Balfour Beatty has won an £18m contract to build accommodation for Homerton College in Cambridge.

The scheme, to design and build a mixture of educational and commercial accommodation, includes the construction of a 450-place mixed education and student accommodation building for a new boarding sixth form college, complete with 132 residences, classrooms, a main hall, laboratories and kitchen and servery.

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As part of the project, Balfour Beatty will also construct a new three-storey 1,500m2 commercial building and refurbish a 500m2 two-storey office accommodation building on the site, which was previously used as the Rattee and Kett Master Stonemason's yard. These two buildings and surrounding landscaping works will be known collectively as the Homerton Business Centre.

Enabling works were carried out by Balfour Beatty between March and August this year.

The acquired site off Harrison Drive is parallel to the main London to Cambridge railway line, requiring close engagement with Network Rail to gain the necessary permissions to clear the site and plan for construction activities without affecting rail travellers.

(CD/JP)