Bouygues UK has been appointed to built two education facilities in South Wales after securing a contract worth £119m.

Cardiff and Vale College (CAVC) has chosen Bouygues UK, the UK subsidiary of Bouygues Construction, to build the Barry Waterfront Campus and the Advanced Technology Centre in Glamorgan, South Wales.

The two facilities will welcome their first students in 2027.

The Barry Waterfront Campus (BWC), to be built on a brownfield site, will be a further education centre and vocational college accommodating up to 900 students.

The Advanced Technology Centre (ATC), which will be located at Cardiff Airport, will focus on key growth areas, including AI, composites, rapid prototyping, advanced design, electronics and net zero carbon technologies. It will have capacity for 2,000 students.

In addition to flexible classrooms and workshops, the building will include a higher education business centre, an advanced composites manufacturing facility, labs for leading-edge robotics and mechatronics, and a “green skills house” to train students in installing renewable technologies.

Both the facilities will meet the Welsh Government’s decarbonisation requirements and both will be carbon neutral in their operational phase.

The buildings were designed by Sheppard Robson Architects and work on-site will get underway this month with completion expected in mid-2027.

Philippe Bernard, CEO of Bouygues UK, said: “This project symbolises our commitment to creating buildings that are useful to society, innovative and sustainable.

“Our support for Cardiff and Vale College in the development of these two new campuses is part of our tangible contribution to the training of tomorrow’s talent and to the ecological transition of the education sector.”