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Bam Construct has been appointed as contractor for a 12,000 square metre office building in Manchester for relocated civil servants. The company has agreed terms for Plot 9a at Manchester’s First Street site with lead developer Ask Real Estate, which is taking the project forward with its joint venture partner,…

Royal Bam has secured a credit facility worth €330m (£283.4m), which will be tied to its net-zero carbon and safety commitments. The Netherlands-headquartered multinational, which owns UK civils firm Bam Nuttall and builder Bam Construct, secured the four-year loan with nine separate European banks. The duration of the loan, set…

Bam Nuttall interim managing director Ian Parish is retiring after having served for a year in the post. The company is now interviewing candidates to replace Parish, who is expected to leave by the end of the year. He was appointed to the top job last October, replacing Adrian Savory,…

Contractors have been alerted to a £616m building and consultancy framework for NHS projects in Wales. The second-generation framework will replace an existing one that started in 2018 and is due to run out in April 2024. It will be managed by the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership – an…

The projected cost of building a women and children’s unit at a hospital has trebled, and has been delayed by four years. The price of the project, at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Treliske, has grown from £100m to £291.7m and its completion date has been pushed back from 2024…

Bam Construct has been awarded an £84.5m job to build a mental health facility in Bodelwyddan, Wales. The contractor will develop a 63-bed facility at Glan Clwyd hospital, in the north of Wales. It won the work via the £560m NHS Building for Wales framework. Betsi Cadwaladr University’s (BCU) Health…

Bam’s UK and Ireland businesses have set a target to achieve net zero carbon emissions in their direct operations by 2026. The company said this went beyond Royal Bam Group’s target to reduce its direct emissions by 80 per cent by 2026 from 2015 levels. Bam said it would not…

Several of the UK’s top contractors will limit work or completely shut sites during the Queen’s funeral next week. Earlier this week, the Construction Leadership Council told firms that there was no obligation on them to suspend business during the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, as per government guidance. It…

Former Bam Construct boss, Doug Keillor, has joined Robertson Construction as executive managing director. The role is a new one, as Robertson Construction restructures into one firm instead of two, with a new board of directors. Previously, the firm had two divisions for the north and south of the UK,…

The government has announced plans to sell £1.5bn worthof property assets over the next three years, as part of a drive to generate savings by consolidating staff into fewer buildings.A further £500m of savings will be sought by reducing operating costs, using modern building materials and energy sources, and cutting…