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BAM: HQ Google in London hangt boven de markt

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  6. [verwijderd] 22 oktober 2013 21:36
    How Bam came top of Google's search
    12 July 2013 | By Adam Branson

    PrintEmail More Sharing ServicesShare Share on twitterShare on facebookShare on linkedinComment Save Bam Construct UK boss Graham Cash tells Building what winning one of the most prestigious construction jobs of the year means for the contractor

    This isn’t a normal builder’s presentation,” says Graham Cash, chief executive of contractor Bam Construct UK. Cash stops talking as an animated presentation starts up on a big screen mounted on the wall of one of Bam’s site offices on the King’s Cross Central development in central London. A disembodied commentator takes over the narration. “Imagine if you could build the best building in the world - where would you start?” it asks. “To build something truly groundbreaking you need to start with a very special place; a place with history and a bright future …”

    The presentation concludes about five minutes later and is, no doubt about it, pretty slick stuff. Cash, a modestly spoken man not given to hyperbole and without a hint of smugness, certainly looks pleased with it. And well he might. This is, after all, the presentation that helped Bam win the £300m contract to build internet giant Google’s AHMM-designed headquarters in King’s Cross, one of the most coveted contracts to be awarded in the last year. But it could also be the presentation that puts BAM firmly in the top tier of contractors able to bid and win the biggest and most prestigious jobs. So how did Bam, whose largest single contract before this was the £170m Laboratory of Molecular Biology for the Medical Research Council, manage to pull off such a prestigious win? And does the win really buy it a place at the top table?

    Bam is certainly not the only contractor to have a slick bid team, but its Google presentation is undoubtedly impressive. For a start, it is clear that its animators studied Google’s irreverent, quirky design style closely in order to come up with something that could have been put together by the company itself. Bam’s bid was then delivered to Google in a plain white box, unadorned with any of the contractor’s usual regalia. Nestled on top of the bid documents was a tablet computer and, when the box was opened, a magnetic strip in the lid automatically started up the device, which immediately began playing the animation. All of the documents in the box could be accessed via the tablet in a maximum of three clicks. Oh, and it goes without saying that the tablet wasn’t manufactured by Apple. As Cash says, not a normal builder’s presentation.

    The outside bet
    Cash acknowledges that many in the construction industry were surprised when Bam won the Google job. The £917.2m turnover company, owned by contracting giant Royal Dutch Bam, is no minnow, for sure, but it has not tended to compete for this size of contract, and was up against some of the biggest names in construction: Skanska, Carillion and Balfour Beatty. “I think that people might have viewed us as the outside horse,” he says. “But the way we handled it was about putting the right team together. It wasn’t about Bam - it was about what was right for Google. That team was briefed that we wanted everything to be different, not only in terms of the presentation but in terms of the interview and everything else we did on the project.”
    Cash knows what it means for the firm, and says it is part of a deliberate strategy to move the company on: “I’d like to be in the league with the best not the biggest, and I think that the win does do that for us.”

    Such was the surprise at Bam’s win, however, that some commentators wondered whether Bam’s relationship with Argent - the development manager and erstwhile developer at King’s Cross from whom Google acquired its development plot - hadn’t played a part in the decision. After all, Bam is already building on several sites on the King’s Cross scheme and has a relationship with Argent going back 20 years. Surely that connection helped?

    Cash isn’t having any of it, pointing out that both Kier and Carillion are also on a design-and-build framework on King’s Cross Central. “Kier didn’t make the shortlist and they’ve worked with Argent forever,” he says. “Ourselves and Carillion did make the shortlist, but at the end of the day I think it was down to us and Skanska. So at a different stage a different one of the framework contractors didn’t progress. I think with Google, we just won.”

    Bam’s relatively robust financial performance can be attributed to a range of factors, Cash believes. While many of the company’s competitors sought to diversify the services they offer, Bam “stayed firm and solid behind what we did”. It is also clear that Bam’s bidding strategy has held it in good stead through avoiding clients that are simply seeking the lowest bid regardless of quality.

    “We’ve been very careful about the company that we keep,” says Cash. “We’re sometimes economical, but on some recent projects we’ve won from third or fourth place on the price ranking because the team we sent in knew the project inside out and offered an excellent service.”

