Contractor lined up to build five-storey building for the university’s St Hugh’s College
Galliford Try is set to win a contract to build the £17m Oxford University China Centre.
The contractor is close to securing the deal to build the five-storey-building on the St Hugh’s College site in the city, Building understands.
The 70,000 ft2 building will contain a 100-seat lecture theatre, a communal Chinese courtyard, two language laboratories, four seminar rooms and 69 offices and 63 en suite student rooms.
It will also contain a dedicated library with study carrels and a reading room, which will provide a permanent home for books from the Bodleian Library’s China Collection.
It is mostly being funded by a donation from Hong-Kong based philanthropist Dickson Poon CBE.
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