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Kier starts £56m Royal College of Art campus

Source: http://www.constructionenquirer.com/category/news/

Kier has started work on the Royal College of Art’s south London student campus in Battersea.Its £56m building project will involve a long 4-storey Studio Building with workshops, teaching and exhibition space alongside an 8-storey Research Building for materials science, advanced manufacturing and driverless car design.The 170,000 sq ft project will spearhead the famous art school’s shift towards a science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics-focused postgraduate university.The project due for completion in summer 2020.Other partners for the project include architect Herzog & de Meuron and Mott MacDonald, which is providing building services, civil, structural, fire and acoustic engineering as well as strategic brief development and cost consultancy services.