Take a trip back through our biggest achievements
2010
One Angel Square has achieved one of the highest ever BREEAM scores of 95.16%. Working closely with The Co-operative Group, we achieved their vision for a sustainable workplace. This 16-storey building, which was opened by HRH Elizabeth II, contains 325,000 sq ft of open plan office space and a large central atrium. Two basement floors include underground car parking, an auditorium and fitness facilities.
BAM built the iconic Zaha Hadid designed new Riverside Museum in Glasgow, which includes exhibition spaces, a café and retail and education spaces split over two floors and a column-free, 50m-wide circulation space, all housed beneath a self-supporting and unique geometric shape.
We built a brand new cricket pavillion that is a joint use facility at Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground for Leeds Metropolitan University and Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC) to support professional sports events and tertiary education. As well as the new building, we constructed a new media centre and upgraded player changing faciltiies and treatment rooms, all during the course of a professional cricket season.
Hemmed in by seven different Oxford University buildings, we managed to build a six storey plus basement extension of the world-renown Ashmolean Museum, including four storeys for the permanent galleries, one for temporary exhibitions, a roof-top cafeteria and an education facility. The project included some restoration of the original 1845 building, which remained open throughout the redevelopment.
Home of Dolly the first cloned sheep in the world, the new 8,000m2 Roslin Institute is shaped like a chromosome to reflect the institute’s work with animals. We built in fully glazed open-plan offices, laboratory areas and highly regulated experiment chambers to avoid contamination. The Roslin Institute allows scientists to lead international research into a range of animal related studies that have evolved from the development of GM chickens which don’t transmit bird flu to strategies for combating a viral disease in Atlantic salmon.
The new purpose-built seven-storey headquarters, built by BAM in Coventry’s city centre, is a landmark building for Severn Trent, both in terms of appearance and environmental credentials; despite being 38 metres tall and able to comfortably accommodate 1,700 staff, it has one of the smallest carbon footprints in Britain.
BAM transformed the Angel Building from a humdrum 1980s office block into an attractive, BREEAM Excellent, sustainable and thoroughly contemporary building. We increased the floor area by 60%, rewrapped the original concrete frame with an extremely energy-efficient glazed skin which has also extended the building’s envelope and greatly improved its fit with its surroundings.
