Refurbishment of a Georgian building and its annexes together with construction of new three-storey Teaching Block, recital rooms and glazed link foyer. Fire upgrade and renovations were undertaken to the existing structure. The Dagg Hall, a concert hall annex at the rear, was also fully refurbished.

Location  36 Westland Row, Dublin 2
Sector  Heritage/Education
Value  €1.3M
Year Completed  2001
Client  Royal Irish Academy of Music

Architect  Burke Kennedy Doyle
Engineers  Muir Associates
Quantity Surveyors  Seamus Monaghan & Partners

Construction of a standalone creche building on green field site at Liffey Valley for a leading childcare franchise. This was the first of its kind in Ireland. In addition to the class rooms, with ‘en-suite’ baby changing areas, sleep rooms and admin rooms the build also includes car parking, landscaping and an outside play area.

• This creche was built as a working model for the creche franchise and remains one of their busiest branches

Location  Lucan, Co. Dublin
Sector  Education / Commercial
Value  €1.5M
Surface  600 m²
Year Completed  2006
Client  O’Callaghan Properties

Architect  Niall D Brennan & Assoc
Quantity Surveyors  Peter Curtin & Co

Working with the design team from Scott Talon Walker, we were tasked with creating a new extension to the modular administration building at the FAS Training Centre in Finglas.

The project included construction of the two-storey extension as well as upgrading and modernisation of the canteen and kitchen. In addition, some of the training areas in the adjacent training building were altered and renovated to accommodate course syllabus updates. There were also associated works to the canteen loading bay and full landscaping of the grounds affected by the facility upgrade works.

• A new cladding system which we introduced to the new extension, proved highly successful and was subsequently applied to the remainder of the building.

Location  Finglas, Dublin 11
Sector  Education
Value  €3.5M
Surface  800 m²
Year Completed  2007
Client FAS

Architect  Scott Tallon Walker
Engineers  ARUP
Quantity Surveyors  Davis Langdon PKS

St. Louis Senior Primary School, founded by the St. Louis Sisters in 1939 is centrally located in Rathmines and serves the parish of Rathmines and surrounding areas.

In 2008 we undertook to construct a new classroom block and toilets located within inner playground area complete with mechanical and electrical installation. In addition, we upgraded the fire safety and undertook other miscellaneous works in existing school building.

In 2009 further alterations were carried out, with the creation of new staff and girls toilets and new staff kitchen.

Location  Rathmines, Dublin 6
Sector  Education
Value  €1M
Surface  250 m²
Year Completed  2008/09
Client Board of Management, St. Louis School

Architect  Downey MacConville Architects
Quantity Surveyors  Andrew Nugent

Sandford Park, founded in 1922 is a small private co-educational school set in 2.5 hectares of wooded grounds in Dublin 6.

Working with architect Derek Tynan, we undertook the refurbishment of the main school house, a three-storey over basement protected structure.  A traditional residential house to look at, it needed to accommodate computer and resource rooms as well as a locker room in the basement, staff and administrative space on the ground floor and accommodation for the ‘live in’ school Principal and Vice Principle on the first and second floors respectively.

The project required a complete upgrade of fire proofing M&E and IT throughout and the installation of a new lift to improve accessibility to the rear of the building.

Large sections of the roof were stripped and re tiled to accommodate the installation of  new water tanks and the chimney dismantled and rebuilt to resolve water ingress issues.  Other interventions such as lime harling to the gable wall drew on our conservation experience and skill set.

• The clay Griffin ridge finial adorning the roof, an emblem of the school, was carefully removed, boxed up and sent to a UK manufacturer in order to produce (a new) mirror image of the original. Both were returned and carefully replaced in their original positions at the front of the school house to again stand sentry over the house entrance and playing fields.

Location  Ranelagh, Dublin 6
Sector  Education
Value  €2.5M
Surface  300 m²
Year Completed  2009
Client Sandford Park School

Architect  Derek Tynan Architects
Quantity Surveyors  DL Martin & Partners