Royal Bam

A dispute between Bam Nuttall and Cambridgeshire County Council over alleged defects on a guided busway has been settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. The £152m busway, which links Cambridge to the Cambridgeshire market town of St Ives, was completed in 2011. However, the council was seeking compensation…

Big names such as Kier, Wates and Morgan Sindall have secured spots on an £800m public sector building framework. Bam Construction, Bowmer & Kirkland, Brims Construction, Caddick Construction, Equans, Sir Robert McAlpine, Robertson and Tilbury Douglas are also among the 24 contractors – out of 34 proposed firms – to…

A major Environment Agency framework featuring contractors including Bam Nuttall and Kier has been extended for four years. Launched in 2019, the collaborative-delivery framework is part of the body’s £5.2bn capital investment programme. The arrangement originally ran through to 2023 and included the option for it to continue for an…

Royal Bam Group has reported a slight increase in revenue from its UK and Ireland division in 2022, despite supply chain challenges affecting its civils arm. Overall, Bam UK and Ireland saw a 5 per cent increase in revenue in 2022 to €3.1bn (£2.8bn). Despite this, adjusted earnings before interest,…

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…