Jan 20 2010
Skanska (STO:SKAB) has secured the contract to construct a new Teaching and Research Facility at the university in Tampa, Florida, in the U.S. The contract value is USD 55 M, approximately SEK 395 M, which will be included in order bookings for the fourth quarter of 2009.
The customer is the University of South Florida (USF).
The new Interdisciplinary Science Teaching and Research Facility will be built on the university’s central campus in Tampa. The building will be about 22,000 square meters in size and house teaching and researching facilities for physics, biology, chemistry, anatomy and nanotechnologies.
The building will be designed to meet the requirements for Gold-Level Certification in accordance with the LEED international environmental classification system (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design).
Skanska USA Building at Skanska USA will perform the work, which will commence shortly and is scheduled to be completed by August 2011.
Source: http://www.skanska.com/