Stockholm-based builder and developer Skanska has signed a $165 million contract with Texas A&M University to construct a new building in College Station, Texas.
The contractor will construct a new biology teaching and research building for the university, which is a repeat client, according to a Friday news release. The approximately 185,000-square-foot facility will replace several outdated biology buildings on the campus, creating a state‑of‑the‑art environment for education.
The center will feature research laboratories, active‑learning classrooms, immersive technology spaces and dedicated collaboration zones to support advanced biological and biomedical research.
Construction on the project is slated to begin in spring 2027 and is expected for completion in spring 2029.
The announcement arrives a little over a year after Texas A&M celebrated the grand opening of a previous Skanska-built project.
In early 2025, the $64 million Wayne Roberts ‘85 Building opened its doors. The 80,000-square-foot addition was part of the university’s business education complex expansion. It boasts a 250-seat grand atrium and eight learning studios with a 48-student capacity.
And Skanska doesn’t work with just the Aggies.
Within a week of announcing it had topped out on the Wayne Roberts project in 2023, Skanska shared it had won a $100 million contract with the Texas State University System to construct a new science, technology, engineering and math building at the university’s San Marcos campus.
Skanska anticipates completion of the project in May. The eight-story, 155,900-square-foot building will house math and computer science departments, with space for teaching, departmental offices and research labs.
Building relationships
Skanska has a history of working for and partnering with universities.
On the Wayne Roberts build, Skanska said it exceeded its commitment to the university by spending 33% of the total contract value with historically underutilized businesses, surpassing the agreed-upon goal by 7%.
It also invests in smaller, underutilized projects as business partners. For example, Skanska’s Building Blocks program partners with colleges, including the University of South Florida, to create multiweek courses on contracting methods, insurance bonds, safety requirements and sustainability.
The program aims to forge a partnership that both Skanska and the participating company can capitalize on. First started in 2007, the Building Blocks program has educated about 800 companies and led to approximately $740 million in contracts with Skanska, Tracy Hunt, general manager for Skanska’s Florida operations told Construction Dive in March 2025.
