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The Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Joe Carroll and the Tánaiste, Micheál Martin TD officially opened the €11.7 million critical infrastructure development at Water-Rock near Midleton that will eventually support 2,500 homes, 3 schools, a neighbourhood centre, a railway station and parks.

Three BAM projects collected awards at New Civil Engineer’s Bridges Awards in London last week.

Featuring state-of-the-art learning and sports facilities the new £50m Seaton Valley super school – delivered by BAM for Northumberland County Council – is on track to welcome over 1,200 students in September 2025.

BAM’s project for Network Rail to build a new accessible footbridge at St Erth station in West Cornwall has reached a milestone with the installation of two lift shafts. When complete this winter, the grade II-listed station will become fully accessible for the first time since it was built in 1852.

The keys have been officially handed over to Fife Council Leader, Cllr David Ross by BAM Construction Director for Scotland, Martin Cooper, marking the completion of this sustainable and transformational educational project.

Construction teams have completed significant stages of the British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Antarctic Infrastructure Modernisation Programme and joined the over-wintering staff for the first time as the 2023/24 summer season ended. The improvements, led by BAM and technical advisors Ramboll will transform future science and operations at Rothera, the UK’s largest polar research station in Antarctica.

Ahead of the opening of BAM UK & Ireland’s new office in Kilsyth, our Chief Operating Officer, John Wilkinson, sat down with The Scotsman’s Business Reporter to discuss how he is seeking to drive sustainability in Scotland and beyond.

A recent survey by BAM found that 47% of respondents don’t think that the construction sector is an accepting industry for the LGBTQ+
community to work in

Major construction and engineering firm, BAM has opened a new office in Kilsyth, creating a hub in Scotland for the company’s work decarbonising the UK’s energy network as well as delivering major public buildings and infrastructure projects.

The Newmarket Square Hotel project designed collaboratively by BAM, Reddy Architecture + Urbanism (Architects); Barrett O’Mahony Consulting Engineers (Engineering) won the BIM Excellence Award at the recent Irish Construction Excellence Awards.

BAM is to begin construction of the Narrow Water Bridge in County Louth that will connect communities north and south of the Irish border and is expected to boost local economic growth and tourism footfall.

BAM has started construction on the first office building, 3 Copper Square, at Brent Cross Town, the 180-acre, £8bn mixed use park town development in North London targeting to be a net zero carbon town by 2030.

BAM has today, together with 12 Tier One UK infrastructure and construction contractors and consultants, published a Blueprint for Growth, sharing 12 recommendations that the future government should implement to effectively boost the UK’s economic growth and productivity.

BAM is gearing up to tackle the historical pollution on the Lynemouth coast, with the final stages of preparation work now underway.

BAM has been appointed by Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to deliver the first phase of a major redevelopment programme at North Devon District Hospital. Known as Our Future Hospital, the project will upgrade the hospital’s facilities for staff and patients, so that the Trust can deliver more modern, integrated healthcare that meets the current and future needs of local people.

BAM is to construct a new 750 pupil secondary school featuring strong sustainability credentials and design supporting diverse learning needs at the Orchards Academy in Swanley, Kent. The £32.8 million project will deliver a full 100% new build school replacement on a live school site.

BAM’s COO talks to Construction News Ben Vogel about how BAM is supporting UK’s transition to homegrown low carbon energy, through its work with the energy sector.

BAM has announced it will deliver the £42 million renovation of Wrotham School in Kent, replacing and upgrading the existing school to provide an additional 265 permanent places from September 2027. A project where BAM is working closely with the Department for Education (DfE) to enhance biodiversity around the school and deliver 200 trees during the preconstruction phase.

BAM has started work on a new project to deliver a primary and secondary school in Lyde Green near Bristol. The new school buildings will be built to Passivhaus standards making them highly energy efficient and net zero carbon.

The winner of an animation competition sponsored by BAM UK & Ireland and the Community Benefit Programme with the aim to bring Ireland's New Children’s Hospital to life has been revealed.