The Queen meets BAM team … · Queen Elizabeth performed the traditional topping out ceremony by unveiling a plaque at BAM Construction’s Leeds Arena project on 19 July. The Queen,

Tuesday 23 October 2012

BAM’s next Worldwide Safety Day is set for Tuesday 23 October 2012. For the third year this event to raise safety awareness will run across all our operating companies, regions, projects and offices. Again all managers at BAM companies will focus on the importance of achieving improvements in safety performance. All companies in the Group will be participating and developing messages and campaigns in line with the world wide Safety Day theme. The meetings will be held either on building sites or at regional and other offices. In addition, staff employed by construction partners (subcontractors and suppliers) are also welcome to attend.www.bamsafe.eu

It was a proud day for BAM when Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth performed the traditional topping out ceremony by unveiling a plaque at BAM Construction’s Leeds Arena project on 19 July.The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, was in Leeds as part of her

Diamond Jubilee tour of the UK. The tour began at Leeds Arena where the royal couple met members of the BAM team and construction workers who are building the £60 million venue, which is due to be completed later this year. After enjoying an aerial acrobatic display and musical performances by local school children, the royal couple

Newsletter of Royal BAM Group nv, volume 9, number 3, Autumn 2012

Royal openings

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands has opened the Friesland provincial government building in Leeuwarden (north Netherlands). She raised the Friesian flag, whereupon a porcelain suit of armour was unveiled. BAM Utiliteitsbouw,

as part of a joint venture, was responsible for the construction of the new government building, which was designed by architect Sjoerd Soeters, and for the restoration of a historic wing.

Meanwhile King Albert of Belgium has opened the Diabolo rail project at

Zaventem Airport, near Brussels. Riding on a special train, the king travelled through the new railway tunnel that runs under the airport’s runway. The project, which also included work on the airport roads as well as the traffic links to the E19 motorway, was completed by the Dialink joint venture, in which CEI-De Meyer and Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau were represented.

The Queen meets BAM team

The site team

at Leeds Arena.

then went on to officially open the recently renovated City Varieties Hall, another one

of BAM’s projects in the North East.

Royal train ride.

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The new Vollenhoverbrug on the boundary of two of the Netherlands’ eastern provinces has been opened in spectacular style. BAM Civiel and HSM Steel Structures were responsible for the design and construction of the bridge. Arend Rutgers, architect of A&E Architecten, which is part of BAM Utiliteitsbouw, designed the graceful bridge.

BAM Supply Chain Management

Graceful bridge!

To support you in achieving your ambitions within the Group, and to allow you to realise your potential BAM will launch an International Recruitment Website September 2012. Its purpose is to broaden your horizons to career opportunities available to you throughout BAM’s worldwide operations. For the first time, all BAM employees will be able to view the vacancies of all operating companies in one location. The site will provide information about BAM’s operating companies, their projects and interviews, and provide you with contact details

department) announced the improvement of the A12 motorway recently carried out.The road-widening project by BAM PPP – on a thirty kilometre

stretch of the A12 motorway near Utrecht – was opened to traffic three months ahead of schedule with extra lanes in both directions. This is to be followed by work on connecting roads, local roads, ecological provisions and green areas. The project as a whole will be concluded in March 2013, which is another two years earlier than originally planned.www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/a12utrechtveenendaal

Drilling for dyke data

For client Rijkswaterstaat (Public Works department) BAM Nelis de Ruiter is conducting pulse borings in and around the picturesque village of Marken, situated in the Markermeer to the east of Amsterdam. Head of Geomonitoring Michel Bosboom: ‘Rijkswaterstaat needs additional information about the dyke to calculate its stability. We are placing level indicators in the borings that will show variations in the height of the groundwater. Once every fourteen days we report the measurements to Rijkswaterstaat. The dyke runs through the village, which is why we are working so close to the traditional houses there. The position of the rooms, cellars and foundations of the houses located on the dyke will also be recorded.’

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Organic hospital

The construction of the vast new Isala clinics building in Zwolle, in the northern Netherlands, is not yet completed, but the organic design of the hospital by the Alberts & Van Huut firm of architects is already clearly visible. The slanting lines and the palette of colours predominate, both in the interior and on the outside walls, as well as in the atriums. The work is done by the Designed to Build (D2B) joint venture, in which BAM Utiliteitsbouw is responsible for the construction of the building and BAM Techniek (with partners) is in charge of the m&e works. Other (group) companies involved are BAM Infratechniek, BAM Nelis De Ruiter and Interflow. The hospital will be completed in 2013.www.isalabouwt.nl

Drilling engineer Jaap Kuijt (left) and

assistant drilling engineer Jos Ooteman conduct pulse borings.

to discuss current vacancies, or future opportunities. Retaining excellent employees and developing potential is a pillar of the Groups Strategic Agenda and you will receive the support you need to move from one company to another within your own country or further afield.

