New Learning Resource Centre to open at MTU’s Bishopstown Campus

A new Learning Resource Centre at Munster Technological University (MTU) is being built to provide teaching and learning spaces for 1,000 students and 70 staff, and will expand the university’s portfolio of programmes and services.

The building is due for completion in summer 2025.

The project is part of the Department of Higher and Further Education, Research, Innovation and Science’s Higher Education Public Private Partnership programme, which also includes the development of a new STEM building on MTU’s Kerry North Campus in Tralee.

The 6,660m2 Learning Resource Centre (LRC), topped out this week, will expand MTU’s portfolio of programmes and services and provide enhanced options for student support, industry engagement, entrepreneurship, and research and innovation.

It will also provide new options for hosting events and conferences and its central location on the Bishopstown campus ensures that it will be fully integrated with existing facilities and services.

“This ceremony of the topping out of the new Learning Resource Centre marks an exciting step forward for MTU. When it opens next year, the LRC will be a state-of-the-art building dedicated to improving our students’ university experience. This new space will provide students and staff with new learning and teaching facilities and additional room to study and socialise,” said MTU President Professor Maggie Cusack.

“As we expand, we remain committed to sustainability and responsible growth, so we’ve ensured this building has been designed to be NZEB (Nearly Zero Energy Building) to help us reach our climate action targets,” she added.