction on

the foundations,

concrete and

steel structures,

façades, building

installations and lifts of previous

projects. We’ve nicknamed them

the Big Six. It’s working out very

well and construction is going

according to plan.’

The building, which is designed

to achieve a BREEAM Excellent

sustainability certificate, will

reach completion by mid-2017.

Allied London has praised BAM

for collaboration. ‘BAM has shown

a real understanding of our need

to secure tenants for the building.

With BAM‘s support, we have

produced one of the best

marketing suites ever seen in

a commercial development

in the UK’, said Chris Reay,

a Director of Allied London.•

In Manchester, BAM Construction is working with six major subcontractors on building No. 1 Spinningfields, an office tower reaching 112 metres high, that will offer 24,000 m2 high-end office space.

Philip London.

Lean construction leverages the know-how of the employees.

a better insight into project

progress and current issues, and

a better overall understanding

of processes and related matters.

Long weekly meetings can be

shortened, lengthy protocols can

be simplified. The know-how and

free capacity of employees can

be put to use more efficiently and

to avoid duplication. Eventually,

a direct and personal style of

communication results in crystal-

clear agreements between all

internal and external parties

and disciplines.•

Crane barge IB-Marlin arrived ahead

of schedule at Willemstad, Curaçao,

where she will be deployed at the

Mega Cruise Pier project.

No.1 Spinningfields basking in the sun in January.

The new look of Hoog Catharijne2017 is going to be the year of

Hoog Catharijne, the drastically

renovated shopping mall in

Utrecht’s city centre. This

spring, shopping crowds and

rail users on their way to

Utrecht Central Station will be

able to feast their eyes on the

mall’s brand-spanking new

exterior. Realised by BAM NHC

(a joint venture of BAM Bouw

en Techniek and BAM Infra

Civiel), the buildings comprising

Utrecht’s main shopping

attraction are now a pleasure

to behold on the outside as

well as the inside. One of

them, Poortgebouw (picture),

features colourful and partly

extremely curvy façades.

Its upper levels (third storey

and higher) will eventually be

used as a hotel. Ahead of the

aboveground part, the five-floor

underground car park was

taken into use in mid-2016.•

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Innovation

Circular construction

ABN AMRO Bank chose BAM Infra

to do the structural work on the

basement of the pavilion in front

of its headquarters, while BAM

Bouw en Techniek and BAM

Advies & Engineering joined the

bank, the architect Architecten Cie.

and other project partners in the

development of a design that

fulfilled ABN AMRO’s wishes with

regard to circular construction.

‘Basically, circular construction

revolves around a chain-wide

effort to maintain or even increase

the value of raw materials. This

requires a mind-reset that lets you

see design and production as

a whole. All elements have to be

suitable for assembly and future

re-assembly’, says Sander Holm,

Sustainability Manager at BAM

Advies & Engineering.

In the run-up to the project, the

partners have reviewed designs

on the basis of criteria such as

sustainability, aesthetics, circularity

and life cycle costs. The criteria for

materials and products included

residual value, recyclability and

maintainability.

The pavilion will contain a

meeting centre and a catering

facility that will seat 200. Above

ground, the building will have

two storeys and a partial third

level. ABN AMRO will be able to

showcase this example of circular

construction later this year.•

In Amsterdam’s ‘Financial Mile’, the Zuidas business district, BAM is leading the way in circular construction. In close collaboration with its client, ABN AMRO Bank, and their mutual project partners, BAM is building a pavilion that consists almost entirely of elements that can be re-used.

The BAM Bouw en Techniek team jumps for joy at the pavilion.

Re-usability was a key factor in choosing materials and products such as fire reels, fronts and doors.

Al Ain stadium completedBAM International has completed

the original scope contract for

the Al Ain stadium mixed use

development in the emirate of Abu

Dhabi. The original scope of work

comprised six residential buildings

with retail units, a 10,000 m2 office

building, a four-star hotel, 650 m2

of food and beverage outlets,

a 1,350 car park building and

infrastructural works. The Aloft

hotel (brand of Starwood) includes

173 rooms and a variety of

facilities, such as a gym, spa,

swimming pool, and restaurants.

