Welcome to UCD Campus Development
Over 25,000 students, staff and visitors use the Belfield Campus daily. They study, work and pursue sporting and leisure activities in a mature and leafy campus that is one of the finest university facilities in Ireland’s higher education sector.
UCD’s objective is to continue to enhance the world-class facilities available and to develop the quality of the Campus environment for students, staff and the wider community alike. This website gives an overview of proposed developments and plans. All developments on campus are guided and informed by our new Campus Development Plan.
UCD Lake
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The next phase of UCD’s physical development will see the establishment of a signature Gateway complex helping to achieve our ambition of a dynamic 24/7 living campus and providing opportunities for greater engagement with the wider community.
Details on our other major transformative projects, the Science District and the Student Centre Precinct are also included and will, like all elements of the site, be updated as projects progress.
In 1997, the university initiated the Programme for the Preservation of Period Houses with Newman House being the first house restored. The Belfield Campus, which is made up of a series of estates, contains a number of fine period houses many of which have been restored. Summary details of restoration works to date are available on this website.
The recently restored Belfield House
There are many other projects at concept or further advanced stages of planning, such as, the Humanities Complex, the UCD Sutherland School of Law, UCD Graduate Centre, Belfield Innovation Park, The Hume Institute, new athletics track and additional student residencies. We will post information on each project as they develop.
UCD is entering an exciting phase of its development and I hope the information contained in this site is useful and gives you a sense of our collective ambition to continue to strive to provide facilities worthy of a leading university.
Eamonn Ceannt
Director of Capital Development
