Dublin Bus is planning to convert three buildings at the site of its Broadstone bus depot into offices and a training centre.
Last week, the bus operator submitted a planning application to Dublin City Council seeking permission for the development.
The plan will see it convert the furniture stores and unit stores building into one “office accommodation”. It will also convert the training centre there to accommodate more training facilities.
It also hopes to provide new parking spaces for 26 cars, 56 bikes and four motorbikes.
In March 2021, Dublin Bus opened a new €15m depot at Broadstone. The depot, which is one of eight, has the capacity for 120 buses and 300 employees, according to a report on RTÉ.
The Broadstone depot dates back to 1850. A number of original features have been retained, such as its cast-iron structure and the old overhead gantry cranes.
A spokesman for Dublin Bus told Ergo it had “sought planning permission from Dublin City Council for a development which will consist of converting three adjacent existing buildings within our overall Broadstone site to offices and a training centre facility.
“The development will also consist of internal conversion to the training centre building to provide additional meeting room and office accommodation.”
Cork-based smart charging company Ohme is to become official charging partner for Volkswagen Group Ireland. Corkman Dave Watson, a Cambridge-educated scientist who is a former hedge-fund risk manager, founded Ohme as a side-project to his climate change-focused investment management firm Temporis in 2017 but has built it into one of the leading smart charging platforms in Ireland and the UK.
The deal will see all six Volkswagen Group Ireland brands recommend Ohme chargers for all of their electrified vehicle sales.
Galway-headquartered Western Automation Research and Development was acquired by Nasdaq-listed tech firm Littelfuse – in a deal worth $162m (€153m).
News of the deal was reported by the Sunday Independent earlier this month, with the announcement failing to disclose a value.
However, Ergo has spotted the value in Litterlfuse’s recently published annual results.
Western Automation designs and manufactures electrical shock protection devices used across markets, including e-Mobility. The firm had annual sales of around $25m.