The five new towers, ranging in height from 8 to 18 floors, will provide over 800 affordable student bedrooms and space at ground level for new Students’ Union and fitness facilities.

The development is being built by Bouygues on the site of the university’s car park and is due to be ready for students starting courses this September.

As part of its environmental consciousness pledge, the University asked the company to also ensure it reduced its carbon emissions and improved the local air quality in the built-up area around the construction site.

Cole selected GreenD+, a high performance low emission HVO fuel supplied by Green Biofuels Ltd, in order to achieve the goals set by Brighton University, without incurring any additional capital expenditure to deliver the project in line with its sustainability goals. The alternative fuel is ready to use in any existing diesel engines without any prepatory mechanical enhancements.

Clayton Parsons, Site Manager, Bouygues UK, said: “Bouygues UK is conscious of our environmental impact as a result of our core activities in construction and are constantly adapting in an effort to reduce this impact.

“We are proud to partner with Cole Groundworks to advance initiatives which will reduce our carbon footprint. We welcome the use of Green D+ fuels on our project here in Brighton and congratulate our supply chain partners for their efforts in this regard and encourage any others which are willing to take part too.”

Conor Cole, Managing Director, Cole Groundwork Contracts, said: “We are delighted to be the first Irish company to be using this advanced HVO fuel in all our sites across the UK, we plan to introduce this to all our sites now in Ireland also.