The University of Massachusetts Amherst in the USA has selected Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions to develop new undergraduate, graduate, and family housing on campus. The campus initiated a request for proposals through the UMass Building Authority (UMBA) last year and the Balfour Beatty/Axium team was selected from a large pool of competitive responses. The university is working with the team to design the projects, develop the final deal terms, and will then return to the UMass Board of Trustees and the UMBA Board for their review and final approval. The project will provide recurring opportunities for student input throughout the design process.

The project includes development along Massachusetts Avenue of approximately 600 beds of undergraduate apartment-style housing and approximately 200 beds of graduate student apartment-style housing. The project also includes the development of approximately 120 family housing units at the site of the former North Village Apartments. The targeted completion dates are fall 2022 for the family housing and fall 2023 for the Massachusetts Avenue housing.