Site search is on for new €100m UCC Business School

No site selection has yet been made for the new €100m UCC Business School, with locations under consideration and actively being pitched to the university likely to range from being a pivotal docklands ‘catalyst’ to anchoring the proposed Science and Technology Park in Curraheen, as well as more central city sites like Trinity Quarter on South Terrace (see CGI, right).

The hunt is on for a very large Cork site for a new hub to accommodate an expanded Business School and many thousands of UCC students. The college is looking at on- and off-campus possibilities, with the aim of starting construction in 2018/19 and having students accommodated by the 2020/21 academic year. UCC has said it will be one of the country’s largest academic buildings.

The proposed major investment, which was revealed at the Cork University Business School inaugural conference in the Opera House last month, attended by 900 students, aims to build a flagship, world-class school for 4,500 students initially, across UCC’s related business disciplines and departments.