Design Team Appointment for the Sutherland School of Law
Legal skills are in high demand in a wide variety of areas including business, politics, legal practice and media. With the largest law school in the country, the UCD School of Law has an exceptional academic community where students enjoy direct engagement with experts in the field.
The University has recently completed an EU procurement process for the selection of a design team for the new Sutherland School of Law. The integrated design team will be led by Moloney O’Beirne Architects, and will include architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and project managers.
Moloney O’Beirne are an architectural firm based in Dún Laoighaire. Their previous educational experience includes the DCU School of Nursing, the Arás an Phiarsaigh building in Trinity College Dublin, and the Biosciences Building at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Their work on the Belfield campus includes the Humanities Institute Ireland, the Geary Institute and the Hannah Sheehy Skeflington Building.
The Biosciences Building NUIM and the DCU School of Nursing
The new Sutherland School of Law building is part funded by the National Development Plan 2007-2013, a major gift from Peter Sutherland SC, and from University and other resources. The new building will be situated within the precinct of the university’s landmark Gateway development.
The 5,100m² facility will enhance the number of highly skilled graduates in the legal sector in Ireland and play an important role in meeting Ireland’s knowledge economy objectives. The new building will provide modern an innovative space for teaching and learning legal skills. Rather than large lecture halls, the law school will provide a mix of smaller seminar rooms to meet the changing landscape of legal education. Technical innovation will be a hallmark of the new building, giving students and faculty members access to the best technology that can be easily incorporated into the classroom. The building will create a more dynamic learning environment at the UCD School of Law and will help strengthen the University’s law school community.
The development will include the formation of a new outer ring road which will serve the vehicular movements from the N11 entrance, Fosters Avenue and Owenstown entrances.
Planning Permission for the project has been approved and the procurement of the main works are ongoin.
Proposed site for Sutherland School of Law and initial road realignment
