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| BAM to deliver specialist education facilities in Cambridge BAM Construct UK has been announced as preferred bidder for a £9 million contract to build UTC Cambridge. The contractor will deliver a three-storey building to hold 670 students aged 14 to 19. The university technical college will specialise in biomedical and environmental sciences and technologies. It will include five super labs on the top floor. These will hold 90 students each, with three capable of joining together to emulate large-scale research conditions. Sustainability features will include a combined heat and power plant to provide low-carbon energy, photovoltaic cells and gravel beds to control rainwater run-off. Pupils at Long Road Sixth Form College and Cambridge Regional College, both of which are sponsoring the UTC, will have the opportunity to learn from the construction project. Local suppliers will be used where possible. The UTC will be built adjacent to the £175 million Laboratory of Molecular Biology, which was completed by BAM last year. Start on site is scheduled for September 2013, with the UTC due to open a year later at the start of the 2014/15 academic year. write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Construction News :: home page |