BAM Ireland

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Growing together

Postive, sustainable development for Ireland is a core principle of BAM Ireland

As a leading construction and civil engineering company, BAM Ireland is delivering for customers who are ultimately delivering for the rest of society. With a broad spread of customers, we are contributing to many important areas from public sector infrastructure, public buildings, schools, hospitals, and housing, to major commercial developments.

As part of the BAM UK and Ireland Division of Royal BAM Group of the Netherlands, we adopt a collaborative approach, working closely with our clients and industry partners to identify new solutions, that deliver environmental, economic and social value.

Alasdair Henderson, BAM Ireland Executive Director, comments, “To date, the construction industry has had significant environmental impacts, but many opportunities exist to reduce them.”

In 2021 BAM launched the strategy ‘Building a sustainable tomorrow’ focusing on markets and projects assuring a solid platform for sustainable growth. To help us deliver projects and services in a lean, green, and more efficient way our diverse highly skilled workforce utilises the latest digital technologies and modern construction methods. We are also supported by expert partners and a highly valued supply chain of specialist subcontractors.

BAM has been involved in the CDP global ranking since 2014 and has maintained a leadership position on the prestigious CDP climate A-list for three consecutive years. Also, our partnership with the Irish Green Building Council helps us create solutions to reduce our impact on climate change, prevent biodiversity loss and move our business to a circular economic model.

A key feature of our sustainability strategy is to reduce the carbon emissions associated with how buildings and infrastructure are designed built and managed over their lifecycle. BAM has set ambitious sustainability goals to get on track for sustainable, low-carbon, and future-proof growth. Overall, our construction and office waste has had reductions of 50 per cent for total volumes and 79 per cent for waste intensity volumes since 2010. Since 2009 total CO2 emissions have reduced by 65 per cent while CO2 intensity (in terms of turnover) has also reduced by 80 per cent.

With good progress in reducing our carbon emissions, we’re well underway in the transition to a lowcarbon economy that will stimulate the development of new technologies through our projects and operations. Besides our focus on decarbonisation, we are currently updating our targets and approach for circularity, climate adaptation, and biodiversity.

Henderson reiterates, “We are committed to reducing our impact on the earth’s climate and natural resources, as well as ensuring that our activities leave a lasting legacy for local communities. Around the country, our teams collaborate with public and private sector clients to deliver a sustainable built environment providing long-lasting social value for the communities we live and work in. You visit our project sites, and our people say they want to leave the community in a better position than when they arrived.”