THE CONWAY INSTITUTE, UCD

THE CONWAY INSTITUTE, UCD

THE CONWAY INSTITUTE, UCD

PJ Hegarty used precast concrete panels with bands of natural grey granite in an effort to match the materials and expression of the site’s original building, while delivering an innovative design. The result is a cutting-edge facility that was a European benchmark in bioscience laboratory design at that time. It houses specialist biomedical facilities including dedicated research technology laboratories.

Client : UCD
Service : Education
Architect : Scott Tallon Walker
Quantity surveyors : Desmond MacGreevey & Partners
Structural engineer : Arup Engineering
Services engineer : JV Tierney
Value : €30 million

The Conway Institute on the Belfield campus at University College Dublin is a three-storey state-of-the-art biomolecular and biomedical research facility with a fourth floor at basement level. A total floor plan of 11,500m² comprises open-plan and column-free research laboratories, shared write-up and social spaces plus offices, with undergraduate teaching facilities, a biomedical animal facility, a lecture theatre and seminar rooms housed on the ground and lower ground floors.