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The Leixlip Campus
With a population of employee’s equivalent to a small town, the Intel Ireland campus in Leixlip is home to a vibrant and dynamic mixture of activities and a diverse collection of people.
The core activity at the Leixlip campus is advanced manufacturing and our factories operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week with maximum efficiency and quality to produce fast, smart, and more energy-efficient computer chips.
The campus incorporates a series of advanced facilities, utilities and supporting infrastructure that combine together to enable production of some of the most complex technology in the world.
Traffic Management
We work closely together with our surrounding community to ensure that any impacts are kept to the minimum possible. We continually monitor traffic and work to alleviate traffic levels in and around our site in a number of different ways:
- For a number of years, we have had a dedicated traffic management team on site with the purpose of monitoring traffic and making changes to the traffic management system on site as necessary
- We regularly engage with Kildare County Council, Local District Councilors and our Community Advisory Panel who provide feedback and input on a broad range of topics, including traffic management.
- We have a Mobility Management Program in place at our campus. As part of this program, we have implemented a number of successful measures to encourage single occupancy car trips to the site and decrease the overall number of cars arriving to the Leixlip site. Further details about this program are shared on this page.
- We have a number of security personnel and traffic marshals onsite to managing incoming and outgoing traffic.
We also carry out regular independent studies on traffic levels in the north Kildare region. Through these studies, we have noted that there is a significant increase in overall traffic levels in this region (20% since 2016). As a result of this, our traffic management team has implemented a number of additional measures on our site to alleviate any impact we may have which include, increased personnel on the ground directing traffic around the site and into free carpark spaces, staggered delivery times for larger vehicles and increased security staff and equipment in order to reduce waiting times at security barriers.
Parking Facilities
The Leixlip campus has a number of different parking facilities available for employees working at our campus on a permanent basis. These include multi-storey parking facilities, which provide a significant number of car parking spaces in an optimized manner, as well as a number of outdoor parking areas that accommodate multiple parking bays. These parking areas incorporate several prioritised spaces that are available for employees who participate in carpooling activities as well as spaces that facilitate electric vehicle charge points. All employees who use these parking facilities must have first registered their vehicle and a regular patrol system is in place to ensure that the parking areas are only occupied by registered vehicles.
During times of construction activity at our campus the number of people working on-site may increase and in turn may require the availability of additional parking facilities. The existing parking areas can accommodate a small increase in addition to the regular users but for any sizeable activity the parking facilities will typically be facilitated offsite. For any parking facilities located offsite, these are operated in a ‘park and ride’ manner with regular bus shuttles running between the offsite location and the Intel campus. Car pooling of those using the park and ride facilities is strongly encouraged and very well utilised. In order to minimise any potential impact to local parking areas during times of activity at the Leixlip campus, we put in place a number of additional parking marshals who monitor key areas at regular intervals during the day. If any parking issues are noted, such as incidences of people who are working at the Intel campus and parking in nearby local areas, follow up measures are taken, and necessary actions are put in place to ensure that they use the parking facilities available to them at alternate locations. We continuously monitor the parking situation closely and put in place additional measures that may be required to ensure that local parking facilities are not being used inappropriately.
Diverse mobility options on campus
Intel provides a shuttle bus, (free of charge), to transport employees from Celbridge to Leixlip. The routes serve the following locations: Celbridge, Louisa Bridge Train Station, Hazelhatch, and Glen Easton (morning only).
There are 48 Electric Vehicle (EV) charging points located across each of the car parking facilities at our Leixlip campus. This was first introduced with free or nominal costs which enabled the uptake of employee EVs.
Designated parking areas have been set up in the car park facility to cater for expectant mothers and those with additional needs.
Construction Activity at the Leixlip Campus
Fab 34 was officially opened on Friday, September 29th 2023, marking a key milestone in the construction project which first got underway at the beginning of 2019. The fab is now officially opened and production of Intel 4 technology has begun in Module 1 of the building. Module 2 has now also moved into a factory operations-ready phase and the first tools in this part of the building will be construction complete in January 2024. Much of the base-building activity is now moving into the close-out phase of the project with some commissioning activities continuing throughout 2024. The base build phase of the project is expected to be completed in 2024.
Much of the work that is happening at the site now is focused on the completion of the project, such as landscaping, continuing tool installation activity which happens inside of the factory buildings, and on some equipment and utility commissioning which is ongoing. The completion phase of the project will also focus on site entrances and boundaries, including the installation of a screen wall at the north-western edge of the Fab 34 area.
The number of people working at the construction site has reduced substantially from the peak of the project, but there are still more than 2,000 tradespeople working on the Fab 34 project.
Fab 34 has been the largest construction project to ever be undertaken in Ireland and it is with enormous pride on behalf of all involved that this latest milestone was delivered.
Fab 34 Official Opening – By the numbers
Work on Fab 34 began in 2019. The factory, which represents an investment of 17 billion euros ($18.5B USD), doubles Intel manufacturing space in Ireland and is the company’s first high-volume manufacturing location for the production of Intel 4 products.
New Multi Storey Car Park at the Intel Leixlip Campus
•In July 2019, some existing ground level parking bays at the Intel campus in Leixlip were closed to prepare for future parking needs on the site. Using eco friendly low Carbon cement, thousands of precast units were pieced together to form a new 5 story car park. The parking facility has capacity for 2,200 cars and ample electric car charging stations on each level. Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag (GGBS), which is a recycled material, is used in the mix design of the concrete in order to increase the recycled content of the concrete and reduce the environmental impact of a structure or precast element.
•Construction of the car park was completed in just over a year and on August 17th 2020 the facility was officially opened by Intel Ireland General Manager Eamonn Sinnott and Intel Ireland Director of Construction, Niall Dillon.