New Polaris building to open in early 2025

Dublin City University this morning held an open house for staff to preview Polaris, a landmark building that marks the entrance to the DCU Glasnevin campus, one that will provide modern teaching and research facilities for generations of DCU students. 

Health & Human Performance

Polaris is the new home for DCU’s School of Health & Human Performance and will include a High Performance Lab focused on high performance sports research, a Life Lab to help students develop improved health literacy, and a Movement Lab that will use state-of-the-art indoor sport facilities to help the local community access data analytics and visualisation techniques.

Polaris is designed as an immersive eco-system that actively breaks down boundaries, sparking collaboration across subjects and between groups, inside and outside the university. Active learning spaces like the planned Industry Robotics Lab and Immersive Visualisation Suite will help students collaborate with industry and peers from around the world, while on-site STEM outreach programmes will help local students explore STEM options at third level. 

An Immersive Visualisation Suite is one of the key learning spaces in Polaris. Its VR equipment creates a virtual space where students can collaborate on projects with other students across the globe, or learn from industry experts in a virtual environment.

Net Zero

The building covers 10,000 square metres and was constructed at a cost of approx €80 million. It has an A Energy Rating and is designed to be a Net Zero Energy building and it uses heat pump technology and has 300 square metres of PV solar panels on the roof. 

It will be officially opened in the new year.