BAM Strategic (sourcing) Agenda. Chief Procurement Officer Frank Oort then explained and discussed Supply Chain Management and its influence at BAM. Frank Rozemeijer (Maastricht University) presented techniques for TCO reduction and lean management. Daniel Kleinbub, procurement manager of Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau: ‘Rozemeijer’s presentation on Supplier Relationship Management was very interesting and motivational, especially his examination of procurement from an academic point of view.’

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Some green and orange material, a small stretch of guard rail... this is the scene for the special TV advert in which Rijkswaterstaat (Public Works

www.myBAMCareer.com

Fifteen procurement managers for BAM subsidiaries from the Middle East to Ireland gathered in Bunnik for a two-day seminar on BAM Supply Chain Management. The event’s programme started on the first day with a presentation of the

Green alternative to concrete surface

In co-operation with other partners, BAM Wegen has developed a sustainable alternative to the traditional concrete surface. The product, known as ViaVerde, was used for the first time for the construction of a car park near Utrecht.‘If you want to make your infrastructure sustainable, then you also have to look at your materials purchasing policy. With ViaVerde, traditional Portland cement has largely been replaced as a binding agent by a combination of lignite fly ash and ground granulated blast furnace slag. Secondary aggregates are used as well. The result is a considerable reduction in CO2 emissions and a limited use of primary raw materials’, explains BAM Infraconsult innovation manager, Ad van ’t Zelfde.

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Wallasea Island jetty completed

Slender viaduct on black pillars

High notes!

Construction of the 180 metre Crossrail jetty at Wallasea Island in Essex is now complete. This is an important milestone in the use of rail and ship to sustainably transport excavated material from London to create a new 1,500 acre RSPB nature reserve. The reserve is one of the largest new wetland nature habitats in Europe. The jetty will be ready to receive the first shipments of 4.5 million tonnes of clean, uncontaminated and

The team of contractors from BAM Construction working on the new £16 million Bramall Music Building at the University of Birmingham were treated to an impromptu hard hat concert by a brass quintet. As well as creating some light entertainment for the team, the concert has also given performers a valuable insight to the acoustics of the hall. The Bramall Music Building will provide a 450-seat auditorium for music, opera, drama and prestigious lectures as well as state-of-the-art rehearsal and practice rooms and recording facilities. The building will also be an outstanding venue for conferences and events upon completion in September.

In joint venture with CFE and Aelterman, Galère is building a new railway viaduct in Luxembourg City. The six pillars, coloured black through the addition of graphite to the concrete, are now neatly in position, directly alongside an 1859 railway viaduct over the Alzette River. Later this year, the joint venture will start sliding the steel lattice construction into place which will bear the superstructure

Building a diamond in the City of Diamonds

BAM’s Belgian building company Interbuild has started construction of the new Port House in Antwerp. The new headquarters of Antwerp Port Authority have been designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. The 12,800 m2 development consists of a glazed extension above the former fire station, supported asymmetrically on three concrete pillars. Clad in glass and aluminum, the 46 metre-high extension overlooks the city and port. The construction value amounts to approximately €50 million. The construction period is 33 months.

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BAM Construction has begun a state-of-the-art advanced blade casting facility for Rolls-Royce in Rotherham. It will manufacture high technology single crystal turbine blades for large civil aero engines. The 14,000 m2 facility will be one of the most advanced blade casting facilities in the world, featuring groundbreaking manufacturing techniques such as 3D structured light for geometry inspection.The Advanced Blade Casting Facility is expected to produce its first blades in late 2014, and to be capable of manufacturing 100,000 blades per year when fully operational. The single crystal turbine blade is a critical component of jet engines and there are over 65 in every Trent engine.

