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Building the present, creating the future
BAM completes N25 New Ross Bypass PPP
In January, An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, TD and Rose Katherine Kennedy Townsend officially opened the N25 New Ross Bypass PPP Scheme. Delivered by the BAM on behalf of
Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), and Wexford and Kilkenny County Councils, this 15 km of road network will improve links to the South East for business and greatly reduce
travel times on the strategic Cork to Rosslare corridor.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge
The project was funded and The bridge is the longest bridge designers Arup and CFC and the
constructed by the BAM / ACS in Ireland and the longest Employers team lead by Mary
consortium, which will now extradosed bridge of its type (a Bowe and Joe Shinkwin of Mott
maintain it for the next 25 years complex cable-stayed structure) in MacDonald.
with a 20-strong team of workers. the world.
It has been delivered as a Public “This is a crucial piece of
Private Partnership (PPP) Contract Speaking at the opening of infrastructure for the South
between Transport Infrastructure the new bypass, BAM CEO East Region and it will have an
Ireland and the PPP company, Theo Cullinane said the firm immediate, tangible impact on
comprising BAM PPP, PGGM was proud to have funded and the local community, who will
Infrastructure Coöperatie U.A. delivered another vital piece of enjoy reduced travel times and
and Iridium Concesiones de infrastructure for the State. increased accessibility. The N25 is a
Infraestructuras S.A. “It is fantastic to see the N25 New strategic national route that carries
Ross Bypass opened today. We are both tourist and commercial traffic
The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy delighted to say that this project between Cork and Rosslare and it
Bridge stretches 887 metres was delivered successfully and my will improve connectivity across
across the River Barrow and joins thanks for this goes to the team Munster and Leinster. Last year
Kilkenny with Wexford. The name involved: BAM led by Tadhg Lucey, saw the opening of the M11 Gorey
of the bridge celebrates the Adrian Cunningham and Declan to Enniscorthy motorway, another
Kennedy family’s rich heritage in Roche, BAM PPP/ Iridium led by PPP scheme co-delivered by BAM
Theo Cullinane - CEO BAM Ireland, Rose Kennedy Townsend - great-
New Ross, as their ancestral home Ricardo Urién Laso; Dragados led that has delivered significant granddaughter of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and Tadhg Lucey, COO BAM Civil
is located in nearby Dunganstown. by Horge Cordero del Val, our benefits to the South East Region. at the official opening (Neil Warner Photography)
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The BAM €500,000 Community Benefit Fund
BAM Ireland launched the BAM €500,000 Community Benefit Fund for the New Children’s Hospital was
launched in January.
The fund was established to these grants will have on lives our own operations. We believe
provide education bursaries and throughout the local communities. this fund will be of great value to
apprenticeship support, aid various Speaking at the launch at the the local community, leaving with
community projects and develop F2 Centre in Rialto, BAM Ireland it a legacy that will support the
cultural, arts and sports initiatives Director Denis McCarthy said: “I operation of our new children’s
in the areas close to the site of the am delighted to launch the BAM hospital for many years to come.”
New Children’s Hospital during the Community Benefit Fund for the
years 2020, 2021 & 2022. new children’s hospital. Since Application forms for grants and
we started the enabling works student bursaries through BAM’s
BAM is committed to promoting contract in 2016, BAM has worked Community Benefit Fund
sustainability across all aspects of hard to become a part of the local are available to download:
its business. Its key sustainability communities of Dublin 8 and https://newchildrenshospital.
target is to have a Net Positive Dublin 12 and has witnessed the ie/community-benefit/bam-
Impact on climate change, mutual benefits that our continued community-benefit-fund-for-
resources and people. This new cooperation and dialogue the-new-childrens-hospital/.
fund will help BAM to reach this has brought to both the local Applications close March 31st,
goal through the positive impact community, local business and 2020.
Gordon Jeyes, Chair, Community Benefit Oversight Group; Eilísh Hardiman Denis McCarthy, Director BAM Ireland and) & Eilísh Denis McCarthy, Director, BAM Ireland with Members of the Forget-Me-Nots Choir;
CEO CHI (Children’s Health Ireland); Denis McCarthy, Director, BAM Ireland & Hardiman CEO CHI (Children’s Health Ireland) James McConkey, Frances Elliott, Des Gallagher, Joan Nolan and Joe Patterson and
Joe Donoghue, Community Development Manager at Fatima Groups United chatting with members of the ‘Forget-Me-Nots’ Choir. students from St. James’s Primary School Choir; Jeanine Garcia, Katie Finnegan, Eabha
O’Keeffe, Jake Branagan and Billy O’Neill and Gordan Jeyes at the launch with the New
Children’s Hospital in the background. (Photography by Conor McCabe.)
Official opening of €18.7m N56 Coolboy
to Kilmacrennan Scheme
Minister for Education and Skills, Joe McHugh TD and Cathaoirleach of Donegal County Council, Cllr. Nicholas
Crossan officially opened the €18.7m, N56 Coolboy to Kilmacrennan Scheme last October.
