University awards construction contract
THE University of Sheffield is set to start construction on a £21m building designed to support its work at the Advanced Manufacturing Park.
Graham Construction has secured the contract to build a new home for the University’s Engineering Graduate School.
Work on the 5,300 square metre building is due to start next month and us due to be completed by September 2013.
Keith Lilley, the University’s director of estates, said: “The Faculty of Engineering’s ongoing successful growth means that we urgently need both to improve our existing teaching and research facilities and to develop new ones.
“We’re delighted to be working with Graham Construction on this important development which, when completed, will be the first step in meeting the challenge of expanding and upgrading our engineering estate to meet the needs of 21st century engineering teaching and research.”
The University said the Engineering Graduate School would be a link between the research and teaching at the Faculty of Engineering’s city centre campus and its facilities at the Advanced Manufacturing Park.
