Bids invited for £60m Kent university job
The University of Kent is looking to appoint a design and build contractor for the construction of 762-bed student accomodation and a 150 bed hotel and conference centre on the Chaucer Field site of the Canterbury Campus.
Most of the student accommodation will be shared apartments located in five blocks, each four storeys high. Two other blocks contain student rooms in townhouses and a number of one-bedroom flats.
The proposed hotel and conference centre is three-to-four storeys and this will be stepped and built into the slope to reduce visual impact …