The project is situated next to

the earlier by BAM completed

25,000 seats Hazza Bin Zayed

stadium in Al Ain. Earlier last year

BAM was awarded an extension

to the original scope of work:

a 100-unit residential building

which is targeted to be completed

by October 2017.•8

Strategy

The BAM Bouw en Techniek team jumps for joy at the pavilion.

Project management seminar ‘Build, share, explore’

The next morning COO Erik Bax

kicked off the seminar with

a presentation in which he

connected the Group’s new

strategic agenda with personal

leadership and BAM’s four core

values. The latter were put into

practice in an interactive exercise

during which participants shared

knowledge and gained new

expertise. Ahead of the seminar,

participants had been asked to

complete an Insights Discovery

questionnaire so that personal

profiles could be drawn up that

showed their preferences and

Network building, knowledge sharing and an exploration of leadership: these were the three key focus areas of the second international Olympus project management seminar. On the evening before the seminar, the 75 participating project managers got acquainted over dinner, a pub quiz and drinks.

leadership styles. These were

then discussed on the basis

of inspirational interviews.

Afterwards Erik Bax and

two project managers shared

experiences with the audience.

The afternoon programme

revolved around leadership

workshops focusing on personal

leadership and interaction with

others, followed by a discussion

in which Rob van Wingerden

explained how he uses his

preferences in his job as CEO.

‘Evaluations showed that

participants were pleased with

the open atmosphere. They could

freely discuss things like behaviour

and awareness’, said Saskia van der

Meij, Head of Talent Management

and leader of the Olympus project.

‘We will build on these seminars in

the development of our leadership

programme, which we hope to

pilot in early 2017 with a small

group of project managers.

The final programme will then

be rolled out in the course of

2017 and 2018.’•

Sleek-lined water towersFrom B to C: BAM Lux seems

to be taking the strategy

slogan ‘Building the present,

creating the future’ quite

literally. In the Dippach

municipality in Luxembourg,

some ten kilometres west of

the Grand Duchy’s capital,

Galère’s subsidiary is realising

a drinking water station whose

shape very much resembles

the letter C.

Architect Paul Bretz, who

often uses fair-face concrete

in his designs, is the man

who came up with this unusual

shape for the water tower.

The base of the building

contains two water basins of

600 m3 each. Twenty metres

above them are two storage

tanks of 200 m3. ‘In order to

absorb the enormous forces

in the cantilevering construction

we have postensioned the concrete

with tendons in the base as well as

the cantilevering and upright parts

of the tower’, says Project Manager

Denis Franssen. The project has

a contract value of 2.3 million euro

and will be handed over in June

2017.

For a similar contract sum, BAM Lux

is realising a second and similarly

sleek water tower in Bech, some

twenty kilometres northeast of the

capital. This construction, designed

by Beiler & Francois, stands fifty

metres tall. The ‘cut-out’ corners

will be closed off with bronze-

coloured panels. This tower will

also be completed in June.•9

Major upgrade of the Kiel Canal sea lock

It ain’t half big, mum!

With over 30,000 ship movements

per year, the 100-kilometre Kiel

Canal is the world’s busiest

shipping artery. The canal, known

locally as the Nord-Ostsee-Kanal,

connects the North Sea with the

Baltic Sea. At the North Sea end,

ships enter the canal through

the old Brunsbüttel locks.

The 346-million-euro contract

to build the fifth lock chamber

was awarded to the 50/50 Dutch-

German BAM joint venture, with

BAM Infra taking half and the

two German companies each

taking a quarter.

