Windmill Lane – High Profile Dublin Commercial Construction Project

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Mixed Commercial Construction Project – Residential, Office and Retail Units Granted Permission

Site

1-4 Windmill Lane
1-3 Hanover Street East
19-20 Creighton Street
Dublin 2

Build Value: €34 Million

Floor Area: 16545 Sq M

Extension of Duration Granted: 19th August 2015

EXT OF DURATION: The commercial construction project development will consist of: – Demolition of existing warehouse buildings, the retention of No. 19 Creighton St and the development of a mixed use development consisting of a 4 to 6 storey office building including setback penthouse levels with roof terraces at 3rd floor level, ground floor café and associated rooftop plant. – A 4-5 storey residential building with retail space at ground floor and residential development on the upper floors around a raised first floor level landscaped courtyard providing 15 No. units consisting of 3No. 1 bed units, 8 No. 2 bed units & 4 No. 3 beds with associated balconies and roof terrace at 5th floor. At ground floor level pedestrian access is proposed to the offices from Windmill Lane. Access to the residential units is provided along Creighton St and access to the residential courtyard is provided along Creighton St. & Hanover St East. The development also proposes an ESB substation above flood level. 58 car parking spaces, 214 bicycle spaces and associated plant space are provided in a single basement car park accessed via a new vehicular ramp off Hanover St East. The total gross floor areas provided are as follows: 13,980 sq.m. of office, 887 sq.m. of retail & 1678 sq.m. of residential combining for an overall proposed commercial construction project development of 16,545 sq.m. (excluding basement). Al the above, including all associated ground and landscaping works is to be carried out on a site of 0.4223 hectares.  Companies below listed from original application in 2009 – Reference 4071/09

Commercial Construction Project Windmill Lane

Applicant
Hibernia REIT plc
Marine House
Clanwilliam Place
Dublin 2
01 9058370 | info@hiberniareit.com | www.hiberniareit.com

Architect
HKR Architects
The First Floor
The Courtyard
Blackrock
01 5167328 | dublin@hkrarchitects.com | www.hkrarchitects.com

Architect
John Spain Associates
50 Upper Mount Street
Dublin 2
01 6625803 | info@johnspainassociates.com | www.johnspainassociates.com

Consultant Engineer
O’Connor Sutton Cronin
9 Prussia Street
Dublin 7
01 8682000 | ocsc@ocsc.ie | www.ocsc.ie

Quantity Surveyor
Paul Corrigan and Associates Ltd
Hillcrest House
Hillcrest Road
Sandyford, Dublin 18
01 2136300 | info@pca.ie | www.pca.ie

100+ Dublin Construction Projects Commenced

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Dublin construction projects commenced with build value greater than €1m each – Q1 &Q2 2015

The image below is a visual representation of more than 100 construction projects with a build value in excess of €1m that commenced in Dublin during the first two quarters of 2015. The number of Residential construction projects on the map is an interesting highlight with density of commercial construction project increasing towards the city centre.

Construction Projects Dublin

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School Construction – Presentation Brothers College Extension, Mardyke, Cork

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Presentation Brothers College
Mardyke
Cork

Value: €200k

Floor Area: 280 Sq M

Commencement Notice: 24th August 2015

School Construction / Extension: To remove an existing pre-fabricated building and to construct a single storey locker room/entrance extension to the west of the existing gym and a single storey canteen extension to the east of the existing canteen, together with minor alterations to the existing pedestrian entrance including all associated site works.

MOS School construction

Contractor
Murnane & O’Shea Ltd.
Lahadane
Bantry
Co. Cork
027 50198 | info@mosgroup.ie | www.mosgroup.ie

Architect
KOBW Architects
Heron House
Blackpool Retail Park
Cork
021 450 2319 | arch@kobw.ie | www.kobw.ie

Applicant
Presentation Brothers College
Mardyke
Co. Cork
021 4272743 | info@pbc-cork.ie | www.pbc-cork.ie

€25m Student Accommodation Granted – Dorset Street Upper, Dublin 1

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€25m Student Accommodation Apartment Development
104A, 105-106, 107-115 Dorset Street Upper
65-70 Wellington Street
Dublin 1
Co. Dublin

