Contractor lined up to build five-storey building for the university鈥檚 St Hugh鈥檚 College

Greg Fitzgerald

Galliford Try chief executive Greg Fitzgerald

Galliford Try is set to win a contract to build the 拢17m Oxford University China Centre.

The contractor is close to securing the deal to build the five-storey-building on the St Hugh鈥檚 College site in the city, 好色先生TV understands.

The 70,000 ft2 building will contain a 100-seat lecture theatre, a communal Chinese courtyard, two language laboratories, four seminar rooms and 69 offices and 63 en suite student rooms.

It will also contain a dedicated library with study carrels and a reading room, which will provide a permanent home for books from the Bodleian Library鈥檚 China Collection.

It is mostly being funded by a donation from Hong-Kong based philanthropist Dickson Poon CBE.

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