The new lock chamber will

It’s the largest project in the

history of BAM International: the

new container terminal (phase 2A)

near Moín, Costa Rica. While

consortium partner Van Oord is

making excellent progress with the

reclamation and soil improvement

works, BAM is already laying the

foundations for the 650-metre-long

quay wall. When this is complete,

the project team will have driven

888 piles. Meanwhile the

be 360 metres long and 45 metres

wide. Project Manager Dirk Bennje:

‘The objective of the project is to

increase sufficient capacity to allow

an overhaul of the existing lock

chambers without impacting

prefabrication of 16,000 Xblocs

has been completed. The new

terminal will take almost three

years to complete. This year will see

the realisation of several parts of

the project such as the quay wall,

the tug boat port, several buildings

and the pavement of the

30-hectare port area and related

facilities. The project team

currently consists of 750 people,

with 25 different nationalities.•

The new sea lock in Brunsbüttel, Germany, is currently being realised in a joint effort by BAM Infra, Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau and Wayss & Freytag Spezialtiefbau. After thorough preparations, the contours of the fifth lock chamber are now taking shape on an island in the middle of the lock complex.

shipping traffic. It’s one of those

amazing, once-in-a-lifetime

projects.’

Bennje and his 45-strong mixed-

nationality team are facing the

challenge of realising a technically

complex project combined with

the logistical challenges of the

island location. To meet the latter,

they now have their own ferry to

transport materials, equipment and

personnel to and from the site.

At this point in time the site is

dominated mainly by the

cranes and installations of W&F

Spezialtiefbau and BAM Speciale

Technieken. Bennje: ‘The

construction pits are gradually

taking shape, while piles are

being assembled and bentonite

trenches are being dug out for

the combi walls.’•

Dirk Bennje.

The combi wall consists of sheet piles and 40-tonne double H beams.

Overview of the lock island between the existing locks.

Team members posing in front of the project’s own ferry.

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Luxurious living by the Schelde

‘These buildings are built to

the highest quality standards

in ventilation, insulation and

materials’, says Project Manager

Koen de Wit. He is currently

in charge of the construction

of block 5, which contains

16 apartments, 116 assisted

living apartments and communal

facilities. Five other projects are

in the hands of four of his fellow

project managers.

Designed to the energy-efficiency

standard of the ‘passive house’,

the buildings will meet rigorous

demands in airtightness and will

have green roofs and district

heating. Koen De Wit: ‘Each

building is by a different architect

so there is a lot of variety, despite

a sort of recurring theme of white

concrete prefab elements. The

buildings are interspersed with

green zones, which creates a park-

like environment.’

After handing over four buildings

in 2016, Interbuild is now in the

middle of structural work on

block 5 and has recently started

two new projects.•

In Antwerp’s Nieuw Zuid district, along the river Schelde, Interbuild is building a ‘green’ residential area. Developed by Triple Living the project comprises 38 buildings with a total of 2,500 apartments, student housing, offices, schools, shops and other facilities.

Five ‘Nieuw Zuid’ project managers (from left): Christoph Van Dijck, Jeroen De Vlaminck, Massimo Carroccio, Rolf Letens and Koen De Wit.

Under construction: U-shaped block 5. To the right: construction pit for block 9.

Clean air for care

One of the operating theatres realised by Interflow.

Short turn around times and high quality are key features of Interflow’s projects for the care sector. More and more often, the clean-air specialist takes on main-contractor responsibilities regarding the co-ordination of all project parties. So too on this Amsterdam project to convert a former commercial building into a state-of-the-art clinic.

many technical installations.

All plenums and the flex wall,

clean wall and clean ceiling

systems have been chosen

from Interflow’s product lines.’

After a period of commissioning

and validating the technical

systems, Interflow will hand

over the clinic in March 2017.•

Peter Breman, who manages

Interflow’s project office:

‘We are the main contractor,

but the structural knowledge

and experience of BAM Bouw

en Techniek provide substantial

added value. The centre will have

four operating theatres and the

roof will accommodate a great

A striking feature of block 4: the freely suspended balcony rooms. The steel suspension structure is attached to the roof.

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Follow us on

High Speed Two

BAM Nuttall has been awarded the Central Enabling Works Contract for High Speed Two (HS2) from London to Birmingham as part of a joint venture. The contract will be worth up to a 100 million pounds over a period of four years. The contract includes the early preparatory work needed ahead of the main civil engineering work for the scheme, including archaeology, site clearance and setting up construction compounds. Work is due to begin in spring 2017.