Floor Area: 14248 Sq M

Units: 108

Granted Date: 16th July 2015

Targeted Investment Opportunities PLC intend to apply for planning permission on a 0.57 ha site located at portion of 104A part 105-106 and 107-115 Dorset Street Upper & No 65-70 Wellington Street Lower, Dublin 1. The site is bounded on the east by Dorset Street Upper, on the north by Wellington Street Lower, on the west by Paradise Place and on the south by existing school and playground to rear of St. Mary’s Place North. The development consists of the demolition of a single storey flat roofed building c.55 sq.m to the south of the site and the construction of 108 no. student accommodation units (463 no. bed spaces) and associated uses comprising c. 14,248 sq.m gross floorspace including c. 297 sq.m of retail/retail services/cafe café/ restaurant/ financial services/ medical floorspace. The proposed development ranges in height from 4 storeys (with partial set back at 3rd floor) along Paradise Place and 4 storeys along Wellington Street Lower; the development is 6 storeys including a setback storey at 5th floor level along Dorset Street with step down to 4 storeys at north and south gables; the inner courtyard spine blocks are 5 and 6 storeys respectively. The development also includes a number of communal facilities including gym, large item store, reception/ management suite, common room, laundry room, TV Room, study room. Waste storage and collection areas are provided along Wellington Street and Paradise Place respectively. The development includes a plant area located at lower ground floor. On Dorset Street at Ground Floor level the following uses are proposed: – Gym – 2 no. retail/ retail services/ café/ restaurant/ financial services/ medical units/ (with an option to subdivide unit no. 1 into two number retail units). Associated signage zones provided on the fascia of these units. – Management suite/ entrance lobby/ reception including general office, manager’s office, communications room, kitchen, staff WC/ shower room. Development to include 2 no. disabled parking spaces and loading bay along Paradise Place. 160 no. bicycle spaces provided at surface level within the development. Open space is provided in 3 no. internal landscaped courtyards. An accessible roof garden is located at 5th floor level on the northern internal spine block. Associated landscaping and public realm improvements along Dorset Street and Paradise Place. Access to the development is via controlled access on Dorset Street and via a controlled pedestrian gate on Paradise Place. The development includes internal switch rooms and plant; all site development works, landscaping, waste management facilities and all other ancillary works.

Henry J Lyons Student Accommodation

Applicant
Targeted Investment Opportunities Ltd
25-28 North Wall Quay
Dublin 1

Architect
John Spain Associates
50 Upper Mount Street
Dublin 2
01 6625803 | info@johnspainassociates.com | www.johnspainassociates.com

Architect
Henry J Lyons Architects
51- 54 Pearse Street
Dublin 2
01 8883333 | hjl@hjlyons.com | www.hjlyons.com

Consultant
Mitchell & Associates
3rd Floor
148 Phibsboro Road
Phibsboro, Dublin 7
01 4545066 | info@mitchellassoc.net | www.mitchell.ie

Consultant
Kennett Consulting Limited
63 Lower Mount Street
Dublin 2
01 2544148 | mail@kennettconsulting.com | www.kennettconsulting.com

Consultant Engineer
DBFL
Herbert House
Harmony Row, Dublin 2
01 4004000 | dbfl@iol.ie | www.dbfl.ie

Student Accommodation Application – Summerhill/Gardiner Lane, Dublin 1

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Student Accommodation
123-128 Summerhill, backing onto 6, 7, 7A Gardiner Lane
Dublin 1
Co. Dublin

