Waterford institute gets €20m investment

WATERFORD’S reputation as a hub of enterprise and education has received a €20 million boost.

Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) chairman Redmond O’Donoghue and its director, Professor Kieran R Byrne, received news at the weekend that the Government is to invest €20 million in a tourism and leisure building at the Institute’s Cork Road campus.

The high-profile building of 7,700 sq m (82,882 sq ft) will occupy a site at the Cork end of the campus and provide an architectural counterpoint to the landmark ETS Walton Information and Communications Technology building; the Luke Wadding Library and the health sciences building at the city end.