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Campbeltown Pier extension

BAM Nuttall is halfway through work on a £4.5 million contract to extend one of the quays at Campbeltown’s harbour on behalf of the local authority Argyll and Bute Council. The site team is installing a new 1,220 millimetre diameter steel tube and sheet combi wall at depths of 39 metre offset from the existing wall so that it can accommodate larger ships ready to carry giant newly fabricated wind turbine masts produced just outside the town.The new wall will help future proof the harbour, providing more than enough resistance to failure for

the high loads imposed on it by the heavy steel turbine masts. Site agent Ian McWhinnie: ‘Wind turbine masts are getting longer and heavier and so that extra penetration is needed to help overcome any possibility of overturning due to increased loading from freight.’

reusable material excavated during Crossrail’s tunnelling operations in London. The jetty, constructed by BAM Nuttall, comprises two 800 tonne steel pontoons, each 15 metres wide, and is able to accommodate two 90 metre, 2,500 tonne ships simultaneously. The contract to transport excavated material was awarded to a BAM Nuttall/Van Oord UK joint venture.

of the 293-metre long viaduct.‘The project actually consists of three parts. The viaduct itself, to which is connected a tunnel one hundred metres long, and a 240-metre long concrete caisson’, explains Galère project manager, Thibaut Vandermeulen. The project means that the CFL railway company will be able to double its track capacity on the northern side of Luxembourg City railway station.

Thibaut Vandermeulen

The site team in front

of the TBM.

Corrib tunnel

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New member of the Executive Board

The extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of BAM has appointed Mrs T. Menssen MBA as a member of the Executive Board with effect from 1 October 2012. At year end Thessa Menssen (45) will become chief financial officer succeeding Jan Ruis, who is retiring after forty years with the Group. After obtaining a degree in mechanical engineering and training Master of Business Administration Thessa Menssen joined Unilever. In 2006 she moved to Port of Rotterdam Authority, where she is currently chief operating officer at the Executive Board.

The Irish trade union for the communications industry – the CWU – has returned to its head office in Dublin, after the historic property underwent major renovation and fit-out works. BAM Contractors completed the €6 million project this spring. Architects Anthony Reddy Associates have shown how well the historic facades of the building, which was originally a school and dates from the mid-nineteenth century, can fit with a modern extension.

Historic building restored for CWU

BAM Deutschland has started work on the building of a congress centre in the heart of Frankfurt. Skyline Plaza,

The streets and cellars in the lower areas of the Schöneberg Friedenau district of Berlin regularly flood during heavy rain. To end this, Berliner Wasserbetriebe decided to build an underground drainage tunnel. Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau project manager Uwe Jungnickel: ‘The new underground tunnel will be used for collecting and draining excess rainfall. However, its route will cross a road and underground railway tunnel. We are making a culvert construction, consisting of

Berlin rain under control

Uwe Jungnickel (right)

together with senior site

agent Jens Richter and

site agent Thorsten

Praulinsch (centre).

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BAM Civil and Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau have been awarded the contract by Shell E&P Ireland for the construction of a 4.9 kilometer tunnel as part of the Corrib gas project, one of the largest energy infrastructure developments in Ireland in 2012. The tunnel, which lies eighty kilometres of the north-west coast of Ireland, is a key element of the onshore pipeline works, which is the final phase of the Corrib project. Work on the contract has already commenced. As soon as the tunnel has been constructed and the TBM with an internal diameter of 3.5 metres has been removed, the 20-inch gas pipeline will be installed in the tunnel. The project is expected to be completed in late 2014.

BAM erected a completely new steel construction inside the building and built a wing behind the original building, with a parking garage at ground level. BAM Building, the building operating company of BAM Contractors was also responsible for finishes. The creation of a roof garden was also part of the project.

Frankfurt Congress Centre

because of the need to create sufficient depth for ore carriers. To install the 70 to 94-ton piles, the joint venture is using two pontoons with a 600-ton caterpillar crane with a jib length of 78 or 84 metres.

Tubular piles sunk deep!

It is hard to say for certain, but a one hundred-metre long steel tubular pile that the BAM International, McConnell Dowell and See Young joint venture recently sunk for the construction of a jetty off the Malaysian coast could be the world’s longest.The joint venture has now put in place a quarter of the 832 piles, most of which are eighty to one hundred metres long. Such lengths are necessary because of the condition of the soil, and

in the new Europa district near Frankfurter Messe, will host conferences, exhibitions and trade fairs. The four-storey

building by ECE Project Management, will include

a one thousand-capacity room, a partitionable

room for six hundred visitors, and twelve smaller meeting rooms. The project has a contract value of over €30 million and includes the fitting out of the interior.www.skylineplaza.de

two shafts that the drainage tunnel will be connected to, before installing the pumps

and electrical equipment on both sides of the road tunnel, with the culvert being drilled between it.’