The four-storey building will be built next to the Spark building on the university's East Park Terrace Campus. The project team is now on-site and completion is scheduled for summer 2019.
Features will include two sports halls, three fitness studios, a health and well-being gym, a strength and conditioning high performance gym and high-quality teaching facilities. Underground car parking facilities will also be developed.
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The project teams includes ArchitecturePLB, Arup, and planning consultants JLL.
Andy Duff, managing director at Morgan Sindall in the South, said: "This ambitious scheme will help the university enhance its sport, health and fitness related degree programmes by providing specialist sport and fitness practical spaces.
"The new sports centre will create a real presence as people enter the East Park Terrace campus and we're looking forward to delivering a great facility."
Southampton Solent University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Graham Baldwin, said: "Starting work on the new sports building is great news for our students and staff, as well as our local community and the city.
"It forms the latest phase of our exciting, ongoing estates development and in addition to our sector leading Spark building, it's a further physical manifestation of our commitment to excellence in learning and teaching."
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