BAM Construction has secured a £16 million contract to develop a new teaching block for the University of Lincoln.

The company will build the Isaac Newton Building on the University's Brayford Pool Campus.

The work involves creating a four-story extension to the University's existing Engineering Hub to form a new building.

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The new 7,500 sq m will include general teaching areas, a 500-seat lecture theatre, social spaces and a canteen.

Specialist facilities include rooms lined with conductive fabric to create a Faraday cage, along with a sound deadening semi-anechoic chamber.

The project will provide new facilities for the University's Schools of Engineering; Computer Science; and Mathematics & Physics.

Jason Pink, BAM's Construction Manager, said: "We are very much looking forward to returning to the University of Lincoln to add to the facility we created."

Work is scheduled to begin this autumn, with completion in early 2017.

(LM)