The price pipped bids from Kier and Osborne to secure the Penrhyn Road campus project, which will see the firm demolish an existing building to make way for the 120,000 sq ft complex.
Designed by Grafton Architects the education complex will boast open colonnades along two of the building’s elevations and rise to various heights ranging up to six storeys.
The building, which gained full planning earlier this month, will consist of a library with a permanent home for the collections and special archive, flexible project space, specialist learning spaces for dance and a 300 seat auditorium.
Grafton Director Shelley McNamara said: “There is clearly a collective vision at Kingston University for a refreshingly open and innovative learning environment as well as for how the architecture of the new building will house and represent this vision.”