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On project final construction approval, the supplier will continue to lead the project through RIBA stages 5 and 6 handover to SAMS by the end of February 2028. The contractor is to design, specify, plan and cost control the expansion of SAMS' Ocean Explorer Centre, an exhibition space about the marine environment, to include learning spaces. The Ocean Learning Hub will provide different spaces where people of all ages (but with a focus on schools) can learn about the marine environment through playing, imagining, exploring, making, experimenting, debating, performing, exhibiting as well as through watching films and presentations. Flexibility of the spaces is essential given fast changing education and technology requirements and opportunities. The hub's style will fit with the existing exhibition facility.. 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