Heritage & Landscape Engineering Projects
Fahy Fitzpatrick Consulting Engineers are currently working on or have completed work on the following landscape developments and heritage projects.
St. Mary's Church
Client: Leixlip Union Parish
Location: Leixlip, Co. Kildare
Architect: Don Cromer Architects
Description of the works: Structural survey, ground-water survey, roof repairs, drainage remediation & improvements, protection of building from external damp.
National College Of Art & Design
Contractor: Pierce Healy Developments
Description of Works: The front facade and the part of the roof were listed and had to be retained and incorporated into the new structure.
Carrickmacross Courthouse
Client: Monaghan County Council
Architect: Hamilton Young
Bicentenary Commemorative Cloister Garden
Architect: Martin Hallinian
Client: St. Patrick's College, Maynooth
Development of a 0.6 Ha (1.5 Ac) Campus Garden within historic quadrangle in Co. Kildare. Includes:
- 600m² artificial lake
- Pumps for fountains, springs and mister
- Footpaths and pedestrian bridges
- General, under-water & fibre-optic lighting
Digital Park Pedestrian Street, Citywest Business Campus
Architect: Martin Hallinian
Client: Citywest Ltd
Website: www.citywest.ie
Development of circa 10,000m² of hard landscaped pedestrian streetscape with canal and waterfall features. Includes:
- 2,500m² of canal and lake features
- Combined use of water features as run-off conveyance and attenuation
- Two 3m high waterfalls, four weirs, 50m long cascade
- Circulation pumping totalling circa 700l/s
- Boreholes & pumps for “top up” and refreshing
- Bridges and causeways, including carved granite arch
- Massive Limestone columns
- Feature and Underwater Lighting
Citywest Business Campus
Architect: James Smith Architects
Client: Davy Hickey Properties
Landscape Arch: Martin Hallinian
Website: www.citywest.ie
Landscaping of an award-winning 300 Acre Business Campus in Dublin 24. Includes:
- 12,000m² of naturalistic lakes and streams
- Industry-leading combination of landscape features and sustainable drainage systems. Used as the only Irish case-study in the GDSDS
- 4.0m high waterfall
- Four weirs & cascades (0.3 to 1.5m high)
- Pumped circulation system of 20 l/s
- Borehole and pump for “top-up” and refreshing
- Bridges and causeways
- Earthworks for land shaping
- Underwater Lighting
- Utilisation of existing natural water-courses.
St Fiacre Garden National Stud, Co. Kildare
Architect: Martin Hallinian
Client: National Stud
Website: www.irish-national-stud.ie/tourism/saint-fiachras-garden/
Development of a 3 Ha (7.5 Ac) tourist & recreation garden in Kildare. Includes:
- 9,000m2 of lake and stream
- Waterfall with pumped flow of 200 l/s
- “Beehive” huts with under-floor “crystal garden”
- Entrance tunnel, Paths and bridges
Cascade Fountain, Iveagh Gardens, Dublin
Client: Office of Public Works
Architect: Anthony M. O'Neill Architects
Feature waterfall structure in Dublin City Centre park.
