Architectural and related services

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Maynooth University New Student Centre. Maynooth University seeks to have the best ‘Students’ Centre in Ireland' — a world class students' centre — distinctive and original. The Student Centre should reflect ‘The Maynooth Experience’ — welcoming, friendly, vibrant and inclusive. It must have the highest design quality, environmental sustainability and procurement approach; creating a contemporary, innovative and exciting student environment. Our vision is to provide students with a home for renewal, participation, and performance. As a home it is an easily found destination that welcomes students and brings to them a sense of belonging, ownership and shelter where a variety of activities happen day and night. It is thus a place to meet friends and new acquaintances and get re-charged during the course of daily student life. It is a place of inventive student-initiated experimentation where users experience flexible and innovative spaces with a hybrid of activities changing hourly, daily or monthly. As Ireland's only University town, the Student Centre will mirror the thriving bustle of Maynooth. The new Students' Centre will be the landmark building on the North Campus. Our purpose is to provide students with a home from home, a community space that welcomes and encourages participation, gathering and belonging and provides services and supports in response to the ongoing needs of the growing student body. The centre must proudly celebrate a sense of student ownership, the place on campus that students actively identify as their own. As the representative body for students, Maynooth Students' Union representation, facilities and services will be the prominent aspect of the student centre — which includes Clubs and Societies, performance and social spaces. The centre will seamlessly blend these with front facing services which focus on student care and well-being. The centre will enable the highest standards of service delivery through best in class facility provision.