T&T bags role on two schemes for Durham University

The University is aiming to build a new teaching and learning centre and enhance its sports parkTurner & Townsend has won lead roles on two projects for Durham University.The services provided will include project managment and cost consultancy services as well as assuming overall responbility for commissioning for the scheme.T&T has already appointed architect Faulkner Brown, engineer Burro Happold, planning consultant DPP One and landscape architect as its subconsultants to take the projects from design through to completion.The university is looking to build a new 8,000 sq m teaching and learning centre and enhance its sports park.The teaching and learning centre will house lecture theatres, teaching and seminar rooms, education labs, and hold academic conferences outside of term time. It is anticipated the building would be completed for the 2019/20 academic year.A new artificial football and rugby pitch and two new water-based hockey pitches will be created at the University’s Maiden Castle Sports Park and the existing building is to be extended to include an indoor sports hall, cricket facility and indoor tennis courts. The upgrade of the sports park is expected to complete by autumn 2018.