Introduction

An integral element of the Shannon Development Knowledge Network, the National Technology Park is a Science and Technology Park with a difference. Since its inception in 1984 as Ireland's first science and Technology Park, the National Technology Park has become home to a growing and influential nucleus of high technology and knowledge-based companies. With over 80 organisations employing over 3,000 skilled people, the Park has a balanced mix of multinational subsidiaries, Irish technology companies, R&D entities and support services, which occupy more than 30 buildings with a total floor area of circa 1.5 million sq.ft.

I.C.T., materials and e-business are the dominant sectors at the National Technology Park. At the National Technology Park, you will be in the company of like-minded, entrepreneurial, creative and growing companies.

Location

Managed by Shannon Development in close partnership with the University of Limerick, the National Technology Park is a 650-acre parkland site, which is situated on the N7 (Limerick Dublin Road), just 3 miles from Limerick City (the capital of Ireland's Shannon Region).

Shannon International Airport, which is 19 miles from the Park, offers direct flights to London (with onward connections to destinations throughout the world) and to Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Newark, New York and Los Angeles in the U.S.A. Limerick City has daily rail connections to Dublin and Cork.

Services

The National Technology Park provides a range of Park services including property planning, marketing, linkages to third level colleges, and I.T. services. The Park's management company is responsible for the overall, physical planning and development of the Park. In addition, the Park provides security services, landscaping and general maintenance of the Park's communal areas. The Park engages in a marketing programme, which is designed to promote and maintain the National Technology Park as Ireland's premier location for technology businesses. Through its membership of Science & Technology Park organisations such as A.U.R.R.P., I.A.S.P. and U.K.S.P.A., the Park's management company is constantly benchmarking the Park with developments at overseas parks, so that the Park maintains its world-class, leading-edge position.

The National Technology Park promotes the development of linkages between the Park's client firms and Limerick's third level colleges the University of Limerick and the Limerick Institute of Technology.

As a result of the creation of a number of joint venture between Shannon Development and third parties, broadband connectivity is available to firms operating at the Park.

Business Accommodation

The National Technology Park has been designed to meet the needs of high technology and knowledge-based businesses by providing low-density development in a high quality parkland environment. The Park provides a range of flexible business accommodation options for eligible activities.

Serviced Sites

Fully serviced, industrial sites of 0.5 acres and upwards (in a quality landscaped environment) may be purchased or leased at the Park on which clients may construct facilities for approved usages. All construction work at the Park is subject to the Design Guidelines prepared by the Park's management company.

Innovation Works Limerick

Innovation Works Limerick provides an integrated system for incubating and growing knowledge-based high potential companies. Business accommodation is an element of this system.

Properties Available

A variety of business accommodation options is available at the Park.

To receive details on properties, that are currently available, please contact Shannon Development at the details on the bottom of this page.

International Business Centre

This is an office block development where units of 2,000sq.ft. upwards can be leased.

International Science Centre

The International Science Centre is a custom-built facility with high-quality office accommodation, where a unit of 10,000sq.ft. can be leased. The building's design allow for individual units to be finished-out to clients' specific requirements.

Plassey Enterprise Centre

This facility has stand-alone units, suitable for light manufacturing or computer-based activities and ranging in size from 500sq.ft. to 9,000sq.ft.

Hamilton House

Phase 2 of Hamilton House offers 45,000sq.ft. of flexible office accommodation, that is adaptable to meet the accommodation requirements of individual clients.

Rosse Centre

3 office blocks of 8,000sq.ft. each offering units of flexible sizes to meet specific requirements of individual clients.

Property Brokerage

The Park's Management Company provides a brokerage service with private sector developers by arranging for customised business accommodation to be constructed to individual client specifications.

Telecoms

The National Technology Park is Ireland's first, digitally networked, technology park. Through a joint-venture between Shannon Development and Esat Business, a broadband fibre-optic ring has been installed at the Park, which gives the Park's firms access to a range of integrated broadband services including: business voice, managed bandwidth, broadband L.A.N. interconnect, A.T.M. and frame relay, and Esat Net (e-mail, internet access and web hosting services, I.S.D.N. and dial-up connections).

The availability of this digital network facilitates the Park's firms in exploiting the immense opportunities, which exist to develop and expand their firms by embracing the potentials of e-business. Telecommunications service providers Esat Business, Digifone and WorldCom have facilities at the National Technology Park.

Recently, Shannon Broadband Ltd., a consortium comprising the Shannon Region's local authorities and led by Shannon Development commenced the installation of a broadband network throughout the Region, with the fibre optic cable being initially installed in the Limerick metropolitan area.