High-level agreement

Newsletter of Royal BAM Group nv, volume 7, number 3, September 2010

Floating a hundred metres up in the air, under a hot-air balloon that had just been released from the new build site in Hengelo (in the east of the Netherlands), Tebodin, BAM Utiliteitsbouw and BAM Techniek signed an agreement for a new office for

Tebodin Hengelo. Engineering consultants Tebodin have nine offices in the Netherlands.Together with BAM Techniek, Beltman Architecten and Tebodin, BAM Utiliteitsbouw succeeded in drawing up a plan for a sustainable office with a

surface area of 3,500 m2 in a very short period of time.Construction will start in mid-October 2010, and Tebodin will take occupancy approximately one year later.

Fast guided busway

BAM Nuttall has started construction of the Luton Dunstable Busway for Luton Borough Council under a contract worth over £50 million to the company. The route, which is more than thirteen kilometres long, largely follows a former railway line. To a large extent, the busway will be built

as a guided busway, with a ‘track’ in each direction consisting of two concrete beams with an eighteen centimetre-high raised outside edge. When completed in 2012, the new busway will provide a fast, reliable public transport link between the centres of Dunstable and Luton and out to Luton Airport. www.luton.gov.uk/busway

Marina Bay promenades

Singapore’s Prime Minister recently opened the URA

company was also involved in an adjacent promenade in Singapore’s Marina Bay: the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) Promenade (left).The designs were complex and difficult. But DMC, together with the Australian client and contractor McConnell Dowell South East Asia, were able to rationalise the designs and not only cut costs but dramatically increase the feasibility of the client’s desired schedule.

Waterfront Promenade (right). Delta Marine Consultants (BAM Infraconsult) took part in the design of the structure. The

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Princess Máxima opens university

Dutch Princess Máxima (extreme left) has officially opened the new NHL University complex in Leeuwarden (in the north of the Netherlands) built by BAM Utiliteitsbouw in a ring-shaped design around the original concrete-block building. The university provides 73 higher professional education courses in the applied sciences to more than ten thousand students.

Super-fast networks

BAM Infratechniek has laid 58 kilometres of fibre optic cables and pipes in a business park at Schiphol Airport, including the fibre optic networks of fourteen providers. BAM Infratechniek specialises in the installation of these super-fast networks. Each cable has 96 glass fibres only nine micrometres in diameter and these are welded one by one in a process that can easily take four or five hours.

Group News

Safety Awareness

Tebodin has adopted a new, simplified reporting system called SAFE which stands for Safety Awareness For Everyone. Tebodin wanted to get away from the old time-consuming system with all its forms and paperwork, so the company replaced it with a handy notepad that people can use to

describe an incident or near-accident with a few keywords. All they then have to do is tear the

sheet off and send it in. Simple, user-friendly and effective. Tebodin has developed a special training course in parallel with the new system, which is also designed to increase safety awareness.

Sustainable stadiums

The Holland/Belgium Bid team recently presented FIFA president Sepp Blatter with its bid book to help bring the football World Cup to the Netherlands and Belgium in 2018 or 2022. The book includes proposals for fourteen sustainable stadiums and presentations on mobility and infrastructure. As an official partner, BAM has designed new stadiums for Bruges and Charleroi and extensions to existing stadiums in Genk and Eindhoven. FIFA also received the toolkit BAM has developed for sustainable stadium construction, with its emphasis on multifunctionality as well as energy and technical issues. FIFA decides on 2 December which countries will host the World Cup in 2018 and 2022. www.thebid.org

Netherlands

PPP highway

The Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) has awarded BAM the PPP project for widening the thirty kilometre long section of the A12 motorway between Utrecht and Veenendaal. BAM is responsible for design, construction, financing and maintenance of the section over a period of twenty years. The contract value is €260 million. BAM will start the road works in February 2011. The project inv olving BAM PPP, BAM Wegen, BAM Civiel, BAM Infratechniek and BAM Infraconsult comprises the construction of a third lane in both directions and the construction and modification of viaducts and traffic installations. The construction period is eighteen months.

