Take a trip back through our biggest achievements
1990
We built the seven-storey Variety Club Building at the world famous Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, London. The 18,159m2 development incorporated St Christopher's Chapel, a 560 tonne building. In 1990 the 1875 building (by then in an advanced state of decay and having long outlived its usefulness in its original role) was demolished to make way for the new Variety Club Building. The chapel was preserved and moved 20m on its concrete foundation by hydraulic skates to its present location, where it continues to play an important (and now more ecumenical) role in the life of the Hospital.
The Meadows, Sandhurst, Surrey comprises two stores, one for a 10,388m2 Tesco and one slightly smaller for Marks & Spencer. Completed in 1990 on a 12ha site in the River Blackwater floodplain, the project required special measures to relocate rare grasses.
We built a £9m office for Crusader Insurance overlooking the Firth of Clyde. This was later sold to the Royal Bank of Scotland and now acts as the company's UK mortgage centre.
1991
We built the 27 box, three storey Melrose stand, ideally located with a view of the track, the parade ring and the weighing room. Regularly used by distinguished racehorse owners, the acclaimed building has excellent views of the track and easy access to the Parade Ring, as well as top-class hospitality facilities.
As part of the Criminal Justice Centre programme of new building work, we secured the £8m contract to build divisional headquarters for West Mercia Police Authority in Worcester. The design scheme required facing bricks to have a mellow red colour overall with the creased texture face of handmade facings, sympathetic to the vernacular Worcester Red Colour.
1992
Combining magistrates from two separate buildings, we built the new Nottingham Magistrates' Courts, on the site of the Nottingham Carrington Street Railway Station. It includes 24 court rooms and the Bridewell Police Station. As part of the project we rebuilt the Midlands Railway goods shed, dating from 1874, to form car parking.
This £20 million project involved extending the existing National Museum, creating 10,400m2 of new gallery space for the most prestigious museum in Wales.
1993
Situated on Manchester City’s original Maine Road site, we demolished the 1935 Platt Lane Stand, and built an all-seater stand. This was later renamed the Platt Lane Stand and included 48 executive boxes on two tiers.
1995
We completed the second phase of works on the £13m force headquarters. Facilities included admin offices, forensic laboratories including vehicle inspection, training school with accommodation, underground firing range, canteen and social club.
The 'House for an Art Lover' was originally designed in 1901 by Charles Rennie Macintosh but never built. Funding from Glasgow City Council meant we were finally able to build the house — in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow — in 1995, using materials, craftsmanship and dimensions as close as possible to the turn-of-the-century Mackintosh designs.
Rising to the challenge of Sir Terry Farrell’s innovative design for the new Edinburgh International Conference Centre's, our project team adopted prefabrication techniques to achieve time, cost and quality targets. Now the principal convention and conference centre in Scotland, it caters to around 200,000 delegates every year.
1996
After fire destroyed the north east wing of Windsor Castle in late 1992, we were appointed by the Royal Household to undertake the major restoration work, combining intricate traditional craftmanship with modern techniques and materials.
Our 27,000m2 extension to the Public Records Office at Kew in west London won the Concrete Society's 1996 Certificate of Excellence and the Secretary of State's Special Commendation for Environmental Excellence in the 1996 British Construction Industry Awards.
82 King Street is one of central Manchester’s most iconic and distinctive buildings. It comprises a 14 storey office tower constructed behind the Grade I Listed banking hall providing grade ‘A’ office accommodation with stunning views over the Manchester skyline.
We started construction works on the Wellcome Trust Biomedical Research Centre at Dundee University in March 1996. The project programme was adjusted to accommodate new phases of work, yet construction finished on the original target completion date just 19 months later.
1997
In 1995, we started our partnership with developer Argent on the Brindleyplace canal-side mixed use development in Birmingham, the biggest city centre redevelopment at the time. Initally we built three blocks, with four other buildings following over the next decade.
For Selfridges' masterplan refurbishment programme, we completed three contracts in the late 1990s, including construction of a new atrium and installation of ten escalators with 37,554 shoppers using them on their first day of operation, 1 November 1997. At 2,100m2, the third phase created Europe's largest beauty hall.
1998
A listed building, we carried out structural investigations, alterations and refurbishment work on Glasgow's Theatre Royal for client Scottish Opera.
Our £2.8 million refurbishment and conversion of a 100-year old Grade II listed former malt warehouse into new offices for the Greenalls Group in Warrington, Cheshire, won the refurbishment category in the 1998 Brick Awards. The judges said: "an impressive standard of craftmanship has been achieved".
At Thames Valley Park, Reading, we satisfied Oracle's brief for a striking yet cost effective headquarters office complex, carrying forward lessons learned in early phases to continuously improve the design and construction processes. We streamlined procurement processes for a series of five buildings, giving greater design and cost certainty, and cutting defects for developer Argent.
1999
The BAM-built £15m Lottery-funded National Centre for Popular Music in Sheffield was a distinctive building housing a multi-media exhibition devoted to enhancing understanding and knowledge of modern popular music. The contemporary architecture, coupled with our forward looking-approach to procurement routes and construction techniques, perfectly complement the centre's exhibits. It closed a year later and is now Sheffield Hallam University's student union.
We managed the refurbishment and fitting out of the Church of Scotland Assembly Hall on the Mound in Edinburgh to house 128 members of the Scottish Parliament, plus broadcasters, journalists and parliamentary support staff.
