Jacobs wins UK university design contract

US-based Jacobs Engineering Group has been awarded a contract to provide structural and civil engineering design for the expansion of the Robert Gordon University's Garthdee campus near Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.

The project will involve construction of new facilities for the schools of art, architecture, social sciences, and pharmacy as well as a learning resource center, technology campus and an extension to the business school.

No exact value was given for the project, but in a statement the company said, the project has "a value in excess of UK£ 100 million (€ 117 million)".

The university has two campus sites - one in the city centre, the other at Garthdee. The Garthdee site steeply slopes and is set in woodland on the banks of the River Dee.

The new facilities will complement the campus' existing buildings and provide an educational as well as recreational environment in a park-like setting.