Construction firm Willmott Dixon has won a £31 million contract to build the third phase of Birmingham City University's (BCU) Eastside expansion.

The firm has been appointed is to extend the Curzon Building.

The new Curzon B extension will house over 3,000 students and members of staff and feature more than 650-rooms, a Student Hub, lecture theatre and mock courtrooms. It adds a further 100,000 square foot extension to the Curzon Building, named 2015's Project of the Year by Midland Business Insider.


Curzon B is designed by Birmingham-based firm Associated Architects and follows Willmott Dixon's completion of the £63 million Curzon Building in September last year.

Peter Owen, managing director for Willmott Dixon's Midlands business, said: "We are delighted to be back working with BCU given our close relationship with the university since 2011 where we've helped give them a new central city campus that provides some of the best learning facilities in the country. This latest project really does make Birmingham the university capital of England."

Work on Curzon B starts this month and is expected to be completed by September 2017.

(CD/JP)