Grangegorman’s growing campus attracts locals

Technological University Dublin is once again expanding its north inner-city campus with new building under construction – as the builder’s hoardings have come down on a crucial new edifice.

The latest project will bring an academic hub and a new library to the campus.

“The university’s new 12,600 square meter academic hub and library on our Grangegorman campus, with new state-of-the-art facilities, will be ready for students in summer 2025,” TU Dublin spokesperson Aileen Holmes told The Liberty.

The construction is by OHL-Townlink Joint Venture Ltd.

TUD completed the biggest finished projects on its Grangegorman campus, the East Quad and Central Quad buildings, during the Covid pandemic.

The final remaining piece of the puzzle will be a 20,000-square-metre building called the “West Quad”, nearest the Prussia Street side of the campus. West Quad will be the home of the Faculty of Business, which is currently still on Aungier Street.

TUD has also redeveloped and renovated some of the area’s old buildings, including Lower House and Rathdown House, as well as the currewnt library on the NCR at Park House.

With children often around the East Quad to attend music lessons, the campus has a community feel.

The campus walkways and grounds are the most important feature of the college to the locals and surrounding communities, as what was once a psychiatric hospital is now a college that is open to the public.

“The college is an amazing facility for the area from the use of the pitches to the public to the walk around the college,” local man Donal O’Shea told The Liberty.

“It is an uplift to the community to have these beautiful buildings being built in the area bringing a new kind of people to the area,” O’Shea said.