BAM wins place on £8Bn ESFA

BAM Construction has been appointed to the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) Construction Framework.

The company will carry out high value works in both the North and South Frameworks, delivering school buildings over £12M. Six contractors have been selected for the North lot, at an anticipated £1.4Bn, while eight contractors are delivering the south lot at £2.6Bn.

BAM is involved in the current four year framework, which has seen the company deliver 43 schemes totaling some half a billion pounds. The new framework is due to commence at the end of November.

Andrew Brookes, BAM’s Framework Manager, said: “We have been a highly active participant under the current frameworks, and the ESFA has also praised BAM for having the best health and safety performance of all its contractors.

“We’re obviously delighted to have secured both lots that we bid for on the new framework, which is transforming so many young lives by delivering modern learning environments for our teachers and children.

“We welcome the increasing collaborative approach taken by the ESFA. It is true of all our clients that the secret to successful building lies in the partnerships we form with them and the quality of our understanding. The perfect balance is an economical and systematic approach that preserves the integrity of the clients’ needs and captures the key design elements to make the building exactly what they need.”

One of the key challenges within the framework is the management of asbestos procedures. BAM is working closely with the ESFA on asbestos management as many of school buildings under the project were built during times when the hazardous material was in use. The health and safety aspects of asbestos mean this subject is of equal concern to contractors as it is to schools.

 

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