Dr Louis Gunnigan

Dublin Institute of Technology Campus Planning Team

DIT New City Centre Campus at Grangegorman

20 May 2015

• Background

• Governance

• Milestones

• Challenges

• Progress

• Future Works

Agenda

• 120+ years of excellence in education

• 39 locations around Dublin

• 10% of third level in Ireland

• National provider

• Applied, career-focused education

• Degree-awarding; apprenticeship to PhD

• 80% of graduates employed in

professions

• Always ranked in top 4 for CAO

applications

• Ranked in top 4% THES world rankings

Dublin Institute of Technology

20,000

students

200 part-time

programmes

4,000 graduates &

500 postgraduates

per year

85 full-time

programmes

1,800 staff

4 colleges

DIT across the city

Bolton St.

Chatham Row

Cathal Brugha St.

Aungier St.

Kevin St.

Rathmines

Mountjoy Sq.

DIT before Grangegorman

• To provide education that meets DIT’s social,

economic, and cultural mission.– Via student-centred learning.

– Using leading-edge technology.

– With facilities currently lacking.

Why Move?

Student Accommodation

Sports

Recreation

• Synergies and opportunities

• Consistently excellent integrated student experience

Significant costs to upgrade

existing premises

Lack of critical mass – clubs

and societies

Interdisciplinary activities

New & emerging disciplines

Modularised offerings

30 Ha site in the heart of Dublin.

1.3km

City Centre Site

DIT’s Part of the City

Trinity

College

UCD

DIT

DCU

Project Governance

Masterplan

Integration with surrounding streets

Urban scale and form

Incorporating existing protected structures

Exploiting existing landscape and views

•2009 Urban Design Award US Institute of Architects

•2009 World Architecture Festival

•2010 Chicago Athenaeum 2010 American Architecture Award

•2012 American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Honor Award for Regional & Urban Design

•2012 Honor Award - Society for College and University Planning

• Comprehensive strategic planning framework for

380,000m2 of phased development

• Extensive public consultation

• Approval of SDZ by Dublin City Council

• Approval on appeal from the An Bord Pleanála

Strategic Development Zone (SDZ)

DIT Milestones to date

DIT Campus Planning Office

relocates to Grangegorman

2007Preparation of Draft DIT

Strategic Briefs

DIT Campus Planning Office

Established2002

“Joining the Dots”Employment Study

May 2009

Masterplan Approved 2008

Cabinet DecisionJuly 2010

& Government

Launch September

2010

Concept planning Education

Related Lands

Transferred Feb 2012 to

GDA

SDZ Planning Approval May 2012 New

Implementation Programmes for

DIT May 2012

Government announce

revised funding

arrangementsJuly 2012

2013First building

works contracts

begin

First 1000 students arrived

Sept 2014

Future DIT Milestones

DIT becomes part of Dublin

Technological University 2015/16

Central and East Quads complete10,000 students on site

Sept 2017

Greenway Hub (EHSI/Hothouse Building)

to open Q1 2016

GDA sells DIT buildings at Kevin St and

Cathal Brugha St2018

Construction begins on Student

Accommodation and Library Building

2016

West Quad (Business College)

complete 2020

Engineering and Built

Environment Quad complete

2023

Energy Centre constructed and commissioned

2016

Progress - Grangegorman 2008 - 2015

Progress

Nov 2013

Nov 2014

Current Principle Funding Sources

Pre-Planning

Grangegorman Works Packages – Status at May 2015

Procurement / Construction

Design/Planning

Completed

Future Works Packages

Site Infrastructure & Public Realm

HSE

Community

Nursing Unit

DIT Student

Accommodation

Phase 1

DIT Foodhall

Prussia St

GateEnergy

Centre

DIT

Academic

Hub Ph1

DIT Indoor

Sports Ph1

DOES

Primary

School

DIT Central Quad

DIT East QuadBroadstone

GateHSE Primary

Care

DIT

Greenway

Hub

DIT

Broombridge

Phase 1

DIT

Stabilisation

Works

Dublin Bus

Bus Park

DIT PPP

DIT

Adaptive Reuse

Clock Tower

DIT Demolitions

Contracts 1 & 2

DIT

Adaptive Reuse

Contracts 1 & 2

HSE

Phoenix Centre

DIT Eng/BE

Quad

DIT

Student

Centre

DIT West

Quad

DIT Student

Accommodation

Phase 2

DIT

Adaptive Reuse

Contract 3

Demolition– complete

Stabilisation– Underway

Site Infrastructure works

SIPR- West side complete

- Smithfield SW drain Completed

- East side Works substantially complete

LUAS works

Bus parking structure SIPRStabilisation of Lower House

Energy Distribution

Primary Underground Services Utilities Route - Masterplan

Primary Underground Services Utilities Route - Tranche 1 &

Masterplan

T

P

P

EXISTING ESBN SUBSTATION (HSE)

PROPOSED ESBN SUBSTATION (WEST)

TEMPORARY EXISTING ESBN SUBSTATION

(MORTUARY BLD)

PROPOSED ESBN SUBSTATION (EAST)

FUTURE ENERGY CENTRECOMMUNICATIONS ROOM B (MORTUARY

BLD)

COMMUNICATIONS ROOM A

(TOP HOUSE)

NATURAL GAS TIE-IN POINT (TBC)

INCOMING CABLE CHAMBER

Services Infrastructure

Adaptive Reuse

Adaptive Reuse

North House Studios

Adaptive Reuse

Adaptive Reuse – Cluster Buildings

North House

Adaptive reuse

Adaptive Reuse – (Cluster Buildings)

Complete Q1 2016

Floor Area 4,700m2

Design & Build Contract

Greenway HubGreenway Hub (ESHI and Hothouse)

East Quad

• ~16,000 m2

• ~3,000 students

• Creative arts and digital

media

Programme 2 - PPP Development (2012-17)

Central Quad

• ~34000m2

• ~7,000 students

• Consolidation of science,

health, food, tourism,

electrical/electronic

engineering

Phase 3 - New Construction Works up to 2018

HSE Primary Care

DOES Educate Together

Primary School

DIT Central Quad

DIT Student Accommodation Phase 1

& Dining Hall and Student Centre

DIT East Quad

DIT Academic Hub Phase 1

DIT Energy Centre Phase 1

DIT Sports Centre Phase 1

RPA LUAS

Broadstone Gate

Prussia St Gate

• Sports Phase 2 (6,000m2)

• Academic Hub Phase 2 (5,000m2)

• Relocation of Focus Building (3,000m2)

• Business Quad (8,500m2)

• Engineering/Built Environment Quad (27,000m2)

• Other Learning spaces (7,000m2)

• Second Dining Hall (7,500m2)

• Refurb of remaining of protected structures (2,000m2)

• 900 further Student Beds (total 57,000m2)

• Retail (3,600m2)

• Maintenance/Services/Utilities (2,800m2)

• Industry/Incubation Centre (10,800m2)

• Additional research space (6,300m2)

• Additional performance space (3,600m2)

• Further Expansion spaces (34,000m2)

(All areas provisional)

Programmes 4, 5 and beyond

• Huge programme of works

• Diverse contract types

• Multiple funding sources required

• All current milestones achieved

• On time to achieve 2017 milestone

• Enormous programme of works over next 4/5 years

Conclusion

http://www.dit.ie/grangegorman/