Buildings on Campus

Key Facts & Highlights

• Built: 1960
• Heritage / Protected Building: No
• Launched: 1960
• Floors: 1 with 2 mezzanines
• Eircode: D01 K822 (Bolton St campus)
• Building Code: BT
• Facilities include:
  • A range of lecture rooms
• Key spaces include:
  • BT-003 Heavy vehicle mechanics
  • BT-007 Vehicle body repair
  • BT-016 Blowtherm Booth
  • BT-017 Spray Booth

Key Facts & Highlights

• Built: c 1908
• History: 
  • Designed by Dublin city architect CJ McCarthy. Constructed of red brick and Mountcharles sandstone, a solid example of a Georgian Revival design. McCarthy was the son of leading Victorian gothic architect JJ McCarthy (1817-82) who was responsible for many churches and Roman-catholic Cathedrals around Ireland.
  • Has been a centre for education for over 100 years - Commenced as College of Technology in 1911, then Dublin Institute of Technology in 1992 & finally achieved University status with Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) in 2018
• Heritage / Protected Building: Yes (main structure)
• Launched: 1911
• Floors: 3 excluding mezzanines
• Eircode: D01 K822 (Bolton St campus)
• Building code: BL
• Facilities include:
  
  • Practical Workshops including Advanced Manufacturing, Automation, CAD, Heating, Pneumatics, Soils, Thermodynamics, Fibreglass
  • Workshops including Automotive, Light vehicle, Manufacturing Tech
  • Studios including environmental & planning, geomatics, product design, Graphic Design
  • Informal learning spaces
  • Seminar / tutorial / meeting / lecture / computer labs
• Key spaces include:
  • BL-281 John D. Barry Lecture Theatre 
  • BL-259 Michael O'Donnell Lecture Theatre
  • BL-153 Student common area (includes pool tables)
  • BL-369 Library

Fun Facts

• Plaster representations of artisan figures decorate the hallway and corridors of this ornate building. The figures are casts from John Henry Foley's models for figures at the base of the Albert Memorial on Leinster Lawn. 
• The Boomtown Rats' first-ever gig took place in this building on 31st October 1975. Bob Geldof and Pete Briquette, two of the founding band members who performed at that gig 50 years ago, returned to the place of the birth of The Boomtown Rats to unveil a commemorative plaque on the front of this historic building.

Campus Development

Building was extended 1961 and again in 1987

Key Facts & Highlights

• Built: c 1820
• History: Modest late Georgian building formed part of a terrace of shops, with residential space upstairs & open basement, located on Capel Street, which was one of the primary thoroughfares of the city until the early part of the twentieth century.
• Heritage / Protected Building: Yes
• Launched: Unrenovated (Office space)
• Floors: 4 plus basement 
• Eircode: D01 K822 (Bolton St campus)
• Building code: CP

Key Facts & Highlights

• Built: 1920
• Heritage / Protected Building: No
• Launched: 1920
• Floors: 2
• Eircode: D01 K822 (Bolton St campus)
• Building Code: EB
• Faculties include:
  • PC labs / classrooms / meeting / seminar rooms
  • Practical labs
  • Research

Key Facts & Highlights

• Built: 1962
• Heritage / Protected Building: No
• Launched: 1962
• Floors: 4 plus basement
• Eircode: D01 K822 (Bolton St campus)
• Building code: LI
• Facilities include:
  • Design Studios including Architecture
  • Practical studios including Timber Tech, Modelling
  • Workshops including Woodwork, Wood Manufacturing & Finishing, Plumbing, refrigeration, Brick & Stone, Metal Fabrication, Sheet Metalwork, Woodwork (carpentry & Joinery), Painting & Decorating, Welding
  • Seminar / tutorial / meeting / lecture / computer labs
• Key spaces include:
  • LI-033 Gallery / multi functional space