Construction work has commenced on NUI Galway’s new €30 million Human Biology Building, which will house the existing university disciplines of Anatomy, Physiology & Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
Around one-third of the project will be funded by the Exchequer – including €7m as announced recently in Budget 2015 – with the remaining two thirds funded from university sources. It will help to sustain up to 200 construction jobs at its peak.
The Human Biology Building is a five-storey building plus roof level plant enclosure with a gross floor area of 8,200m² located adjacent to the Áras na Mac Léinn and Áras Uí Chathail buildings.
The purpose of the building will be to provide a facility in which these disciplines will, within a research-led environment:
■ Deliver core preclinical curricula to Medical and Health Science students
■ Deliver core curricula to Science, Biomedical Science and Engineering students
■ Provide a venue for discipline specific training at 3rd and 4th Level
The building has been designed as a teaching and research facility with accommodation including undergraduate teaching laboratories, research laboratories, offices, open plan write-up spaces, meeting rooms, tiered lecture theatres and other ancillary areas.
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