The 3.1km scheme is a key and it is hoped that this new scheme involved the widening
transport corridor to the north shared track will be extended to and realignment to a 7-meter
west of Donegal including Letterkenny. carriageway with hard strips and
Glenveagh National Park, Donegal verges.
Airport and the Gaeltacht. The delivery of this scheme
is a continuation of the N56 In collaboration with this project,
BAM commenced works in Mountaintop to Illistrin project Irish Water constructed a new
January 2018 and completed the completed in 2009. The original trunk watermain and distributor
project in 18 months. Alongside road had a narrow carriage way, water mains serving Letterkenny
the new road, a 2-meter shared no significant verge and a number and its environs adjacent to and
footway/cycle track has been of poorly aligned junctions, along the N56.
created on both sides of the road accesses and entrances. The new
KPMG Property Industry
Awards
BAM FM Ireland won the Facilities Management Project of the year at
the KPMG Property Industry Excellence Awards 2019 in November.
The KPMG Irish Independent endorsement of the entire Irish
Property Excellence Awards property sector.
highlight, reward and celebrate
excellence in the Irish Property The award was presented to BAM
Industry. Core to this success is the FM for facilities management of
integrity of the judging process Schools Bundle 4 PPP Project,
and its commercial structure, which includes schools in
which has ensured that the awards Skibbereen, Dundalk, Tulla and
receive both the support and Carrick-on-Suir. (L-R; Johanna Gill, President of SCSI, Grainne de Mordha Operations Manager BAM FM Ireland & Tom Vaughan Facilities Manager of
Skibbereen School)
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CMG Irish Building and Design Awards 2019
The Irish Building & Design Awards are the industry’s most prestigious
recognition of excellence in the building and design sectors.
Acknowledging the best in all the Year 2019
areas of construction and design, • Cork Courthouse - Anglesea
these awards go to the finest and Street, Courts Bundle PPP Project
most innovative projects, firms & - Public Building Project of the
practices over the last 12 months. Year 2019
• The Tannery, Mill Street -
BAM Received four accolades at Student Accommodation of the
the November event: Year
• Health and Safety award of the
• Visual Control Tower, Dublin Year
Airport - Engineering Project of
Facilities Management CSR AWARDS 2019
Awards Congratulations to Boots Ireland for their Outstanding Achievement in Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR) Award at Chambers Ireland CSR Awards 2019 in September.
Earlier this year BAM FM received an accolade at the Facilities
Management Awards 2020 for ‘Excellence in Health and Safety’. By demonstrating commitment
to CSR in its company values and
Grainne deMordha & Triona consistently meeting key judging
Sheedy accepted the award on criteria across all aspects of CSR,
behalf of BAM FM. Boots Ireland received this Award.
Launched in 2014, the Facilities This sixteenth annual Awards
Management Awards is the ceremony, sponsored by BAM
long-standing platform for Ireland, was hosted in partnership
recognising and rewarding with the Department of Rural and
companies and their teams who Community Development and
strive for excellence within the FM Business in the Community Ireland.
sector in Ireland Commenting on the awards,
BAM Ireland Chief Executive Theo
Cullinane said,
“CSR and sustainability are now
absolutely central to corporate life Tadhg Lucey, Chief Operating Officer, BAM Ireland, speaking at the Awards
in Ireland as stakeholders, including
shareholders and customers, look
to businesses to provide leadership
and inspiration to improve the
world we live in. BAM is proud to
be main sponsor of these awards
over the last eight years as the
corporate social responsibility
agenda has become so important
for Irish businesses.
CSR is at the heart of everything
we do at BAM and it gives us
great pleasure to see the breadth
of inspiring projects all over the
country that are showcased
through the awards”
Pictured – Sponsor, Garreth Ritchie (Group Head of Sales at Greyhound Recycling) Boots Ireland take home the Outstanding Achievement in Corporate Social
presents our BAM FM colleagues Triona Sheedy - SHEQ Manager and Grainne de Responsibility Award 2019
Mordha Operations Manager with the coveted trophy
NISO Awards
In October BAM Ireland was honoured with Higher
Distinction and Consistent Higher Achiever awards at the 2019
National Irish Safety Organisation (NISO) Awards. The Distinction is in
recognition of our continued excellence in delivering workplace safety
and arising from the implementation of our new behavioural safety
initiative, Your Safety Is My Safety.
The objective of ‘Your Safety is Speaking about the impact of
My Safety’ (or YSiMS as it has YSiMS, BAM Ireland’s CEO Theo
been abbreviated), is to improve Cullinane said: “For a company
continuously safety performance of our size, with over 3,300 staff
and to meet strategic targets. The employed directly and indirectly
Consistent Higher Achiever Award, in offices and on sites around the
also bestowed on BAM, is given country, the safety of people is
to companies that have achieved paramount, because our business
a Distinction or higher for five or is our people.
more consecutive years. Harry Galvin, President, National Irish Safety Organisation; Triona Sheedy, SHEQ Manager, BAM FM; Sharon McGuinness, Chief
Executive, Health & Safety Authority; John Thompson, Chairperson, Northern Ireland Safety Group.
