{"id":74086,"date":"2020-03-30T12:32:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T11:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=74086"},"modified":"2020-03-30T12:32:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T11:32:51","slug":"emergency-covid-19-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/emergency-covid-19-facilities\/74086\/","title":{"rendered":"BAM to build special emergency COVID-19 facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bam.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BAM<\/a> is restarting work at a number of sites across the UK, including projects critical to the national pandemic, as well as new projects to build emergency COVID-19 facilities<\/h2>\n<p>The industry and government have jointly defined\u00a0new ways for sites to operate, including avoiding congested public transport and maintaining as far as possible the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/covid-19-site-procedures\/73750\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two-metre social distancing guidance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BAM teams around the country have been reviewing and redesigning work at all sites. This has allowed discussions to be had with clients, subcontractors and those employees who are willing and able to work at sites, about re-opening. The numbers of workers on sites have been significantly reduced.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/non-essential-construction-work\/74015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">closed sites<\/a> are predominantly in Scotland, London and the Midlands.<\/p>\n<p>BAM will keep the working arrangements under constant review.<\/p>\n<p>BAM has also been working closely with the NHS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-of-health-and-social-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department for Health<\/a> and the UK government on numerous critical healthcare schemes around the country, building new COVID-19 facilities or adapting current facilities to treat Coronavirus patients.<\/p>\n<h3>Essential management<\/h3>\n<p>BAM&#8217;s facilities management (FM) teams will continue to provide buildings management, cleaning and catering services to the emergency services, local authorities and those schools remaining open for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/highways-key-workers\/73859\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">key workers<\/a>\u2019 and vulnerable children.<\/p>\n<p>In order to maintain services, and where possible BAM FM employees that serve private sector clients are re-deploying to fill roles serving the public sector that is unfilled due to illness or self-isolation.<\/p>\n<h3>Extraordinary and concerning times<\/h3>\n<p>BAM Construct UK&#8217;s chief executive, James Wimpenny said: \u201cBuildings are central to people\u2019s lives, and at this time they are also central to saving people\u2019s lives. 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We are all in this together, working hard to save lives and livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank everyone at BAM for everything they are doing to keep themselves and their families safe, and for responding so well to rapidly changing circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAM is restarting work at a number of sites across the UK, including projects critical to the national pandemic, as well as new projects to build emergency COVID-19 facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[676,54592,997,742,276,947,996],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-development","10":"tag-facilities-management","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-nhs"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BAM to build special emergency COVID-19 facilities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"BAM is restarting work at a number of sites including projects critical to the national pandemic, as well as new projects to build COVID-19 facilities\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/emergency-covid-19-facilities\/74086\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BAM to build special emergency COVID-19 facilities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BAM is restarting work at a number of sites including projects critical to the national pandemic, as well as new projects to build COVID-19 facilities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/emergency-covid-19-facilities\/74086\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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