Balfour Beatty and the Miller consortium have been selected to go through to the third and final stage of the Penglais Farm new student residences project.
Sir Robert McAlpine failed to make the cut.
Aberystwyth University has been engaged in a competitive dialogue tender process since March 2011 when a contract notice was posted on the Official Journal of the European Union inviting expressions of interest from potential developers. The project will provide accommodation for 1,000 students in self-catering accommodation.
The university has appointed Pick Everard as technical adviser to the project team.
James Wallace, the university’s residential development director, said: “We are pleased with the progress made with the competitive dialogue process, and the quality of submissions, as the university remains on schedule to provide the very best possible residential student experience for the future. It is anticipated that the Phase 3 of the competitive dialogue will be complete by late spring with selection of a preferred bidder, and with financial close expected by the end of the summer 2012, so that the university’s handover target date of 2014 is achieved.”
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