  7. [verwijderd] 22 oktober 2013 21:42
    BAM

    Keeping it local
    Cash also repeatedly returns to Bam’s structure when talking about the company’s project wins and its wider financial performance. In contrast to other contractors such as Balfour Beatty and Kier, which have been cutting and rationalising their regional offices, Bam had seven regional offices going into the recession and Cash is confident that it will have seven offices when the UK market eventually throws off its woes. The regional offices are supported by sector leads in head office - or in the case of schools in the Leeds office - who bring market-specific understanding to bear on bids.

    The combination of local and sector expertise, Cash says, is crucial. “I can’t tell you how important our regional offices have been to our bottom line,” he says, adding that a consistent presence puts Bam in a strong position when bidding against contractors that open and shut offices based on the vagaries of a local economy. “If you take the West Country, other contractors have migrated in and out and the local market knows that. We’re in for the long term. You’ve still got to deliver, but it helps us when everybody starts the musical chairs: in, out and the client doesn’t know what you’re about.”

    Bam’s recent win on the Graphene Institute, a £61m research building for the University of Manchester, is a case in point. “The Graphene building was a very tightly fought race - it was down to us and Laing O’Rourke,” he says. “And if you think about what I said about us bidding for things regionally and others bidding centrally, there’s a message in that for you about that project.”
    Add to the Google and Graphene wins £226m worth of academies work from the Education Funding Agency and Cash says Bam has already secured around £800m of work this year, which, only six months into the year and on an annual turnover of around £900m, is pretty good going. Having said that, last week’s news that developer Derwent had put its £150m redevelopment of the former Saatchi & Saatchi offices in London’s Fitzrovia on hold, can’t have come as good news for Bam. Already engaged in a pre-construction capacity, the firm had been tipped for the job. Cash says he is unable to comment.

    However, Cash is quietly confident about the future. He says his team is working on bids for the Priority School Building Programme and that “there are a lot of things layered in our business in terms of what we’re looking into at any one time”. However, he is circumspect, preferring to trust in his team to deliver rather than promising the Earth. “There are still hard times to come,” he says. “I think we’ll weather the storm better than most, and the last few years have shown that. But irrespective of what comes, if you’ve got people who are happy and focused, that’s a pretty good recipe.”

    Hier is het filmpje te zien dat Bam op een tablet zette en in een witte box aanbood bij google:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOcezizYh7k

    Filmpje is in september door BAM UK gepost op Youtube.
  13. [verwijderd] 5 november 2013 20:52


    Google's new UK headquarters aims to make going to work exciting

    The £1bn building at King's Cross will house 4,500 people along with climbing wall, rooftop pool and indoor football pitch


    Oliver Wainwright

    The Guardian, Friday 1 November 2013 19.45 GMT

    www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/n...
  14. [verwijderd] 5 november 2013 20:58


    More images emerge of Google’s upcoming London headquarters, set to open in 2016

    Response to “More images emerge of Google’s upcoming London headquarters, set to open in 2016”

    abdulwahab16 says:

    November 3, 2013 at 10:56 am

    apple campus 2 vs google london headquarter FIGHT !

    ?Reply




    Category:
    Google Corporate

    Written by:
    Mike Beasley
    November 2, 2013 / 2:48 pm
    9to5google.com/2013/11/02/more-images...
  15. pim f 5 maart 2014 10:44

    Bam Construct's £300m Google HQ plans to be redesigned

    6 November, 2013 |

    Google has told AHMM to redesign its plans for the internet giant’s £300m London headquarters at King’s Cross, due to be built by Bam Construct.

    The practice has been asked to come up with a “more ambitious” design for Google’s flagship office building – just two months after successfully steering the original proposals for a 93,000 sq m £650m development through planning, reports Construction News sister title Architects’ Journal.

    .....

    Subject to planning approval, Google’s staff are now scheduled to move in during 2017. The scheme was originally planned to open in late 2016.

    Rest/hele artikel: www.cnplus.co.uk/regional/london/back...

    Wel vertraging maar het lijkt me toch wel een BAM-project te blijven cq te zijn geworden
  16. pim f 5 maart 2014 11:54
    Skanska awaiting Google London office plans before deciding to bid

    19 February 2014

    Swedish construction company Skanska has stated that it will "wait and see" before making a decision on whether to bid for Google's revised King's Cross office space.

    Skanska bid for the £300 million project when the initial request for tender went out, however, it was awarded to Bam Construct. Google then decided it wanted the design of the London office to be more ambitious, requesting that architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) come up with a revised design in November of last year (2013).