Multi-faith school

BAM Design and BAM Construction have been appointed to design and build the 25 million pounds Nishkam School in West London. The all-through school with a sixth form will provide places for 1,400 pupils and be set over two and three storeys with four wings radiating from a central hub. The school has several interesting environmental aspects: an extensive solar array on the roof, electric charging points in the car park, and the football field will be used for storm attenuation.

Collection Building Museum

The Municipality of Rotterdam has awarded BAM Bouw en Techniek the contract for the construction of the Collection Building for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The mirror-clad building designed by architectural firm MVRDV will house a public art depot. The contract value is approximately 43 million euro. Completion is expected in 2019.

BAM World is compiled by Monica van Soldt, Royal BAM Group nv, Corporate Communications, P.O. Box 20, 3980 CA Bunnik, The Netherlands, telephone +31 (0)30 659 86 23, e-mail bamworld@bamgroep.nlPhotography De Beeldredaktie, Adam Bradley, Sandy Cordiner, Ossip van Duivenbode, Chris Henderson, Fotografie Jonathan Vos, Walter Saenen, Patrick ZierDesign Boulogne Jonkers Vormgeving, Zoetermeer Printing MediaCenter Rotterdam

The Swan opens its wings againRotterdam’s favourite landmark, Erasmus Bridge a.k.a. The Swan, is functioning smoothly again. Its 20-year-old mechanism was in urgent need of an overhaul and BAM Infra Verkeerstechniek has been working hard to complete the entire operation within an extremely tight time frame.

a key member of the team that

completed the project to fully

replace the operating and

control systems of Erasmus

and six other bridges.

‘During the closure we replaced

all control panels, working 24/7

the first four days to complete the

replacement and hardware testing.

After that, testing the movable

parts and commissioning the

bridge deck and all safety features

were only allowed during the

night’, says Bakker, who has

been pleased to be part of the

experienced team together with

Project Manager Kees den Dulk,

Lead Engineer René Buitelaar and

Site Manager Martijn Limberg.•

Rotterdam’s favourite, The Swan, opens its wings.

Emiel Bakker at one of the control panels.

Celebrating success at BAM FMHannah Greenhalgh, Facilities

Manager at Derbyshire D Division

Police Headquarters, is named

BAM FM’s Outstanding Team

Member of the Year in the UK.

Louise Williamson, Managing

Director BAM FM, presented

Hannah with the highest accolade

at the company’s annual managers’

conference, hosted in Birmingham

in January.

Louise received an email from the

Deputy Police Constable at

Derbyshire Police Constabulary,

who personally thanked Hannah for

making huge strides in improving

the service delivery at the site.

She has overseen a number of

challenging projects, including

relocating 250 police officers

at short notice with minimal

disruption to their day-to-day work.

As well as winning the overall prize,

Hannah took home the Excellence

in Customer Service Delivery

award. She was among eight

winners at the annual event, which

recognises the best of the best

from the winners of the company’s

monthly employee recognition

scheme BAM FM Stars.

The other winners included: Elaine

Lock, in the Health and Safety

category, East Ayrshire Community

Hospital team, winner of the

Sustainability award, Mark Turner,

recognised for Innovation, Liza

Adnams, winner of the Living the

Values award, Sandra Rogers,

praised for Inspiring Others and

Nicu Toma, who was awarded for

Going Above and Beyond.•

Louise Williamson (left) presents Hannah Greenhalgh with the Outstanding Team Member of the Year Award.

After a 10-day closure of the New

Meuse shipping route, it was a

nail-biting moment for all

concerned when the renovated

Erasmus Bridge was due to open

for the first time. Then it was

smiles all around when at 10am

exactly the bells began to ring

and the barriers came down.

The bridge deck was raised and

The Swan opened its wings again.

Design Manager Emiel Bakker was

one of the proud onlookers and

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