NUIG Renovations 2010 Photos

TheCosmicFrog

Hi guys,

I've been taking pictures of the NUIG summer renovations pretty much since they started digging outside the Concourse. I've been putting them up on Facebook, but they're private, so now I'm going to share them here. Enjoy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41618751@N06/sets/72157624737833393

WesternNight

TheCosmicFrog wrote: »

Hi guys,

I've been taking pictures of the NUIG summer renovations pretty much since they started digging outside the Concourse. I've been putting them up on Facebook, but they're private, so now I'm going to share them here. Enjoy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41618751@N06/sets/72157624737833393

They're going to be working on things until the end of 2011?? Oh man

KittyeeTrix

WesternNight wrote: »

They're going to be working on things until the end of 2011?? Oh man

I thought that it was just the new Engineering building!! God I hope it's not the Bialann:(

Looks a lot nicer than the old dark hole it was tho':)

WesternNight

fluffyorganic1 wrote: »

I thought that it was just the new Engineering building!! God I hope it's not the Bialann:(

Looks a lot nicer than the old dark hole it was tho':)

Ahhh...the NEW Arts, Humanities and Social Science Research building...thought it was the existing building they were doing up. D'you know what, I've no idea where that even is, so I'll shut up

RolandIRL

fluffyorganic1 wrote: »

I thought that it was just the new Engineering building!! God I hope it's not the Bialann:(

Looks a lot nicer than the old dark hole it was tho':)

they're doing up the bialann as well. no longer will you have to go outside from the concourse to get down to the bialann. they're extending the doors out a bit.

TheCosmicFrog

WesternNight wrote: »

Ahhh...the NEW Arts, Humanities and Social Science Research building...thought it was the existing building they were doing up. D'you know what, I've no idea where that even is, so I'll shut up

It's going up on the green area opposite the Arts Millennium Building, beside the library. Look at the photo and notice the brown library building behind the new Arts building.

yermanoffthetv

Hmm very swish. Arts research bloc is news to me!

Ficheall

It's horrific. Perhaps not the building itself, but sweet christ - we need some green area. The Research building took me completely by surprise the last day at the back of Corrib village. Then there's the massive engineering building. And that huge thing beside Cairne's? Is that the courthouse there were rumours of?
And getting rid of the green area between Aras de Brun and the Arts Millenium...
Ffs - it'll be the President's Lawn and the Cricket Pitch next.

yermanoffthetv

Ficheall wrote: »

It's horrific. Perhaps not the building itself, but sweet christ - we need some green area. The Research building took me completely by surprise the last day at the back of Corrib village. Then there's the massive engineering building. And that huge thing beside Cairne's? Is that the courthouse there were rumours of?
And getting rid of the green area between Aras de Brun and the Arts Millenium...
Ffs - it'll be the President's Lawn and the Cricket Pitch next.

I do agree the loss of the green area beside the arts millenium was a big mistake Thing is the college has an extremely limited amount of campus land left. What Id like to see is Corrib village knocked and something like the Glenomena apts in UCD built up by the carpark and the remaining land used for further expansion. Sigh...thatll never hapen tho :rolleyes:

QueenOfLeon

No way That open area was lovely even just to look in across campus from the road outside. Whats the new building for? If they're building research buildings to they have to be right on campus?

Ficheall

Agreed - nuking Corrib village mightn't be a bad idea.

The college has pucks of land - but no money. Hmm.

Look at the MRI-annexe - the whole road blocked up for months and months, and they finished up with something that just looks like a crappy box from the outside. Likewise the Nurses' Library - a year of work. There was hardly any point in leaving that pissy wee patch of green around it. And then the brains that designed it went and put those ladders (effectively) all the way to the roof. Sometimes one wonders at the people in charge...

yermanoffthetv

QueenOfLeon wrote: »

If they're building research buildings to they have to be right on campus?

Thats were the students and staff are! :P

I dont think therell be much development after these projects are completed tho. Money from the AP has dryed up an government are skint so lego land is safe for the moment it seems.

challengemaster

I'd love to see proper parking that we didn't have to pay for.

QueenOfLeon

Its all looking good now, bialann is ready and the entrance to it from concourse is more or less done. Still to be construction stuff up for a while though. The top of the bialann should be clear fairly soon aswel. The construction work is moving over to beside the arts millenium, they're cutting down the trees at the mo Apparently theres something to be built on to the library?

