Irish Life is to redevelop the main office block at its Dublin city centre headquarter campus on Lower Abbey Street. The redevelopment, which has full planning permission, will add a total of 59,600sq ft – or room for more than 500 additional workers – to the existing building, bringing it to a total area of […]
TRANSPORT Infrastructure Ireland has awarded design, engineering and project management consultancy Atkins, part of SNC-Lavalin Group, a contract to deliver the detailed design for advance works on Dublin’s MetroLink Project. The project aims to create a high-capacity, high-frequency automated metro line, plus integrated public transport network, linking the city centre and southern Greater Dublin Area […]
AN Bord Pleanála has approved a new student accommodation complex at Punches Cross that will house more than 350 students from Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick and the TUS Limerick campus. The development is designed with sustainable transport and transport friendly initiatives including 400 bike storage stands, storage and outdoor amenity spaces for residents. […]
A south Dublin residential development had secured a greenlight for a rooftop swimming pool. Red Rock Developments received permission from planners to build the pool at its Elmpark Green development on Merrion Road in Dublin 4. The property developer had sought to amend the scheme’s original proposal with the provision of “an external swimming pool at ninth-floor level” in […]
Video-sharing platform TikTok said it is at an advanced stage of finalising a plan for a second data centre in Ireland with a third-party service provider. This is in addition to a site it announced last year. In April 2022, TikTok said it had signed contracts for a data centre in Dublin to house its […]
The Government has allocated €80 million from the country’s strategic investment fund to kickstart construction on the first section of the Opera centre – the €300 million project designed to transform Limerick city centre. Read more here.
Covid-19 vaccine maker AstraZeneca has lodged plans for a $360 million (€337 million) “next generation” active pharma ingredient-manufacturing facility for north Co Dublin. Read more here.
The Crawford Art Gallery is in line for a massive seven-storey extension in Cork city. Planning permission was granted by Cork City Council for the development of the almost 300-year-old structure located at Emmet Place in the city centre. Read more here.
Amazon are looking to build three new data centres in north Dublin. The online retail giant has lodged planning applications for the centres which will be located at the company’s site in Mulhuddart. The site on Cruiserath Road makes up around 65 acres and already has one completed centre on site with two other under construction. It’s expected […]
ESB Networks has launched its ‘Networks for Net Zero Strategy’ which outlines its commitment to futureproofing Ireland’s electricity network and making the country’s goal of net zero by 2050 a reality. This will require deploying innovative solutions now which are scalable to meet the electricity needs of the nation by 2040. The Networks for Net […]