The new accommodation facilities being built at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, will enable the institution to provide lodgings for an additional 1,584 students over the next three years.
Construction is set to last for 48 months.
The schedule will see 576 rooms being ready for occupation at the start of each school year in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
The project is being undertaken at a cost of $4-billions.
Under the terms of the partnership, a property development company will design, build and operate the student accommodations, on lands leased from the UWI, Mona.
At the end of the lease period, the property developer will transfer the buildings to the UWI free of cost.
The project will see the construction of 11 buildings at six storeys high, with each building having 1-hundred-and-44 rooms.
Rooms will be arranged in clusters of 12, with each bedroom having its own bathroom.
Each cluster will have a fully equipped kitchen and a furnished common area.
All buildings and rooms will be configured for access by the disabled.
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