BAM starts construction on Microsoft’s new €134m Campus
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By The Editor on October 21, 2015 In the News
Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, Eric Boustouller, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Western Europe, and Cathriona Hallahan, Managing Director at Microsoft Ireland, marked the start of construction of Microsoft’s new state of the art campus facility. The ground-breaking ceremony took place in South County Business Park, Leopardstown.
The new campus, which is being built by BAM Contractors, will widely deploy the latest Microsoft technology. Delivering intelligent Cloud platforms is central to the company’s support of businesses of all sizes and across all sectors, and the new campus will see Microsoft utilise the latest Cloud technologies across its operations.
Construction of the innovative campus building will take place over 92 weeks and the project will support up to 2,100 jobs locally and regionally over that period. The development, which will accommodate up the 2,300 staff at full capacity, comprises 35,000m2 office accommodation over five floors and almost 14,000m2 basement over two floors – the equivalent of nearly seven football pitches of internal space.
“We are delighted to be awarded this large campus style project for Microsoft. This project is Microsoft’s largest construction project for years to come and their first major owned asset within their global portfolio. BAM Ireland has completed some of the largest construction projects ever undertaken in the Irish market, for both public and private clients. This project, which will deliver a new flexible and agile facility for Microsoft in 2017, will also showcase to a worldwide audience the talent and capabilities that we in Ireland have to offer,” said Theo Cullinane, BAM Ireland CEO.