Innovation
Our vision is to be recognised as one of Europe’s leading sustainable and innovative construction businesses. In these challenging times, fostering a culture of innovation is crucial to help our clients and our own business adapt to a new post COVID-19 normal.
Across BAM we are committed to developing new solutions which will enable us all to achieve better outcomes such as improved performance, increased end user wellbeing, greater resilience and less environmental impact.
Delivering ground-breaking and iconic projects
Our team has brought some of UK’s most iconic buildings to life, using innovative construction techniques and approaches to deliver highly complex schemes such as the V&A in Dundee and Coal Drops Yard in London. In 2018, BAM constructed the world’s first 3D concrete bridge in the Netherlands and this year we will hand over Europe’s first passiv hospital, which is located in Frankfurt.
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Sharing ideas across our business
Initiatives such as the Ministry of Cool, our innovation management platform, provide a space where people from around BAM can share their innovative ideas for creating new solutions and products. Some of these such as the world’s first electric road roller are already being deployed on roads in the Netherlands. Others are in the trial phase, such as the UK’s sensor and web platform, which monitors office environments and wellbeing to help companies improve workplaces and staff productivity and retention.
BAM has built and commissioned the world’s first fully electric 10 to
12-tonne road roller. This unique and sustainable piece of equipment
was created by BAM’s plant and equipment department, on the basis of an
older model which was due for
an overhaul.
Read more here.
BAM’s sustainable process to produce low-energy asphalt concrete
(LEAB, after its Dutch name) has received the official seal of approval
of CROW, the Dutch technology platform for transport, infrastructure and
public space.
Read more here.
BAM is rethinking the concept of mobility. A good example can be
found in the work of goinGDutch, our partnership with Schiphol Airport,
Microsoft and OrangeNXT. With interactive cycling routes and a specially
developed bike assistant we aim to provide
commuters with the ultimate cycling experience in crowded urban
areas.
Read more here.
In a smart city, we live and work in a healthy and sustainable living
environment with constant connectivity. BAM is shaping such smart
cities – by working on innovative, sustainable and integrated solutions
that really do add value. And we are doing so in our own unique way,
employing strategies that are just that little bit different, and just
that little bit smarter.
Read more about Smart Cities here
Building partnerships to develop new tools and approaches
BAM
partners with companies, institutions and universities across Europe to
develop new tools and approaches, which will enable us to address some
of the challenges we face as an industry. We are part of the
Construction Innovation Hub’s DfMA platform project, which will develop a
kit of parts for use in the public sector and we regularly work with
organisations such as UKGBC and CIBSE to create new guidelines for areas
such as Government Soft Landings, net zero buildings and the Circular
Economy.
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