Ficheall

Dunno if it's "more or less done" - Phase 2 is due to be completed Sept 2011. I don't know what that is though.. Aye, they're building another annexe to the library on the Arts Millenium lawn.
I'm thinking of protesting against them building on the Cricket Pitch/President's Lawn.

QueenOfLeon

Is that by the quad? I loved what the grassy spaces added to the whole feel of the college, especially the bit beside the arts millenium, and the bit behind the IT building beside the river. They better not touch that

Ficheall

QueenOfLeon wrote: »

They better not touch that

Given that there's radioactive waste stored there, it'll probably be the last thing to be built over...

TheCosmicFrog

There was people eating in the Bialann yesterday. Admittedly they were staff, but there were chocolate bars and all in the stands.

Also, pictures updated.

ru437z9t8fidq2

just wondering whats this room?...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41618751@N06/4951140028/in/set-72157624737833393/

WesternNight

Zechariah Scruffy Snowmobile wrote: »

just wondering whats this room?...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41618751@N06/4951140028/in/set-72157624737833393/

Part of the canteen, I'd imagine?

challengemaster

That's what the new bialann looks like (part of it, anyway)

TheCosmicFrog

Zechariah Scruffy Snowmobile wrote: »

just wondering whats this room?...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41618751@N06/4951140028/in/set-72157624737833393/

That's me, standing outside the SU Shop looking in at The Bialann.

QueenOfLeon

Is it just me, or do some bits of the bialann remind anyone of some of the older Big Brother houses? I know, for shame :pac:

Doctor_Socks

Do you have any photos of the new engineering building by any chance? Would love to see how its coming along and when the proposed completion date is

TheCosmicFrog

Doctor_Socks wrote: »

Do you have any photos of the new engineering building by any chance? Would love to see how its coming along and when the proposed completion date is

Just this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41618751@N06/4952772884/in/set-72157624737833393/

I'll try and get more from the Aras Moyola entrance next time I'm there. It looks most impressive from there.

And Jim Browne said "next spring" at the AICS Conference. Which is a little ambiguous. Presumably by "next" he means "spring 2011".

theintern

TheCosmicFrog wrote: »

Just this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41618751@N06/4952772884/in/set-72157624737833393/

I'll try and get more from the Aras Moyola entrance next time I'm there. It looks most impressive from there.

And Jim Browne said "next spring" at the AICS Conference. Which is a little ambiguous. Presumably by "next" he means "spring 2011".

Damn well better be, it was supposed to be open 2010...

QueenOfLeon

I heard last weekend it was due to be open the end of the year...dunno if they meant the end of the 2010 year or the college year though!

TheCosmicFrog

Doctor_Socks wrote: »

Do you have any photos of the new engineering building by any chance? Would love to see how its coming along and when the proposed completion date is

Uploaded some photos of the new engineering building. Lovely sunny morning too. Enjoy!

english4490

Anyone know whats there are doing outside the concourse at the bank of ireland end??

theintern

TheCosmicFrog wrote: »

Uploaded some photos of the new engineering building. Lovely sunny morning too. Enjoy!

Eng building is looking at an April or May 2011 opening at the moment.

39steps

- Engineering building is due to take in students in September 2011.
- AHSS (Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences Building) is being built on site between Library, Block C (Aras de Brun) and Arts Millennium BUilding. The "Twin Spires" sculpture has been temporarily relocated to the rear of the Quad. on the President's Lawn.
- Bank of Ireland is getting an extension at the junction of Distillery Road.
- Biomedical Research Building is up to the third floor beside the river between Corrib Village and the Park and Ride facility.

HotDogger

So is this why Ng*z is gettin they cash took for picking up their student cards "late?"

Can't wait to graduate from this place. Looks like kindergarten for martians.

The poo brown of the arts concourse era construction has grown on me over the years, but with all this new sh*te, I'm thinking they should have quit building when they finished the quadrangle.

Whatsit? Arts n social science research?! Can't they just send those sorry feckers down to Eyre Square with a pad and pen?

Should just detonate what they've done, and rebuild the whole university underground with some grass laid down over top. Future kiddos would be spared all of these architectural disasters.

