87 DWELLINGS, ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL WORKS AND SITE DEVELOPMENT

Country: Ireland

87 Dwellings, Associated External Works and Site Development

The works involve construction of 87 dwellings, new public highway with footpaths, parking areas, private and public landscaping.

The northern half of the site is laid out with seven three storey U-shaped buildings, each comprising nine apartments. These are arranged around private, south-facing courtyards facing the new internal road. The three-storey scale is appropriate to Santry Avenue and also relates to the Phase 3 and to the Phase 1 apartments by Gilroy McMahon Architects. Parking is provided for the apartments in landscaped areas to the side of each building. Terraces of two storey houses with rear gardens are lined the southern half of the site and backed onto the existing Coultry houses. Each terrace is also arranged in a U-shape corresponding to the apartment building opposite. This plan enhances the scale of the long estate road positioned over the services. All apartments have ‘own door’ access and generous south or west facing terraces the large ground floor apartments have private gardens.

73 Dwellings, Community Centre, Gaa Field & Infrastructure Works

GAMA performed construction of 73 dwellings, community centre including all external site works, GAA field and site improvement & infrastructure improvement works.

Fortlawn / Sheepmore Estate have, undergone an extensive and very successful refurbishment scheme. Works requested by residents under the Estate Improvement Programme such as the closure of laneways, incorporation of areas of anti-social behavior into gardens, boundary treatment of Fortlawn and Sheepmore, traffic calming and landscaping are being carried out through the Refurbishment Programme.

Balcurris Phase I & Phase III – 90 Units Housing

GAMA performed turnkey supply and construction of 90 houses and apartments with all kinds of infrastructures including roads and drainage systems.

The project consists of houses and apartments with two and three floors and two parks with playground areas and football field 7,555 m2 closed building area, 29,000 m2 park area, 28,500 m2 outdoor area.

Corduff 220 KV Station for ESB National Grid

Civil and infrastructural works for 220 KVA substation are implemented in Corduff, Blanchardstown.

This is the Ireland’s largest substation transmitting power in the greater Dublin area, at the time, and providing a platform for industrial growth and domestic development.

Over a 14 month period, it is constructed and commissioned over 20 bays of double 220 kV and 110 kV busbars; 110 kV and 220 kV line bays; 110 kV and 220 kV bus coupler bays; 110 kV and 220 kV sectionalizing bays and associated transformer bays. The station has a numerical substation control system (SCS). It has a distributed control and protection scheme and protection schemes on both the 220 kV and 110 kV busbars.

100 MW Lough-Ree Peat Fired Power Plant – Site Development, Civil Works & Mechanical Works

Ground improvement, infrastructure works and buildings construction of 100 MW peat powered power plant.

Project consists of all earthworks, underground piping services, concrete construction of all buildings on site. There are app. 10 main buildings construction and foundations for tanks, conveyors, ponds pump stations, Transformers etc. 10,500 m2 building footprint, 71,000 m2 site construction area, 230,000 m3 building volume, 56,000 m2 access roads. Two mechanical contracts signed, boiler erection and balance of plant respectively. Project consist of 3,500 t of lifting and 8,800 numbers of butt weld and 11,000 m seal welding for the boiler and 200 t of piping, 80 t of support erection, 70 Valves and equipment for the balance of plant contract which contains 13,000 numbers of butt weld. 3,800 m2 main building area, 57 m height.

Ballymun 74 Unit Dwellings & Associated Site Works – Balcurris Phase III

The project consists of the construction of 74 dwellings comprising 20 no. 2 bedroom duplex, 5 no 3-bedroom duplex, 17 no. 2-bedroom apartments and 32 no. 3-bedroom houses in 2 storey houses and 3 and 4 storey apartments together with all related ancillary and site development works.

The development at Balcurris 2 represents a further step in the realization of the master plan for the re-construction of Ballymun. The scheme includes 74 new dwellings which are provided in various forms from conventional two-storey terraced houses, to duplex units and ‘own-door’ apartments. A strong streetscape is achieved onto Balbutcherlane using three and four storey forms, with the scale reducing to two storey dwellings to link in with the adjacent Sandyhill Gardens housing estate to the south. All dwellings have sunny aspect terraces or private rear gardens and their own front door.

150 MW West Offaly Peat Fired Power Plant- Site Development, Foundation & Building Package

Ground improvement, infrastructure works and buildings construction of 150 MW peat powered power plant.

Project consists of all earthworks, underground piping services, concrete construction of all buildings on site. There are app. 10 main building, 10,500 m2 building footprint, 45,000 m2 site construction area, 235,000 m3 building volume, 71,000 m2 access roads.

82 Houses, Community Facility, Shop Unit, External Works & Site Development Works – Balgaddy 8A

Construction of 82 houses, community facility, shop unit, external works and site development works.

The brief was to design a new neighborhood of approx. 25 dwellings per acre, encouraging safety and security. The buildings are arranged so that residents overlook all streets and public areas where children can play and ‘hang out’. A shared surface of streets and pavements is complimented by robust ground floor red brick walls with white rendered walls and recessed blue planes above, creating a low maintenance, user-friendly environment. This continues inside the dwellings where residents have high quality timber windows that can be easily cleaned from the inside, easy to use locks and fittings and a very high level of finish generally. This is a new high-density neighbourhood of 84 dwellings for South Dublin County Council. The site is bounded to the north and west by existing residential development and a small hospital, to the south by a busy road and to the east by the local school grounds.

67 Houses, Community Facility, External Works and Site Development Works – Balgaddy B

GAMA executed construction of 67 houses, community facility, shop unit, external works and site development works.

This scheme consists of 67 units arranged as apartments, duplexes, one and two storey terrace houses plus a community facility. The development is designed to cater for all types of social housing clients including disabled, single person occupancy and large families. The scheme is designed to create a sense of enclosure and ownership of common areas arranged around a link between an adjacent existing green and the local primary school.