Deep gas storage

BAM Leidingen & Industrie, part of BAM Infratechniek, together with BAM Civiel and BAM Wegen, is building a huge complex near Zuidwending in the northern Netherlands for the storage of gas in underground caverns a kilometre below the surface. The client, Zuidwending vof, is using the approximately 350-metre-high, egg shaped

describe an incident or near-accident with a few keywords. All they then have to do is

sheet off and send it in. Simple, cavities left empty by salt extraction to create buffer storage capacity of around 180 million m3. As well as pumps, compressors, cooling towers and furnaces, the installation has scrubbers, cyclones and separators to clean the natural gas. The metering lines that accurately measure how much gas goes in and out are another vital link in the production chain.

Vertical garden

Mostert De Winter (BAM Wegen) and a French supplier have jointly developed a vertical garden, a green facade system called

Modulogreen, that provides a sustainable solution to the cladding of interior and exterior facades. Operations manager Hans van Cooten says: ‘The lightweight material has to be absolutely dimensionally stable and not

shrink or expand when exposed to temperature changes. We think it is also essential for the substrate, the substance the plants grow in , to run from top to bottom so the plants can put down deep roots. This cuts down on maintenance.’ www.modulogreen.nl

Mosaic tiled roof

The fifteenth century Hôtel-Dieu in the French wine town of Beaune is the model for a new hostel for the homeless in The Hague. BAM Woningbouw is building the complex for The Hague Council. The architects, Soeters Van Eldonk

Architecten, were inspired in their design by this medieval hospital in the centre of Beaune. With its courtyard layout, famous mosaic roof and dozens of bay windows, it is now a museum. The new complex has a mix of short and long-stay dormitories, recreation areas, a canteen and offices. BAM Woningbouw expects to complete the €6 million project in late 2011.

Clean rooms

Interflow, a subsidiary of BAM Techniek, has constructed a clean room at the Dutch Burns Foundation (Nederlandse Brand-wondenstichting) in Beverwijk (near Amsterdam) that has been specifically designed for the preparation and storage of corneas. Interflow specialises in clean air in production environments, from advice and design to the construction and validation of clean rooms, operating theatres and pharmaceutical preparation rooms. In Beverwijk, the company is responsible for the whole layout and all fittings, including the walls, floors and ceilings, as well as air conditioning, cooling and other installations.

Kevin Davies (left) and Michel Vermeulen

position the cables in a joint sleeve.

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Belgium

Brussels rail expansion

An essential feature of the expansion of the rail network in and around Brussels is the new, nearly a mile long Schuman rail tunnel under the Belgian capital’s European district. A range of construction techniques are being employed to ensure minimum impact on the surrounding area. This complex project, which joins two underground lines and winds its way between other tunnels, is being built by CEI-De Meyer, Galère and Wayss & Freytag. The contract is worth €210 million, with sixty per cent going to BAM.

United Kingdom

Borders Railway

BAM (BAM PPP, BAM Nuttall and BAM Rail) is one of the three consortia shortlisted by Transport Scotland to discuss proposals for delivering the Borders Railway and associated infrastructure (‘competitive dialogue’). The 49-kilometre railway line from Edinburgh Waverley to Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders is due to be reopened in 2014 after a gap of 45 years.

Q3 Academy

Over 1,100 students at the Q3 Academy in Birmingham, a secondary school offering professional education courses, have been housed in brand new facilities built by BAM Construction. It took the operating company only eighteen months to complete the 8,500 m² complex, including classrooms for practical work and theory and a three-hundred-seat theatre. Great Barr’s Q3 Academy records excellent environmental performance. www.q3academy.org.uk

Principal seat of European Council

Interbuild has won a joint venture contract for the construction of the principal seat of the European Council. The contract includes the extension and renovation of Résidence Palace in the centre of the European quarter of Brussels. The project value amounts to approximately €180 million, seventy per cent of which is for Interbuild. The client is Regie der Gebouwen (Buildings Agency). Interbuild will work in joint venture with Cegelec (part of the French Vinci group) and the Belgian company ITB, which will be responsible for most M&E works. The joint venture is expected to complete the project in 2013.

