National University of Ireland Galway, Humanities & Social Sciences Research Building

The project consists of a 5,200m2 new extension and refurbishment to the James Hardimann Library (a protected structure) on the NUI Galway campus.  The HSSRB is connected to the James Hardimann Library via 2 link bridges. Internally, the project provides Archive Storage rooms, Archive processing rooms, seminar rooms, archive and special collections reading room, multi-media rooms, exhibition spaces, skills/training rooms, open plan reading/study rooms, digitisation rooms, collision spaces, café, offices and interview rooms