CIT creates €4m plan

WORK has begun on a new €4m stand-alone building at Cork’s CIT campus, continuing the trend of major physical overhaul, as well as forging new industry/education links.

The multi-million euro project, in a 16,500 sq ft building designed by RKD Architects, went on site this month, and construction is due to take 12 months via BAM Contractors, with 70 building jobs.

Dubbed CREATE, the Centre for Research in Advanced Therapeutic Engineering is being funded by the Higher Education Authority’s Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions, and will enhance the CIT’s links with medical device firms, the pharma sector and other key employers in the pharma sector. It’s to be a new regional home of collaborative and interdisciplinary research, for 60 researchers with 35 new research positions, based within CIT, for researchers from biology, chemistry, biomedical engineering and physics.