John Turner Construction has won a £18.8 million contract to deliver a extension at Lancaster University's business school.

The North West contractor will complete a new five-storey building for the Lancaster University Management School (LUMS)

Located next to the Management School and Gillow Avenue on Lancaster University's Bailrigg campus, the new LUMS building will offer cutting-edge facilities and significantly more space for students, staff and partners. It will include three new lecture theatres, collaboration space, a new reception, multiple offices and an executive teaching suite.


The new building will be delivered in time for the beginning of the 2020/21 academic year.

The Dean of Lancaster University Management School, Professor Angus Laing, said: "As one of the first business schools established in the UK, we have a proud history of pushing boundaries and conventions to challenge our students and prepare them to become our future leaders. This building marks the start of an exciting LUMS' development and will mean we can ready ourselves for the future. The new building will be followed by a refurbishment of our existing facilities to provide innovative study space and a unique all-round experience for our students, staff, business partners and visitors."

(CM/MH)