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Bam Construction has confirmed that an air conditioning failure that scuppered this week’s opening concert at its Manchester Co-Op Live arena was unrelated to a previously-discovered issue with ductwork. The Co-op Live arena called off Wednesday night’s (1 May) scheduled Boogie Wit Da Hoodie show after part of an air…

Pre-tax profit at Bam Construct & Ventures fell by more than a quarter in 2022 after it set aside £20m to deal with an unnamed contract. The company’s profit totalled £14.6m in the year ending 31 December 2022, compared with £20.4m the year before, delivering a 1.5 per cent margin…

Royal Bam Group has named former Lendlease finance chief Kim Sides as its new head of UK building. She will formally become executive director of construction for UK and Ireland at the Dutch parent company on Tuesday 2 April. Sides replaces James Wimpenny, who retired in January, and will report…

Collapsing concrete at a four-year-old school building in Scotland was an “isolated issue”, according to the contractor that built it. Earlier this month, concrete fell from the ceiling of a fitness suite at Jedburgh Grammar Campus, which was completed by Bam Construction for the Scottish Borders Council in 2020. Now…

Turnover was stable but pre-tax profit fell in Bam’s UK construction arm in 2023, partly due to rising costs on an unnamed major project. Bam Construct & Ventures said it made revenue of €1.05bn (£900m) for the calendar year, compared with €1.06bn in 2022, in unaudited figures announced today by…

Bam Construct’s preconstruction services agreement (PCSA) for a new £50.4m ‘super school’ in Northumberland has been extended by the county council. The council cabinet agreed on Tuesday (12 December) to issue an early works instruction “as an extension of the current PCSA up to the value of £1.4m to prevent…

Royal Bam topped the monthly contractors’ league table in July for the first time since 2020, after it was chosen to build converter stations at each end of a £2bn undersea cable between Scotland and England. The firm was awarded £500m for its share of work on Eastern Green Link…

Bam UK & Ireland has said it will be cutting jobs as it undergoes a “realignment” of its construction business. In a statement, it said the overhaul will see Bam’s number of “operating regions” reduced from seven to five. Its North West and North East regions will be merged into…

The impact of rising costs mean that a major new development in Gateshead is set to be delivered more slowly and in three delivery packages. Revised plans have been approved for the 12,500-capacity Sage Arena and International Conference Centre in the North East town, which was previously approved in March…

Bam Construction has been appointed lead contractor for the first phase of a £210m cultural regeneration scheme in Huddersfield. The Our Cultural Heart scheme will see the refurbishment of the former Queensgate Market and Huddersfield Library buildings to house a food hall, museum and gallery that will sit alongside a…