TU Dublin Foundation Report 2020

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Sport, Science and Health Building,
TU Dublin Tallaght
In August 2020, work commenced on the €14.7 million Sports,
Science and Health Building on TU Dublin’s Tallaght Campus. The
construction is led by Dublin-based ABM Design and Build Ltd.
This new building will provide students and staff access to stateof-the-art
facilities including an additional 3,282 square metres of
teaching laboratories, a sports hall (1,008m 2 ), two lecture theatres
(60 students), three classrooms (3 x 30 students) and a grass
playing pitch (140m x 90m). It will support an increase in capacity
of 600 students on the associated specialist programmes,
research and teaching in exercise physiology, exercise
rehabilitation, strength and conditioning, anthropometry, biomechanics
and performance analysis.
The new Sports, Science and Health Building is part of an overall
strategic campus development plan for TU Dublin Tallaght. As
part of the Government’s Public Private Partnership Programme,
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation
and Science, Simon Harris TD, has given approval to progress
the building of a 5,200m 2 space on the Tallaght campus for
teaching and research in hospitality, culinary arts, engineering
and apprenticeship activities.
This new capital investment in teaching, learning, sports and
research at Tallaght further supports TU Dublin’s commitment to
the South Dublin region.