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The building will have up to three levels above the ground and will house study rooms, auditoriums, and offices as well as an indoor shooting gallery, a virtual simulation center, a fire safety laboratory, a prison imitation environment and other special premises specific to the studies, Nordecon told the stock exchange.

The sports complex will include a full-size hall for ballgames, a gym, and mat halls required for hand-to-hand combat trainings. The gross surface area of the building will be 12,069 square meters. 

"The Academy of Security Sciences has been operating in Tallinn already for years in Soviet-era buildings with lacking functionality, which are big, expensive to maintain and some even at a risk of collapsing," said the rector of the academy, Katri Raik. "By the academy's 27th year of operation we will get in the place of the present very problematic structures a modern study complex that we can be proud of."

Nordecon AS board member Erkki Suurorg described the construction of the new main building of the Academy of Security Sciences as a very important project for Nordecon. "Compared with the present building of the Academy of Security Sciences, which has a tremendous amount of space but little necessary rooms with the right functionality, the new building will be definitely significantly more comfortable for students," he said.

The construction works will be completed in December 2018. The total cost of the contract is 15.5 million euros plus value added tax. 

The new building will consume approximately 75 percent less energy than the existing structure.

The project will be financed using the EU Cohesion Funds and according to information dating from this spring the total project cost is approximately 16.4 million euros, of which EU support will make up 13.9 million euros.

In addition to the Tallinn compound housed in the buildings of a former Soviet military college on the eastern outskirts of Tallinn, the Academy of Security Sciences has facilities at Paikuse in Parnu county and at Vaike-Maarja in West-Viru County. The academy employs 230 people and some 1,000 cadets study at the academy.