The contractor's winning bid came in at £17.8m, 11% under the £20m estimate.
The project is a collaboration between Birkbeck University of London and the University of East London and will be home to several departments from each university.
Designed by Ken Shuttleworth’s architecture firm Make, the building is set to be rated BREEAM excellent. The consultant team includes Aecom, Plinke Landscape Ltd, Fluid Structures, Gardiner & Theobald, Gleeds and GL Hearn.
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