Plans for Grangegorman Campus accelerate

• DIT welcomes government support for city centre campus development
• Project delivers consolidation of higher education; employment; and urban regeneration

17th July 2012: Plans for the consolidation of DIT at Grangegorman gathered momentum today, following the Government announcement that funding will be made available for significant work to commence this summer as part of the economic stimulus package. By September 2014, over 1400 DIT students and staff will be located on the new city centre campus, and a total of 10,000 relocated by 2017.

Welcoming the announcement the President of DIT, Professor Brian Norton said he was delighted that real progress can now take place. “Today’s exciting announcement means we can move quickly to make this project a reality. There have been a number of false starts and disappointments before now, but that has meant that an intensive level of detailed planning has taken place and as a result we are absolutely ready to break ground today. Within two years we will have created the nucleus of the new campus with art, design, social science and the environmental health research institute leading the way. Over the following four years we will bring together all of our sciences and health provision as well as media and law, tourism and culinary arts. A significant part of our engineering provision will also move, bringing it closer to other engineering and built environment programmes that will continue to be based in Bolton Street.”

Dr. Paul Horan, Head of Campus Planning for DIT, said that within a matter of weeks work will start on listed buildings on the site. “We will be starting work on the refurbishment of some of the Victorian buildings on the site, bringing them into educational use and enabling us to vacate some buildings that are no longer fit for purpose. As well as consolidating significant DIT activities on one site, this initial work will create valuable employment as refurbishment is labour-intensive and requires skilled craftspeople. It is also very exciting to see regeneration on this historic site which will breathe new life into the surrounding neighbourhoods.” 

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