QueenOfLeon

39steps wrote: »

- Engineering building is due to take in students in September 2011.
- AHSS (Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences Building) is being built on site between Library, Block C (Aras de Brun) and Arts Millennium BUilding. The "Twin Spires" sculpture has been temporarily relocated to the rear of the Quad. on the President's Lawn.
- Bank of Ireland is getting an extension at the junction of Distillery Road.
- Biomedical Research Building is up to the third floor beside the river between Corrib Village and the Park and Ride facility.

Whats that for?

TheCosmicFrog

HotDogger wrote: »

So is this why Ng*z is gettin they cash took for picking up their student cards "late?"

Can't wait to graduate from this place. Looks like kindergarten for martians.

The poo brown of the arts concourse era construction has grown on me over the years, but with all this new sh*te, I'm thinking they should have quit building when they finished the quadrangle.

Whatsit? Arts n social science research?! Can't they just send those sorry feckers down to Eyre Square with a pad and pen?

Should just detonate what they've done, and rebuild the whole university underground with some grass laid down over top. Future kiddos would be spared all of these architectural disasters.

None of that post made sense. Perhaps explain your points?

WesternNight

HotDogger wrote: »

Whatsit? Arts n social science research?! Can't they just send those sorry feckers down to Eyre Square with a pad and pen?

Ah, it's lovely being called a "sorry fecker" so it is :rolleyes:

QueenOfLeon

I think the newer buildings look quite nice, the library and concourse seem so run down compared to the AM building, never mind places like Aras de Brun! It gives the campus a more professional look imo and a lot of students are quite proud of the new architecture that keeps us up there with other campuses. And if the engineering building looks as good as it does in the picture thing beside it, it'll definitely add to the campus!

HotDogger

HotDogger wrote: »

So is this why Ng*z is gettin they cash took for picking up their student cards "late?"

They're always coming up with suspect fees and fines to raise cash. Then they use it to build stupid buildings and buy fuggin 'clickers.' They should probably start fining lecturers who don't use blackboard.

Can't wait to graduate from this place. Looks like kindergarten for martians.

The poo brown of the arts concourse era construction has grown on me over the years, but with all this new sh*te, I'm thinking they should have quit building when they finished the quadrangle.

Not fond of the architecture - both past and present (althought the brown part doesn't bother me as much as it used to).

Whatsit? Arts n social science research?! Can't they just send those sorry feckers down to Eyre Square with a pad and pen?

Everybody knows these degrees exist at universities everywhere just to get tuition fees from students who don't like doing hard stuff. If you want to study bums, just go for a walk around town and then run your 'data' through a stats program. What's the giant building for? What are you going to do with your social science degree, make a new FAS?

Should just detonate what they've done, and rebuild the whole university underground with some grass laid down over top. Future kiddos would be spared all of these architectural disasters.

As mentioned before, I'm not fond of the architecture. Walking around campus is a bit like going on a safari where you can see classic examples of bad design from various eras - like going for a walk over in salthill.

If they levelled the place and made all new construction subterranean, the campus could be a big green park. Everyone likes a park.

Don't get me wrong, though, I appreciate you posting photos and everything - I looked at them all. I don't mind if you have a different opinion of the uni's vision for the future.

Ficheall

QueenOfLeon wrote: »

Whats that for?

It's a piece of crap sculpture which the college put in so that they'd get a grant during construction for including a piece of "art".

QueenOfLeon wrote: »

I think the newer buildings look quite nice, the library and concourse seem so run down compared to the AM building, never mind places like Aras de Brun! It gives the campus a more professional look imo and a lot of students are quite proud of the new architecture that keeps us up there with other campuses. And if the engineering building looks as good as it does in the picture thing beside it, it'll definitely add to the campus!

The library and concourse are run down - but they can't be touched because they're protected. Except for that nonsense refurbishing they did in the library a year or two ago. Building better looking buildings so that it's harder to see the older crappier looking buildings is hardly an optimal solution.
Why should the campus look professional? It's an institute of learning and research - where people are supposed to be able to relax and think.
You're the first person I've heard of that was "proud" of our new architecture. Everyone else has agreed that it's pretty **** that they're taking away all our green areas by spending money they claim they don't have. No one has been terribly impressed with the "new" canteen, or the filling-in of the "Goldfish Bowl". And whether the roof from the canteen to the concourse is to stop the students getting wet as they go from one to the other, or is another step towards making the campus non-smoking - it's a waste of time.
How will the engineering building add to the campus? Really? I can understand if there's a huge demand for space because there's pucks of people wanting to be engineers so that they can sign on the dole when they graduate - that may be the case. But how is yet another multi-story building going to look better than having an open space? (Granted, the engineering building is replacing a car-park, but you can be damn sure that carpark will go elsewhere - and it'll probably be bigger. They've already tarmacced over a football pitch or two on the way to Dangan for the park 'n ride.

