Graham Construction has delivered a new £8.5 million building for Liverpool Hope University.

The Health Science building contains specialist laboratory spaces dedicated to nutrition, genomics, cell biology and psychology, along with laboratories and space for sport and exercise science.

In addition, it contains a double-height robotics suite and engineering lab to assist with building/testing drones.

The building represents the first phase of a £14 million Sports Science Avenue development at the university, with work already underway on the second £6m Sports Complex phase, due for completion in October 2016.

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Gary Hughes, Regional Director at Graham, said: "This is a fantastic new building which everyone at GRAHAM is immensely proud of. As a university construction specialist we take great pleasure in creating facilities that will be used and enjoyed by many generations of students.

"The science building is located on a prime site and we have been working around a busy, live operational campus. That we have been able to do so with minimal disruption is down to the strong collaborative approach between GRAHAM, our supply chain and the university."

Professor Atulya Nagar, Dean of Science, added: "We are enormously proud of this superb new building. This is a significant development in our future as a research-informed community."

Graham worked alongside the university and project partners Watson Batty architects, structural engineers Clancy Consulting and mechanical and electrical engineers Steven A Hunt & Associates.

(LM/CD)