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11 new Higher Education buildings to provide over 8,000 new student places, will form the latest Public Private Partnership (PPP) Programme and will be focused on the Institute of Technology sector. 

This PPP Programme is being rolled-out alongside €367 million in funding from the Department of Education and Skills for investment in higher education over the period 2018-2021. 

Institutes of Technology have been disproportionately affected by the fall-off in capital investment in higher education over the past decade and yet they have still shown a level of flexibility and innovation that rivals any other sector. Many Institutes are working towards the attainment of Technological University status and the new infrastructure will support them in that aim.

Construction Information Services will provide blog updates on these projects as they progress through the planning system. A full list of projects to be included in the PPP Programme is as follows:

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The following is a summary description of each of the eleven projects included in the programme.

Athlone Institute of Technology

Athlone Institute of Technology is aiming to develop a new STEM facility which will include science labs, lecture theatres, classrooms and other facilities.

Institute of Technology Blanchardstown

As part of its campus Masterplan, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown is aiming to expand its general teaching facilities to support growth in student numbers across a range of disciplines.

Institute of Technology Carlow

The project in Institute of Technology Carlow would provide additional space for STEM provision, in particular science.

Cork Institute of Technology

The proposed project is the construction of a Learning Resource Centre which would accommodate learning, study, exhibition, engagement and entrepreneurial space. It would allow CIT to increase capacity across STEM, business and humanities subjects.

Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire

The proposed project is the construction of a Digital Media Building which will house the animation and visual design communications labs, with capacity also for growth in courses in creative computing, entrepreneurship and creative technologies.

Galway Mayo Institute of Technology

GMIT has proposed the construction of a new STEM building, which would include labs, multi-purpose rooms, lab support rooms, seminar rooms and classrooms.

Limerick Institute of Technology

The proposed project is the construction of a new Applied Science & IT building on the LIT Moylish campus. The building would accommodate science labs, flat teaching facilities, computer labs, tutorial rooms, breakout and meeting spaces. 

Letterkenny Institute of Technology

The project proposed is the construction of a Library and General Education Building which will accommodate a learning resource centre, IT and innovation laboratories, online learning delivery rooms and classrooms.

Institute of Technology Tallaght

The project proposed by IT Tallaght includes a technical development centre (i.e. practice based learning facilities for engineering and science courses); facilities for the culinary arts; and new classrooms and computer labs.

Institute of Technology Tralee

The proposed project is the construction of a building to accommodate the STEM School of IT Tralee. The STEM building would be located at the Institute’s north Campus at Dromtacker.

Waterford Institute of Technology

The project would consist of the construction of a new Engineering, Computing and General Teaching Building at WIT’s Cork Road Campus.  It would provide for the consolidation of a number of faculties in one space and generate efficiencies in that respect.