    With the new design, the project is expected to be considerably larger and it's been reported that several main contractors could be involved.

    Mike Putnam, Skanska UK's president and chief executive, told Construction News: "We put in a big effort last time, will we repeat? I don't know, we will wait and see."

    The Stockholm-based firm has enjoyed a significant amount of success recently, having won a number of high-profile projects, including the Scalpel at 52 Lime Street.

    However, Mr Putnam added that despite the recent wins the company had a large capacity to work on more development projects.

    He said: "Although we have picked up some big wins over the past year, they tend to go in cycles and be quite large jobs.

    "They run over many years; just because you get two or three in one go, it doesn't mean they're starting or finish at the same time, so we still have more capacity."

    www.devono.com/news/skanska-awaiting-...
  17. pim f 5 maart 2014 12:01
    Dus deze maand moet de beslissing vallen!! (er is nog niks zeker)

    Google's £300m HQ contract down to three firms

    5 March 2013 | By Matthew Bell

    One of the four big-hitting firms vying to build Google’s £300m King’s Cross headquarters has been cut from the shortlist as the developers prepare to pick a winner this month.

    Balfour Beatty has been knocked out from the competition to build the 1 million sq ft office, according to sources close to negotiations.

    Bam Construct, Carillion and Skanska will now fight it out to construct the new UK hub for internet giant Google that is due to house 3,000-4,000 employees.

    H&V News understands that pricing was one of the determining factors in the decision to drop Balfour Beatty from the shortlist.

    The contenders now include just two of the three principal contractors for the King’s Cross site: Bam Construct and Carillion.

    Kier, the third of the developer’s principal contractors on the development, failed to make the original shortlist of four. Kier was subsequently awarded an £18m contract to redevelop the Midland Goods Shed at King’s Cross for supermarket chain Waitrose.

    Kier’s chief executive Paul Sheffield said in January that the firm chose to exclude itself from the Google contest due to its strict bidding caps.

    “We pulled ourselves out some time ago despite the close relationship we have with [development manager] Argent,” he said. “On the building side we put a self-imposed limit of £150m to £200m in project value.

    “Historically we have not been in the market of the multi-hundred million pound projects, it’s not something we have wanted to get into.”

    Google and Argent had considered whether to ask more than one firm to form a joint venture on the Google project but will opt for a single contractor to avoid potential wrangling over partnership details.

    Argent is part of the King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership that is developing the site.

    Google’s purchase of the 2.4-acre plot was confirmed in January after drawn-out talks throughout last year.

    The development is worth about £1 billion and will provide 1 million sq ft of office space (gross), while the construction cost is estimated at £300m.

    Subcontractors will be finalised in the next six to seven months for the HQ’s piling, foundation, groundworks, main building frame, mechanical and engineering, lifts, roofs and cladding.

    Construction is set to start this year pending approval from Camden Council and is due to be finished in 2016.

    Argent will be targeting a BREEAM Outstanding rating on the scheme, and a US equivalent LEED Platinum grading.

    Balfour Beatty has been contacted for comment.

    www.hvnplus.co.uk/news/googles-300m-h...
  19. [verwijderd] 22 maart 2014 13:26
    The decision by Google to go back to the drawing board on its £300m HQ at Argent’s King’s Cross development raised eyebrows but is expected to more than double its value under the new designs.

    The work is likely to be divided up between several contractors including Bam Construct, which originally won the deal to build the proposed scheme.

    www.cnplus.co.uk/home/2014-preview/pr...
  20. gerrit 69 22 maart 2014 15:00
    quote:

    Buffalo(Buff) schreef op 22 maart 2014 13:26:

    The decision by Google to go back to the drawing board on its £300m HQ at Argent’s King’s Cross development raised eyebrows but is expected to more than double its value under the new designs.

    The work is likely to be divided up between several contractors including Bam Construct, which originally won the deal to build the proposed scheme.

    www.cnplus.co.uk/home/2014-preview/pr...
    Als ik het dan goed begrijp, word de bouwopdracht verdeeld tussen verschillende bouw firma,s en zal BAM een gedeelte daarvan toegewezen krijgen, maar niet het hele project binnen slepen.
    Beter een half ei dan een lege dop, zou ik zo zeggen.

    Gerrit
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