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BAM on the case at Scotland Yard

20 Jan 14 BAM has been selected as main contractor for the Metropolitan Police’s new headquarters in central London.

The Met is leaving New Scotland Yard for smaller premises at the Curtis Green Building Victoria Embankment in 2015. It will be called simply Scotland Yard.

Architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris won a competition in October to produce designs for the redevelopment. BAM has now been confirmed as construction contractor.

The move is part of a rationalisation of the police estate by the Mayor's Office of Policing and Crime (MOPAC), which owns approximately 500 buildings across the capital.

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Metropolitan Police director of property services Jane Bond said: "We are pleased to confirm that BAM have been appointed  to provide pre-construction services for the  refurbishment works at the new Metropolitan Police headquarters, Scotland Yard.  These works, designed by renowned architects AHMM, form part of our continued effort to deliver a more modern and efficient police estate for London and we look forward to working with BAM to bring this important and exciting project forward."

The Curtis Green Building, named after architect William Curtis Green, sits between the Norman Shaw Building and the Ministry of Defence.  It faces onto the Victoria Embankment with views across the River Thames to London County Hall, Westminster Bridge and the London Eye. Since 1967 the Met’s HQ has been at New Scotland Yard, just off Victoria Street.But it has moved several times in its history – from Whitehall Place to Great Scotland Yard in 1875, to the Norman Shaw building in 1890 (which is now an office building for MPs).  This new move therefore marks a return to a previous location.

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