Bouygues UK has been awarded a £119m contract to build two new campuses in the Welsh town of Barry.
Work on the Barry Waterfront Campus (BWC) and the Advanced Technology Centre (ATC) will begin in June with a completion date of summer 2027.
The educational facilities, developed by the Welsh Education Partnership Company, will together provide places for 3,000 students.
Based at Cardiff Airport, the 13,000 square metre ATC will accommodate almost 2,000 learners and is close to the International Centre for Aerospace Training.
In addition to flexible classrooms and workshops, the building will also include a Higher Education Business Centre, an advanced composites manufacturing facility, state of the art robotics and a mechatronics labs.
The second college, the 6,000sqm BWC, will be a state-of-the-art further education facility for 900 students.
The BWC is the latest development to be built on the brownfield site in the heart of Barry’s Waterfront Innovation Quarter where regeneration initiatives began in 2010.
The new campuses, which will be open and operational for students in 2027, are being delivered through a single contract under the Mutual Investment Model (MIM) programme.
It is the largest project being delivered through the MIM programme and .
Leading the project for Bouygues UK, is project director Peter Sharpe, who has led Zone 1 of the multi-million-pound leisure, business and community health facility at Pentre Awel in Llanelli for Carmarthenshire Council.
The new campuses will be maintained and operated for 25 years by Robertson FM, once construction works are completed in 2027.
Welsh minister for further and higher education, Vikki Howells said: “The Barry Waterfront campus and the Advanced Technology Centre will make a real difference to the Vale community.”
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Nicola Harley