Monday 14 April 2008

Campus plan for new student homes

MAYNOOTH University plans to undertake its biggest ever construction project by developing new student accommodation on its campus.

Up to 300 new rooms will be available for students when construction is completed in June 2010.

Officials at the university hope the building will be designed by the summer, with construction work due to start before Christmas.

Although they did not give an estimated costing on the plans, a spokesman for the university said: "We do, however, realise that this could be the highest-cost building in the history of the university."

The second oldest university in the country, it has about 8,000 students. Some 1,500 of these are postgraduates.

Meanwhile, University College Dublin (UCD) is to build a synthetic hockey pitch at the Bellfield campus.

Work on the project will commence after the current college term this summer.

Irish Independent

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