Deep Retrofit of the Enterprise Centre, North Mall Campus under the Energy Efficient and Decarbonisation Pathfinder Programme

UCC has carried out a deep retrofit of the 2,915m² Enterprise Centre building under the HEA’s EEDPP (Energy Efficient and Decarbonisation Pathfinder Program).

The Enterprise Building, constructed in 1980, was originally used by the IDA as an enterprise / industrial centre for small to medium size enterprises. Located at the Distillery Fields, North Mall, the building was purchased by UCC in 1998 and was initially used as a teaching school for nursing. Since 2004, it has been home to the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) and Applied Psychology. The building was extended in 2018 with the inclusion of some new offices and a staff canteen.

The 2-storey building accommodates small to medium sized classrooms, teaching and post graduate labs, single and multi-occupancy offices as well as a cafeteria.

The Retrofit Pathway selected for this building was ‘Deep Retrofit with Geothermal Water Source Heat Pump with Borehole’.  The project was presented to the HEA and SEAI and was successful in receiving funding under the pathfinder project from the HEA.

The project encompasses energy efficient design and a low carbon building materials specification.