Upgrade Victoria tube station

A VINCI/BAM Nuttall joint venture has been awarded a contract by Transport for London (TfL) to upgrade Victoria tube station. The contract value for BAM Nuttall amounts to more than £130 million. Victoria tube station is considered to be one of the busiest and most congested on the network, serving eighty million passengers every year. The VINCI/BAM Nuttall joint venture will reconfigure Victoria station, creating a brand new ticket hall, doubling in size the existing southern ticket hall, and installing new entrances, nine new escalators and step free access. Construction of the first phase is due to begin in 2011 and will be completed in 2016. The remainder of the upgrade works will be completed by 2018.

Carnegie Pavilion

HRH The Duke of Gloucester has officially opened the new £21 million Carnegie Pavilion at Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Designed by architect Will Alsop, the dual-use facility has been developed by BAM Construction as the result of a partnership between Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) and Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC). YCCC will use the facility during the summer holidays as a cricket pavilion, which will boast a media centre, improved player changing and treatment rooms, hospitality suites and spectator seating. During the academic year, the 4,000 m2 Carnegie Pavilion will be used by the university as a teaching facility. The media centre and hospitality suites will be used as a lecture theatre and teaching space.

National Centre for Network Rail

Network Rail has awarded the contract to build the company’s National Centre in Milton Keynes to BAM Construction. The contract value amounts to approximately £100 million. The 41,000 m2 building is scheduled to open in 2012. BAM Construction is already working as a consultant on the project, having been

awarded a pre-construction services contract by Network Rail in December 2009. The National Centre will house three thousand employees, and the scheme also includes a seven-hundred-space multi-storey car park.

Enhancing Liverpool’s harbour front

The waterfront in Liverpool has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2004. This is in part thanks to the Royal Liver Building, completed in 1911 by BAM Nuttall. With the Mann Island project, BAM Construction is adding another jewel to the protected city landscape. The Mann Island Project includes an office building of 13,000 m2 and two apartment buildings designed by Broadway Malyan from Liverpool. There are a total of 376 flats in the apartment buildings in eighty different types: from one-room studios to spacious triplex penthouses, with an underground car park of two storeys with room for 465 cars. The ground floor is intended for commercial premises. In collaboration with BAM Construction BAM Nuttall completed a new canal basin that is connected to the Mersey River. The total project value is £105 million and will be finished in early 2012.

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Germany

Shopping in Boulevard Berlin

BAM Deutschland and joint venture partner Max Bögl Bauunternehmen have won the contract to build the second stage of the Boulevard Berlin shopping centre right in the middle of one of the capital’s main shopping streets, Schloßstraße. The first stage, including the Karstadt department store as key

tenant, was opened in April 2009. The project as a whole, with a floor area of 76,000 m2, its own metro station, and parking for 1,200 cars, is due for completion in the spring of 2012.

Ireland

Carlow County Museum

Carlow Town Council appointed BAM Building as the main contractor for the extension of Carlow County Museum. The work involves the restoration of the former Presentation Convent on College Street. The building is in a prime town centre location and is part of a complex that already houses the County Library, Archives and the Tourist Office. Since 2003 Carlow County Museum, on behalf of the National Museum of Ireland, collect archaeological finds from the county.

Cork County Library opens

The Cork County Library built by BAM Contractors was officially opened last June by Derry Canty, Mayor of County Cork. This new six storey over basement library building extends to 4,500 m2 . It forms part of the Civic Campus linking to the adjacent Cork County Hall which was comprehensively refurbished and handed over in 2006 by BAM. Both the Library and the County Hall Refurbishment were designed by Shay Cleary Architects. ‘We are very happy to have been involved in this prestigious development which provides such an important service to the community’, said Theo Cullinane CEO of BAM Contractors at the opening.

