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A group of experts at major contractors is drawing up guidance for the industry to use to head off cyber-attacks while working in joint ventures. Royal Bam group director of cyber-security, Ian Hill, told Construction News that a group called the Chief Information Security Officer Forum is meeting regularly to…

Bam Construct has promoted Jim Ward to director of its Scottish division. Ward will take over from Bruce Dickinson, who has moved into a broader role at Royal Bam Group. The new boss of the Scottish business has been with Bam Construct for 40 years and worked on flagship schemes…

The amount of furlough money claimed by firms in the CN100 more than doubled in January, a Construction News analysis has found. Of the 100 firms ranked by turnover, 53 claimed between £1.6m and £3.7m in total from the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme in January. This was up from between…

Balfour Beatty, Bam Construct, Graham and Kier are among the six contractors picked by Health Facilities Scotland for its new £650m framework. McLaughlin & Harvey and RMF – a joint venture between Robertson and FES – have also scooped places on the new NHS Frameworks Scotland 3, which will replace…

Royal Bam has set it sights on doing more work in the UK despite revealing mixed results for 2020. Its civil engineering operation, Bam Nuttall, made an adjusted pre-tax profit of €12.3m (£10.7m) according to new accounts for the Royal Bam group, published this morning. The results for the year…

Bam Construct has been picked to deliver a £30m expansion of the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro. The contractor will build a three-storey extension on the existing Trelawny Wing, which will include an MRI suite and a 24-bed haematology and oncology ward. Enabling works were completed last month and the…

Bam Construct has been picked to deliver a new £68m major trauma hospital in Salford, Greater Manchester. It is already on site carry out enabling works with construction on the six-storey building due to start next month. The contractor won the job through the Procure22 framework and has been working…

Bam Construct has been awarded the main contract to deliver an office project in Whitechapel, east London, 18 months after it signed a pre-contract services agreement with developer Frasers Property. The £78m job will see the contractor extend the existing building, called Central House, up from six to 12 storeys.…

Bam Nuttall saw its pre-tax profit fall to £15.3m in 2019, newly released accounts have revealed. The civil engineer’s profit was down more than 40 per cent from the £26.3m it reported in 2018. The decline came as its revenue climbed from £749.9m to £770.4m. The company did not give…

Bam Construct saw its profit more than halve in 2019 due to problems on a project for the University of Sheffield. In 2020, the company was forced to demolish part of a concrete frame on the Faculty of Social Sciences building after problems with piling were identified. Bam Construct has…