Physical and Digital Campuses 

Our campuses in Belfield, Blackrock and Lyons Farm, and our global campuses, are great assets to UCD and the communities that we serve.

We will continue to enhance them so that they are exemplars for best practice in how universities use their spaces.

Over the course of the strategy, we will develop a new plan for our physical campuses that maximises the use of existing spaces to meet the needs of the university while facilitating new developments, including consideration of our partnerships with existing and new external stakeholders.

Our digital campus is an essential resource underpinning the experience of all in UCD, and the demands on this will change further through actions in this strategy. We will offer an enterprise architecture that empowers us to deliver on our ambitions in learning, research, engagement and service delivery.

UCD will be a thought and action leader of transformational change for sustainability, and this will be as evident on our campuses as it is in our education and our research and innovation.

As a visible leader in sustainability, UCD will be a net zero organisation by 2040, contributing to conserving and restoring biodiversity, and working to reduce the impacts of climate change for ourselves and others. 

We will:

• successfully complete major capital developments in the Centre for Future Learning, Science Phase 3, student residences, sports and leisure amenities, Lyons Farm, the James Joyce Library, and the Newman Building, together delivering state-of-the-art space for learning, research and the student experience.

• enhance our overseas campuses so that they reflect the experience in Ireland.

• develop an integrated campus plan to 2040 that incorporates its natural, built and digital aspects.

• develop our outstanding physical campuses in a manner that sets new standards and enhances the experience of all in our community, delivering and activating new builds, and renewing existing stock. 

• set and implement a clear enterprise architecture roadmap to ensure that our digital technologies support our ambitions in learning, research and innovation, and services.

• cultivate our campuses as exemplars of, and laboratories for, sustainability, biodiversity and regeneration, advancing our education and research in doing so.

• develop and implement an action plan to reduce our carbon emissions by 51% from baseline by 2030, and place us on a path to net zero carbon by 2040.