Department of Estates and Facilities Since its foundation in 1592, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin has played a pioneering role in the development of Ireland’s intellectual and cultural identity. The commitment to critical scholarship and research established by its earliest scholars has continued across the centuries, and today it is celebrated as the most prestigious university in the island of Ireland. Trinity’s iconic buildings, the oldest of which date back to the turn of the eighteenth century, are visual reminders of the many generations of scholars that have passed through its gates. The College is unique, possessing a historic campus unlike any other. Located on an island of calm in the centre of Dublin, Trinity has developed on the model of an Oxbridge college, but at the scale of a university. This is important, for it provides the intimacy and community of a college combined with the size, breadth and vitality of a university. Trinity has in excess of 313,000 Sq. m. of built accommodation across 8 main sites in Dublin. The largest of these sites is the main College Green Site, and its immediate periphery, which occupy 16.7 hectares of land in the heart of Dublin City, occupying in excess of 234,000 Sq.m. A significant site of 2.2 hectares in the Trinity Technology & Enterprise Centre is largely underdeveloped but a master plan process is currently underway. Trinity also has significant built accommodation in Trinity Hall (4.3 hectares), Santry (13.8 hectares), the Trinity Centre at Saint James’s Hospital, and the Trinity Centre in Tallaght Hospital. Estates & Facilities is the area within the Corporate Services Division which is responsible for the planning and development of the university’s buildings and sites and for the operation and maintenance of the university’s buildings, sites and facilities. With a staff complement of more than 270 across four primary operating departments, (Safety & Safety Risk Management, Estates Policy, Capital Projects and Planning, Facilities & Services and Shared Administrative Support Services), the Estates & Facilities staff maintain the University’s energy supply and utility infrastructure, support and provide a wide-range of engineering and technical services that improve efficiency and sustainability. Estates & Facilities also undertakes the university’s capital development programme. The University is currently engaged in an ambitious capital programme, including the development of the €80m Trinity Business School, new student residences on the Oisín House site, a teaching hub for the E3 (Engineering, Energy & Environment) initiative, and a master plan process at the campus in the Grand Canal Dock to create an Innovation District. The current value of active capital projects is €160m with pipeline capital projects > €300m. The development of an Estates Strategy is well advanced and will inform the next capital development programme and campus master plan. 9
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