Residential Engineering Projects
Fahy Fitzpatrick Civil & Structural Engineers are currently working on or have completed work on the following residential developments and engineering projects.
Bettyglen Apartments
Location: Raheny, D5
Client: Liberty Homes
Architect: John Neill Partnership
Development of five blocks of apartments of four and five storeys over basement car parking.
Structural and civil engineering design documentation and supervision of basement car park and apartment structure over together with foul and surface drainage systems.
Design and supervision of re-direction of existing culvert on site.
Monkstown Housing
Location: Dublin
Architect: Paul O’Toole Architects
This development comprised of the construction of 3 & 4 storey apartments blocks with a number of 2 storey-terraced houses.
The buildings were constructed from precast concrete hollow core slabs supported on load bearing masonry walls. Copper cladding was used extensively in the roof construction.
Apartments Wingfield Stepaside, Co. Dublin
Architect: McCrossan O'Rouke Manning
Client: Liberty Homes
Development of 370 houses and apartments on sloping rock site with basements and podium decks.
Civil & Structural Engineering design services and site supervision, including design of reinforced concrete basements and podium structure over, design of roads and foul & storm drainage systems.
Carlton Millrace Hotel Bunclody, Co. Wexford
Architect: Beer & Burgess
Client: Norc Group
Development of a 90 room four-star hotel and leisure centre over four floors including gym, swimming pool and restaurant with an associated apartment block and a retail centre.
This development was built on contaminated land and required strengthening works of the river banks
Chapelizod Apartments
Location: Dublin
Architect: Francis Whelan & Associates
This development consisted of the construction of 21 apartments in a three-storey building over basement car parking.
The basement and ground floor were constructed from insitu reinforced concrete. Masonry load-bearing walls support the upper precast concrete floors and the timber framed pitched roof. Lightweight block work was utilised throughout the structure to minimise the loading on the ground floor transfer structure.
Social Housing Willie Birmingham Place, Dublin
Architect: Pat O'Brien
Client: Dublin City Council
This project involved the construction of two & three storey apartment blocks on a difficult site due the steeply sloped nature of the ground and the proximity of an adjacent river.
The buildings were constructed on piled foundations with reinforced concrete slabs and ground beams at ground level and precast wide slabs at upper levels. Load-bearing block work was used throughout to support the upper floors and timber-framed roof.
Social Housing Arran St East, Dublin
Architect: Lorcan Greene Associates
Client: Dublin City Council
General refurbishment and new external stairs to terraced social housing.