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| YMCA in Bradford takes Yorkshire’s BAM to £50 million in Bradford The firm behind the £5.2 million Culture Fusion project in Bradford is preparing to hand over the new building to the YMCA for use by the area's young people. The project – located on Thornton Road – takes turnover by design and build contractor BAM Construction to over £50 million from its last seven projects built in Bradford. These include three schools, a university facility, Bradford Academy, a college and two community buildings. The 3,160 square-metre Culture Fusion building took BAM just one year to build, and currently it is estimated will generate a low carbon footprint of less than nine tonnes of CO2 per million pounds in value, well below the company's already demanding target of 14 tonnes. Work has been undertaken to refurbish and extend a former warehouse building including new mechanical and electrical installations, and replacing existing floors and the roof. The project deliberately set a plan to involve young people and the BAM team has so far contributed over 200 man hours to projects involving over 250 young people around Bradford. This has included such things as children's art and photography projects, site visits, history, involvement in the design and work on site as apprentices. Nearly 90% of orders of £35,000.- or above for the project were placed with sub-contractors within the Yorkshire area, the largest, worth over one million pounds for mechanical and electrical works, was placed with a Bradford firm, Southern and Redfern Building Services. BAM completes Culture Fusion towards the end of October. Among its other projects in Yorkshire it is at work on the Leeds Arena. write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Construction News :: home page |