Work begins on £27.5m University of Huddersfield campus

Work on a new £27.5m campus is now underway at the University of Huddersfield, which is expected to become one of the region’s most striking structures.

Construction firm, Morgan Sindall, has secured the contract to construct a new six-storey home for the University’s School of Law and part of the School of Music, Humanities and Media.

The new building, named Student Central, will be adjacent to the Creative Arts Building and the most recent addition to the campus.

Overlooking Huddersfield’s Shorehead roundabout, one of the most important road arteries in the town, the new Law and Humanities building was designed by the Huddersfield-based architectural firm AHR.

The building will be completed and ready for use by the start of 2017.

His Royal Highness The Duke of York – who is now Chancellor of the University – laid the foundation stone for the new building when he paid a visit in March.

Morgan Sindall, which is assessed to be one of Britain’s top ten building contractors, has previously carried out specialist refurbishment projects at the University of Huddersfield, and in addition to its work on the new Law and Humanities building, the firm has also been awarded a new contract to carry out a major new development at the University’s Institute of Railway Research.

The architects AHR also have an established relationship with the University, having designed the Harold Wilson Building and refurbishments of the West Building and the historic Ramsden Building.

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