Balfour Beatty awarded £80m London student accommodation contract
Balfour Beatty is celebrating being awarded the £80m contract to design and construct a 19-storey student accommodation building in central London for developer Urbanest, which will feature substantial off-site construction.
The scheme, on Westminster Bridge Road, will provide 1092 bedrooms for higher education students. It will also accommodate a new sixth-form college, a health suite plus swimming pool, and “affordable office space”.
The building will include PV and combined heat and power technology in order to achieve the goal of BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating …