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Will UBC’s two new 18-storey residential towers for foreign students and others, plus lecture halls and classrooms, be finished by September?

Construction crews are working late into the evenings this month to finish the massive new complex, which early media reports say started out exclusively for foreign students, but now may allow some others.

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While the mainstream media has been regularly informed about the construction of UBC’s new timber building, Brock Commons, which will be the tallest wooden structure in the world when it’s completed next year, little attention has been given to UBC’s almost-complete foreign-student facility.

Dubbed Orchard Commons and housing Vantage College, the complex will have more than 1,000 residential units, which early media reports said were mostly for foreign students, plus extensive classrooms, lecture halls and meeting areas.

Vantage College is open to full-fee-paying foreign students, many of whom do not meet the university’s regular English-language requirements.