Koninklijke BAM Groep is a major European construction-services business with headquarters in Bunnik

Bunnik

Bunnik is a municipality and a village in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. The recorded history of the village dates back nearly 2000 years, when the Romans constructed a fort at Fectio with a harbour facing the river Rhine, which marked the border of the Roman Empire...

, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

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History

The company was founded by Adam Van der Wal as a joiner's shop in 1869. It was renamed Bataafsche Aanneming Mij van Bouw-en ('BAM') in 1927 and expanded through acquisition buying Interbuild in 1998, NBM-Amstelland in 2000 and Hollandsche Beton Groep (later HBG) in 2002.

Operations

The company's major operations include:

• BAM Utiliteitsbouw - Non-residential construction
• BAM Woningbouw - Residential construction
• BAM Civiel - Civil engineering
• BAM Infratechniek - Utilities
• BAM Wege - Environmental engineering
• BAM Construct UK - Building in the UK
• BAM Nuttall - Civil engineering in the UK

Major projects

Projects completed by the company include the Amsterdam Arena

Amsterdam ArenA

Amsterdam Arena is a stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is the largest stadium in the nation and it was built from 1993 to 1996 at a cost of €140 million, and was officially opened on 14 August 1996. It has been used for association football, American football, concerts, and other events...

 soccer stadium for AFC Ajax in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

 completed in 1996, the Antwerp Law Courts completed in 2005 and the Euroborg

Euroborg

Euroborg is the stadium of football club FC Groningen, with a capacity of 22,329 seats. Located to the south-east of Groningen, the Euroborg site houses a casino and a movie theatre, a school, a supermarket and a fitness centre. A temporary railway station at the Euroborg has opened in late 2007....

 soccer stadium for FC Groningen in Groningen completed in 2006. The company is part of the Infraspeed consortium which recently officially handed over the HSL-Zuid

HSL-Zuid

HSL-Zuid , is a 125 km-long high-speed railway line in the Netherlands to the Belgian border, with a branch to Breda. Together with the Belgian HSL 4 it forms the Schiphol–Antwerp high-speed railway...

 high-speed railway line between Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...

and the Belgian border to the Dutch State.

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