Peab builds a new main building at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Peab has been commissioned to build a new main building at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Ultuna in Uppsala. The client is Akademiska Hus Uppsala AB and the contract amounts to SEK 482 million.

The new main building will include 24 000 square meters and will house facilities for education, research, management and administration. The six-storey entrance with an area of ​​7000 square meters will be designed entirely of wood.

The mission is a general contractor in cooperation and the building is expected to be ready for occupancy in spring 2015th

"We are pleased we have this confidence and it's really inspiring to be involved in the creation of a modern and vibrant campus," says Peab project manager Frederick Jihammar.

For further information, please contact:

Fredrik Jihammar, Project manager Peab +46 733 374500

Gösta Sjöström, Communication Peab +46 733 371010

Peab is the Nordic Community Builder with some 15,000 employees and more than SEK 40 billion in net sales. The Group’s subsidiaries have strategically located offices in Sweden, Norway and Finland. The share is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. The registered office of the Group is at Förslöv, Skåne in south of Sweden.