Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Research Building for NUI Galway
IEI Engineering Building of the Year Award 2013 Runner-up
This significant addition to NUIG lies in the centre of the Galway Campus and is attached to the Hardiman Library, a protected structure. It is a 4000m2 three storey building over a half-basement.
The delivery of a high quality design in a central location in the live Campus involved extensive cross communication between the American Architects (Payette of Boston), the Irish Architect (Reddy Architecture and Urbanism), the M&E Engineer (Homan O’Brien) and Barrett Mahony as well as other specialist consultants and sub-contractors.
Internally, the project provides a wide spectrum of research and student facilities. Because of its central location on the campus, the site was crossed by many services which necessitated detailed planning, to identify those parties best placed to divert these services to avoid any disruption to the university operations.
