Education

Sir William Bragg Building, University of Leeds

Client : University of Leeds
Value : £5m
Location : Leeds
Time : 3 Years

Scope of work

  • Enabling and site set up
  • HV diversion
  • Basement construction including liner walls and full waterproofing
  • Under slab and site wide drainage
  • Upper floor structural toppings
  • Site wide services and incoming to new building
  • Hard landscaping works including street furniture
  • Decommission and make good following completion
  • Laboratory standard clean room with anti-vibration plinths for equipment to sit on
  • Deep basement with substantial support beams
  • Paving and landscaping the front entrance and concrete benches
  • Full Sika Waterproof design installed
  • 2 Geo-cellular attenuation tanks installed 112m3 and 15m3
  • 2 foul water pumping stations
  • Constructing a capping beam averaging 330kg/m3 of reinforcement to the building
  • Full diversion of existing HV, Data and Steam mains around the proposed building for the university prior to the main works going ahead
  • Structural improvement works to the basement and roof of the existing Old Mining Building to allow additional levels to be installed above
  • 450t of reinforcement and 3,400m3 concrete poured.

Your commitment to health and safety, quality and willingness to work with the BAM team has been excellent

Your commitment to health and safety, quality and willingness to work with the BAM team has been excellent on what has been a large and complicated project with many different interfaces. The client is delighted with the end product on what is their flagship project, and this is a credit to all involved. We look forward to working with you all again on future projects.

Jonathan Conway

Jonathan Conway

Project Manager, BAM Construction