the new engineering building

The New Engineering Build (NEB) is located on the banks of the River Corrib, within the NUI Galway Northern Campus. Inaugurated in 2011, the building was conceived as a “living laboratory”. Facilities and structural features are exposed, enabling students to undertake active learning outside their classes. Live data is streamed from a variety of sensors which monitor the energy consumption of the building throughout the day, and openly accessible to students.
Similarly, to serve as an additional demonstration platform for students, a variety of HVAC systems condition different sections of the building: a combined heat and power plant, a biomass boiler, two identical staged gas boilers, an air-cooled chiller, hundreds of natural ventilated zones with automated window controls, a double skin façade/climate wall system, and various air handling units (e.g. with an air economiser, thermal wheel, runaround coils, etc.).
The NEB obtained the Public Choice RIAI Irish Architecture Awards 2012 and is receiving increasing interest from the research community for its potential as a building demonstrator.

Facts and Figures

Budget: €40 million
Floor area: 14,250 m²
Number of floors: 4
Number of rooms: 400
Building capacity: 1,100 engineering students + 110 staff
Natural gas fired CHP: 500 kW thermal / 350 kW electrical power
Wood pellet biomass boiler: 950kW
Natural gas condensing boilers: 2 units / 1146 kW power each

A wide range of other green features can be accessed here: http://www.nuigalway.ie/new-engineering-building/

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