Bouygues UK has been appointed to deliver a new graduate facility for the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

The £27 million contract will develop a new building at the QMUL's main teaching campus in Tower Hamlets.

Proposals include to develop large amphitheatre-style teaching areas and 63 offices dedicated to supporting postgraduates with their studies.

The university's School of Economics and Finance will also relocate to the new building, which will feature a cafe, lecture theatre and seminar rooms along with a common room and terrace.

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Bouygues UK's MD for Construction London, Arnaud Bekaert, said: "We are delivering a new building, on a busy student campus, in close proximity to London Underground – each of which presents different, simultaneous challenges for us during the construction phase.

"The eight-storey facility will be built with two concrete cores and feature a 750 tonne steel frame with a brick facade and curtain wall. The building has an irregular facade so it is not uniform in design.

"Due to its proximity to the Central Line, the building has also had to incorporate features to absorb and minimise vibrations from the trains using the underground, as have our construction methods."

Architects WilkinsonEyre will collaborate with Bouygues on the project.

Stafford Critchlow, Director, WilkinsonEyre, said: "We are delighted that construction has started on this our fourth project on the Queen Mary Mile End Campus."

Enabling works have already been carried out on the site.

The project is due to be completed in late 2016.

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