___________________________________________________________________________________________________ BAM Ritchies
BAM Ritchies , the ground engineering division of BAM Nuttall , occupies a unique position in the market ; it provides fully integrated services for both private and public sector customers , from small local projects to major national infrastructure . With 60 years of experience and expertise , BAM Ritchies has established an industryleading reputation as the go-to ground engineering team for complex works .
“ We started off in the quarries of Scotland , delivering drill and blast services and providing drilling rigs , compressors , and drilling parts ,” begins Matt Ewing , Business Development Manager at BAM Ritchies . “ It grew from there , taking opportunities wherever possible to enhance our service and grow our offering . In the 1978 Edmund Nuttall , as it was at the time , purchased the business and this enabled us to deliver a much larger projects like Gibraltar , which was a catalyst for expansion and further success .”
The business remained part of Edmund Nuttall through its rebranding process , and today , it forms BAM Nuttall ’ s geotechnical ground engineering department , as well as being a specialist contractor to the open market .
Matt elaborates : “ While we ’ re part of BAM Nuttall , we surprisingly do around 70 percent
we comprise five disciplines : geotechnical , drill and blast , instrumentation and monitoring , ground investigation , and our UKASaccredited laboratories . Within those five areas , we deliver nine specialisms . There ’ s many ground engineering and geotechnical companies out there , but I don ’ t believe any can match the wide range of services we can deliver as a single business .
“ We can get involved at the very beginning of a project , looking at feasibilities , designing , ground investigations , but we can also then deliver those plans to meet the needs of the broader project further down the line . Even
We ’ re unique in the marketplace because we comprise five disciplines : geotechnical , drill and blast , instrumentation and monitoring , ground investigation , and our UKAS-accredited laboratories
of our business with the open market . We ’ re the largest drill and blast contractor in the UK , for instance , working in many quarries throughout the UK to deliver aggregate . To give you an idea , we processed around 38 million tons of aggregate in 2022 .
“ We ’ re unique in the marketplace because further than that , we support them through many more stages , using our expertise to ensure they experience successful outcomes .
“ Through our laboratory services , we can validate the ground engineering elements , and our monitoring division can install instrumentation to understand and monitor
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