BAM - The Materials Innovation Factory

We won!!! Well done to the BAM site team, University of Liverpool, Fairhurst Design Group and everybody involved in this amazing project!

Judges said the Materials Innovation Factory is exactly the sort of thing the Liverpool economy needs to continue its strong growth. The facility, which cost about £29m to build, represents a unique public-private partnership between Unilever and the University of Liverpool. Its facilities will enable the discovery of new materials that could have the potential to save energy and natural resources, improve health or transform manufacturing processes.

Our Urgent Care and Trauma (UCAT) Centre project at Aintree University Hospital was also shortlisted as a finalist.

At the Liverpool Insider Awards last night crossing our fingers with clients and consultants from our Aintree Hospital, University of Liverpool Materials Innovation Factory and Unilever Advanced Manufacturing Centre projects!

We handed over the Materials Innovation Factory to The University of Liverpool in December 2016 - check out full details of its amazing facilities here on the University's website: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/materials-innovation-factory/facilities/

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Members of the BAM team inside the building feeling proud of our work!

95% of all the waste produced during construction was diverted from landfill - we even managed to upcycle some wooden cable drums and pallets into furniture for the University of Liverpool campus with the help of students!

Throughout the project our site team have hosted 10 site tours and presentations for 120 architecture students from the University of Liverpool!

1st year Architecture students from Liverpool University visited our site. Our Project Manager gave a fantastic presentation talking about what is being built, the timescales, who is involved and health and safety on site.

https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2016/02/03/materials-innovation-factory-tops-out/

We carried out a traditional topping out ceremony on site last week to celebrate reaching the top of the building!

The University of Liverpool’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Janet Beer, Dr Cameron Jones, Port Sunlight Site Director at Unilever, the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, Caroline Cowburn, Regional Consultant at HEFCE and Ged Flanagan, our BAM Construction Director for the project all took part in the ceremony.

We won the Public Sector Project of the Year and BIM Initiative of the Year Awards for The National Graphene Institute last night at The Builder & Engineer Awards! Our other shortlisted entries included our UTC@MediaCityUK project, CSR Award and Nina Martyn for Construction Trainee of the Year - well done to the team!

We won the Public Sector Project of the Year and BIM Initiative of the Year Awards for The National Graphene Institute last night, at The Builder & Engineer Awards! Our other shortlisted entries included our UTC@MediaCityUK project, CSR Award and Nina Martyn for Construction Trainee of the Year - well done to the team!