The new six-storey New Engineering Building, designed by architect RMJM, is on the university鈥檚 Jessop East site. It will house lecture theatres, laboratories and other learning facilities.
Completion is expected in 2016.
As well as RMJM, the project team includes聽cost consultant Turner & Townsend, consulting engineer Arup and planning consultant Montagu Evans.
Balfour Beatty鈥檚 contract is part of an 拢81m investment plan by the university, which recently overtook Cambridge for engineering research income earned.
The new development is expected to create around 500 jobs during the construction phase alone and is predicted to bring 拢44.5m into the local economy during the construction phase and first year of operation.
Balfour Beatty is already working for the university .
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