Flawless logistics planning

BAM Deutschland needed no fewer than 35 tower cranes to build the shell of the new six-floor Berlin-Schönefeld airport terminal (total area 225,000 m²). From 2011, Berlin-Tegel airport will close and the new Berlin Brandenburg International will handle over 25 million air travellers a year.BAM Deutschland’s project manager Volker Müller says, ‘Building between two

operational runways called for flawless logistics planning. Every movement of people and materials, including over a thousand precast exposed concrete elements and, during the peak period, no fewer than 1,200 building site workers, had to be meticulously planned and coordinated with the client. It was an absolutely huge job!’

From left: Martin Riordan, Cork County Manager,

Shay Cleary, Shay Cleary Architects, Derry Canty,

Mayor of Cork County and Theo Cullinane.

Tebodin expands network

Tebodin Consultants & Engineers has opened a new branch in Guangzhou in China’s southern province of Guangdong. The new office will focus on the industrial, chemical and pharmaceutical sectors. Tebodin has also set up new offices in Rostov, Russia, and Sohar, Oman. Rostov is the fourth permanent Tebodin office in Russia (following Moscow, St Petersburg and Ekaterinburg) and was launched to help achieve the company’s strategic plans in the southern region.

McNuggetsTM

In Russia, Tebodin is responsible for the engineering of a new chicken processing plant for client Cargill Meats Europe. After the construction, the plant in Efremov 330 kilometres south of Moscow will be a chicken processing facility with an annual capacity of 18,000 tons. Cargill has a longstanding partnership with

McDonald’s. From day one the priority for McDonald’s Russia has been the creation and development of a local supplier base, and working on the opportunities for a local supply source of poultry meets the company’s

expectations. Tebodin was asked to do the basic design and prepare a complete design package for the permitting procedure. Tebodin is now working on the contractor pre-selection. The plant has to be operational by the end of 2011.

People

Chairman Executive BoardJoop van Oosten will hand over the chairmanship of the Executive Board of Royal BAM Group to Nico de Vries (picture) on 1 October 2010.

Van Oosten will retire on 31 March 2011 (at the age of 63) after a career with the Group which has spanned 35 years. De Vries (58) has been employed by Royal BAM Group since 1977. He was appointed a member of the Executive Board in 1998 and vice-chairman in 2007. With effect from 1 April 2011 the Executive Board will consist of Nico de Vries (chairman), Martin Rogers, Jan Ruis (CFO) and Rob van Wingerden.

HR director appointedRoyal BAM Group’s Executive Board has appointed Paul Leliefeld as director of human resources from

1 September 2010. Leliefeld joined BAM in 2008 as deputy director with special responsibility for, among other things, compliance and talent management. Leliefeld succeeds Tom van Beek, who wishes to concentrate full-time on his role as director of corporate social responsibility.

Awards

Gold for BAM PlantWellinborough-based businesses and organisations have been honoured in the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2010. Among the town’s top performing companies were DHL/Homebase and BAM Plant winning gold awards.

Supplier of the YearBAM Nuttall was awarded the Supplier of the Year Award by Network Rail for demonstrating quality and best practice and contributing the most to the success of the whole rail service during 2009. BAM Nuttall also picked up the award for Team Contribution for its work on Derby Station.

Third award Soccer CityBest designed and best developed soccer stadium: Soccer City in Johannesburg, built by BAM International in joint venture with Grinaker-LTA, has won a SAPOA (South African Property Owners Association) innovative Excellence Award  2010. This is the third award scooped by the stadium which won the Fulton Award and the Steel Award.

Worldwide

Xblocs for Australia

BAM Decorient Indonesia, part of BAM International, is making 22,000 Xbloc armour units for the construction of a two-and-a-half-kilometre breakwater on Barrow Island, off the north-west coast of Australia, to protect the jetty at Chevron’s Gorgon LNG project. The Xblocs, developed and patented by BAM Infraconsult, are being made in Cigading dockyard in north-west Java (near Krakatoa),

using forty steel moulds sprayed white to minimise solar heating and then taken by barge to Barrow Island. By early August, more than 7,000 Xblocs had already been produced. The work will take sixteen months.

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

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