Royal BAM

Profit at Royal Bam’s two UK operations more than doubled in 2021. The adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for Bam Construct jumped from €4.3m (£3.6m) to €30.9m (£25.8m). Its Netherlands-based parent company cited increased work levels and a favourable claim settlement for boosting its returns. Revenue…

Morgan Sindall, Kier and Galliford Try are among firms on a new £1.8bn framework covering the North West. The framework has been split between building and infrastructure works and contains different value lots. The highest value band is for projects worth more than £30m. The projects covered include construction work…

Bam Construct has won a £110m contract to refurbish Space House in central London. Across the two buildings that make up the complex, the contractor will add two new floors to the 15-storey tower and connect it to the eight story block via a top floor extension. It will also…

Bam Construct is set to start work on the £300m Gateshead Arena after taking over from fellow contractor Sir Robert McAlpine.  According to Gateshead Council, developer Ask Patrizia has instructed Bam Construct to begin preparatory works on the site, which lies between the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and Sage…

Winvic took top spot in November’s contract league after scooping bumper jobs to construct warehouses and build-to-rent housing. The Northampton-based contractor beat its nearest competitor to the summit by nearly £80m, according to data gathered by construction intelligence provider Glenigan. Winvic landed a £93m job to develop phase two of…

Bam Construct, Kier and Willmott Dixon are among the five contractors to scoop places on both high-value lots of the Department for Education’s (DfE) mammoth £7bn building framework. A total of 26 contractors have been picked on the 22 separate lots on the four-year framework, which is split into regional…

Former Kier director John Wilkinson will head up Royal Bam’s operations in the UK and Ireland as part of the group’s latest restructure. Royal Bam Group, which is based in the Netherlands, has altered its structure so its two divisions will be based on the geography of the group. Previously,…

Bam Construct has been appointed to build a new ultra-green school designed to set the standard for future buildings. The Department for Education (DfE) has awarded Bam a contract understood to be worth around £30m to deliver the school, Southam College in Warwickshire. It will cater to more than 1,650…

Fifteen contractors, including Balfour Beatty, Kier and Morgan Sindall, have won places on a new £500m framework to deliver new-build, infrastructure and refurbishment works for the public sector in Scotland. The Scottish Procurement Alliance’s Public Buildings and Infrastructure framework, also known as PB3, is open to public sector organisations to…

Councillors have approved construction of the first phase of a £220m Bam Construct university upgrade project in Yorkshire. Sheffield City Council’s Planning and Highways Committee this week granted planning consent for three new buildings on Sheffield Hallam University’s city campus. Bam, design consultants BDP-Arup and facility manager CBRE were appointed…