The UTC will be built adjacent to the £175m Laboratory of Molecular Biology, which was completed by BAM last year.

The three-storey university technical college will accommodate 670 students who will specialise in biomedical and environmental sciences and technologies. It will include five super labs on the top floor.

Sustainability features will include a combined heat and power plant to provide low-carbon energy, photovoltaic cells and gravel beds to control rainwater run-off.

Pupils at Long Road Sixth Form College and Cambridge Regional College, both of which are sponsoring the UTC, will have the opportunity to learn from the construction project. Local suppliers will be used where possible.

BAM regional design manager Malcolm Boyd said: ‘We are very excited to be back building science facilities in Cambridge. The LMB project helped us develop our designs for the science laboratories in the UTC, a key contribution to this important win for BAM.”

Start on site is scheduled for September, with the UTC due to open a year later at the start of the 2014/15 academic year.

BAM’s design arm will carry out structural design as well as specifying furniture, fittings and equipment.

It will work closely with architect Hawkins Brown on the scheme. BAM Plant will work closely with the project team to provide plant equipment and services that will reduce cost, risk and environmental impact.