HotDogger wrote: »

Everybody knows these degrees exist at universities everywhere just to get tuition fees from students who don't like doing hard stuff. If you want to study bums, just go for a walk around town and then run your 'data' through a stats program. What's the giant building for? What are you going to do with your social science degree, make a new FAS?

I dunno if I'd be quite as disparaging about the mentioned degrees, but you're right - they certainly don't need a research building.
But then, I suppose, who needs fields and green areas?

HotDogger

Ficheall wrote: »

But then, I suppose, who needs fields and green areas?

My first impression was that you were a bit of a miserable fecker, but this last part was actually really nice.

Ficheall

I am a miserable fecker.
I blame the lack of grass.

Ficheall

http://www.nuigalway.ie/campusofthefuture/documents/nuigalway_campusofthefuture.pdf

Fecking feckers.

A ****ing hairdresser's - for Christ's sake...

oneofakind32

Ficheall wrote: »

Given that there's radioactive waste stored there, it'll probably be the last thing to be built over...

The radioactive waste from the physics department is stored in a green bunker at the back of the It building. Is there older waste buried under presidents lawn?

Predalien

Is it just me or are there now less seats in the canteen? It was near impossible to find a seat at lunchtime today. Considering there are more students than ever in the college now it's really disappointing that the renovations haven't in any real way improved facilities for students. Also, does anyone know how much all of it cost?

Pinturicchio

The campus is a shambles at the moment. Why wasn't more of this work done during the summer?

HotDogger

Pinturicchio wrote: »

The campus is a shambles at the moment. Why wasn't more of this work done during the summer?

The summer?! Haw! It's Galway, boy, can't get ****e done any time of the year.

At the end of the day, the campus is what it is meant to be: some 3rd rate Logan's Run film set. They can tear up all the green ****e for all I care because I'm audi 5 in no time t'all. Who cares about seating for the american eagle/uggs-ed student swamp.

I'd be happy if construction was halted as is, and the place left with its arse hanging out - as long as they'd make sure that all of the lecturers are put up in proper offices. Nothing worse than disgruntled profs delivering your course in mumbles n' crayon. And maybe they could finally fix up the goddam maths building. It's like fuggin Africa in there.

challengemaster

Looks like they've put in a new swimming pool instead of that arts research building :pac:

Also, happened to spot an "electric vehicle charge point" space outside the quad today....never noticed that before!

brianthebard

Predalien wrote: »

Is it just me or are there now less seats in the canteen? It was near impossible to find a seat at lunchtime today. Considering there are more students than ever in the college now it's really disappointing that the renovations haven't in any real way improved facilities for students. Also, does anyone know how much all of it cost?

I think there's more seats since the smoking area was incorporated into the canteen, its jsut that every year unis take in more and more first years. Once the first essay titles are set things will quieten down. Bike racks are packed too, pretty impossible to get parked after 10 I'd say (lol that sounds like I've been on campus before 10 :pac: ).

brianthebard

challengemaster wrote: »

Looks like they've put in a new swimming pool instead of that arts research building :pac:

Also, happened to spot an "electric vehicle charge point" space outside the quad today....never noticed that before!

Would that be for the maintenance guys vans?

challengemaster

brianthebard wrote: »

Would that be for the maintenance guys vans?

No, it seems to be for the new electrically powered cars.... interesting really, hadn't seen one before.

the-island-man

challengemaster wrote: »

No, it seems to be for the new electrically powered cars.... interesting really, hadn't seen one before.

Yes that is for all electric cars even ones owned by people outside the college, there was a function at the start of the summer which was attended by Eamonn Ryan which was about renewable energy projects in the college, they launched that charge point as an extra thing to the function. This link gives the information:
http://www.galway-greens.com/2010/06/29/o-brolchain-welcomes-first-electric-car-charge-point-at-nui-galway/

Pity the new nissan leaf labelled the first affordable electric car is only affordable if your a member of the upper class!

TheCosmicFrog

challengemaster wrote: »

Looks like they've put in a new swimming pool instead of that arts research building :pac:

Walked past it today and said, "Looks like we're getting our 50m swimming pool after all".