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Navisworks
Successful training day for Navisworks
In December, Michael Murphy, This software allows users to
a member of our digital open and combine 3D models,
construction team & also our navigate around them in real-
Navisworks expert tutored 30 BAM time and review the model
colleagues on this project review using a set of tools including
software. The course aim was comments, redlining, viewpoint,
to train employees who require and measurements. A selection
a basic understanding of how of plug-ins enhances the package
to use Navisworks to review 3D adding interference detection, 4D
models to ensure clash free and time simulation, photo-realistic
constructible design. rendering and PDF-like publishing.
The close of the 150 In October the Boland’s Quay team
Celebrations at BAM with volunteered with Simon community
150,000 Trees Our team at Boland’s Quay
2019 marked the jubilee 150th year of Royal BAM Group. took part in the ‘Room
to Improve’ project at
BAM is delighted to have reached The 50,000 remaining have been Riversdale House.
our target by planting its 150,000th allocated to Europe and spread
tree, after making the pledge at between our home markets in the The team assembled furniture and
the start of our 150th anniversary Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, redecorated two rooms of the
year. Trees have been planted Switzerland, Ireland, Denmark and house for its residents.
across the world in areas in need the UK.
of reforestation. We were delighted Our colleagues really enjoyed the
to make a genuine difference and In Ireland staff and their families project. It was a privilege to meet
give something back. were joined by ‘Trees on the Land’ everyone at Riversdale House and
as they volunteered to help plant be part of the wonderful work they
Throughout the year, BAM planted 10,000 trees at four locations across accomplish.
trees in areas in need such as the island of Ireland.
50,000 trees each in Bolivia and
Uganda.
Iron Games 2019
Congratulations to the very
strong BAM Ireland Team, who
were finalists at the Iron Games
2019 Gaelic Football event at
Croke Park on Fri 20th Sept.
Also, huge congratulations to BAM
Ireland Team Theo Cullinane (CEO,
BAM Ireland), Paddy Hayes, John
McSweeney and Paul Collins who
won the Iron Games 2019 Golf Cup
on Friday September 27th.
The Iron Games are held to support
the Irish Haemochromatosis
Association.
www.haemochromatosis-ir.com
KEY PERSONNEL OFFICES
MANAGEMENT BAM CIVIL BAM PROPERTY - Construction Directors
Theo Cullinane - CEO Regional MD Ger Moloney HEAD OFFICE
Tadhg Lucey - COO (Civil /International / Safety) John Lucy Sean O’Brien Kill, Co Kildare, W91 KH3E
Ger Harrington - COO (Building / Property / FM) T: +353 45 886 400
Lorna Cross - CFO BAM Civil - Director BAM PPP e: info@bamcontractors.ie
Brian Cunningham Business Development Director
BAM BUILDING: Bill Harkins SOUTHERN REGIONAL OFFICE
Regional MD’s BAM Civil - Construction Directors Euro Business Park,
Luke Gibbons Adrian Cunningham Little Island, Co Cork, T45 R902
Denis McCarthy Darren Devane BUSINESS UNITS T: +353 21 451 7300
Ger Moloney William Diver David Barron - M&E East & Dublin e: info@bamcork.ie
Alan Finn Lorraine Brady - Pre- Construction Director
Director Pat McAndrew Seamus Brady - Chief Estimator, Building WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE
Perry Haughton Mark Phelan Paul Brennan - Head of Digital Construction Unit 5, Liosban Business Park,
Adrienne Bryan - HR & Payroll Manger Tuam Road, Galway, H91 DR5W
BAM Building - Construction Directors BAM Civil - Regional Commercial Directors Pat Burke - Projects Controls Director T: +353 91 778 583
Pat Connolly Philip Desmond Tommy Flaherty - Plant Manager e: info@bamgalway.ie
Howard McDonagh Peter Walsh Andrew Kehoe - Procurement Manger
Aidan O’Connell Tadhg Lucey - Sustainability Director
Derek O’Connor BAM FM - Directors Ger Maloney - M&E South
Kevin O’Driscoll Ger Harrington Elaine Maloney - Environmental & Sustainability Coordinator
Seamus Sheahan Denis McCarthy Lena McCarthy - ICT Manager
Padraig Walsh Kathy O’Leary - SHE & Sustainability Manager
BAM FM / HOUSING Tiernan O’Malley - M&E West
BAM Building - Regional Commercial Directors
Construction Director Brian Quinlan - Quality Manager
Seamus Kealy
Micheál Keohane Declan Roche - Business Development/ Communications Director
Pat Murphy
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