Floor Area: 10476 Sq M

Application Date: 5th August 2015

The development will consist of modifications to extant permission Reg. Ref. 4521/08 (ABP Ref. PL.29N.233115), the duration of which was extended under Reg. Ref. 4521/08×1, comprising of the change of use from permitted hotel use to student accommodation use including internal and external modifications to the permitted scheme. Principal modifications include: modifications to the permitted internal layout to facilitate proposed change of use from hotel use to student accommodation use to provide a total of 374 no. student bed spaces and associated facilities including common/social spaces; study rooms; laundry room and facilities management offices and stores and the incorporation of a retail/café unit of approximately 96 sqm; omission of single storey element to the west of the site and replacement with courtyard/garden amenity space and 1 no. parking space for persons with disabilities; reduction in floor to floor heights from 2.85m to 2.7m on upper floor levels throughout the permitted scheme, and increase in ground floor from 4.7m to 5.4m (summerhill and central block only), allowing the incorporation of an additional floor in the block fronting onto Gardiner Lane (increase from 6 no. to 7 no. storeys onto Gardiner Lane with no overall increase in the permitted building height); modifications to the permitted eastern elevation to provide angled openings over the 7 no. permitted storeys; modifications to western elevations to replace green wall screen with angled windows over the 7 no. permitted storeys; omission of louvres from Gardiner Lane elevation; minor, localised, modification to the permitted footprint of the building together with associated modifications on all elevations; omission of permitted undercroft car parking (33 no. spaces) and replacement ancillary student accommodation uses; provision of a total of 332 no. bicycle parking spaces; conversion of permitted flat roof to roof gardens at seventh floor and eight floor levels (sixth and seventh floor level onto Summerhill Block and Central Blocks respectively); relocation of vehicular entrance on Summerhill and omission of vehicular exit (and associated ramp) onto Gardiner Lane, and all associated modifications to landscaping; boundary treatments; site and development works. The proposed modifications result in an overall increase from 9,310 sqm gross floor area (excludes car parking area) to 10,475.8 sqm (or 10,157.9 sqm excluding ancillary bicycle parking; plant and bin storage area); the proposed modifications are generally within the extent of the development permitted under Reg. Ref. 4521/08 (ABP Ref. PL.29N.233115) and presents a total of 8 no. storeys onto Summerhill; 7 no. storeys within the central block and 7 no. storeys ( 1 no. additional floor incorporated into the permitted building extent) onto Gardiner Lane.

Declan Brassil Student Accommodation

Applicant
Summer Road Developments Ltd.
Block 1
Quayside Business Park
Dundalk, Co. Louth

Architect
Declan Brassil & Co. Ltd
Lincoln House
Phoenix Street
Smithfield , Dublin 7
01 8746153 | info@dbcl.ie | www.dbcl.ie

Student Accommodation Application – North King Street, Dublin 1

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Student Accommodation Development
62-63 North King Street
Dublin 1
Co. Dublin

Units: 10

Floor Area: 833 Sq M

Application Date: 31st July 2015

The development will consist of a 6-storey student accommodation building (total floor area 833 m2), comprising 10 no. apartments (9 no. 3-person and 1 no. 2- person), with office and common areas at ground level and a communal garden at roof level a balcony facing North King Street to each upper floor and a clear right-of-way from North King Street to the property to the rear.

Architect
Dixon McGaver Nolan Architects
14 Lower Baggot Street
Dublin 2
01 6764025 | info@dmnarchitects.ie

Construction Tender – €6.3m Saint Patrick’s Special School in Co. Wexford

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Upper Drumgold
Enniscorthy
Co. Wexford

Value: €6.3m

Floor area: 5926 Sq M

Tender Deadline: 15th September 2015

Construction Tender: a new school building for Saint Patrick’s Special School, Enniscorthy. The development will consist of a new part three-storey building of 5926m2, containing 20 Classrooms, Junior and Senior Dining Areas, General Purposes Hall, Library, Specialist Teaching Rooms for Art, Music, Daily Living Skills, Computers, Home Economics, Woodwork and Horticulture, Multi-Sensory rooms, Physiotherapy and Occupational therapy areas, Therapy and Treatment rooms, Nurses’s area, kitchen, ancillary storage and services. Access via existing entrance and exit onto Upper Drumgold, no works proposed to Protected Stone Boundary Wall. Site works to include internal school access road, bus pick up/set down area with covered canopy, 92 car parking spaces for staff and visitors, ball- court, external classrooms, external dining area, school gardens, play areas, landscaping and site services, all at Upper Drumgold, Enniscorthy, County Wexford.

Architect
Department of Education & Skills
Portlaoise Road
Tullamore, Co. Offaly
057 9324300 | www.education.ie

Applicant
Department of Education & Skills
Portlaoise Road
Tullamore, Co. Offaly
057 9324300 | www.education.ie

Consultant
Stephen Diamond Associates
68 Pearse Street
Dublin 2
01 6775670 | mail@sdacla.ie | www.sdacla.ie

August 2015 – Construction Project Commencements

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75 Construction Project Commencements

The image below details the geographic distribution and main construction project sector of 75 construction project commencements that we currently have details on for August 2015.  All main construction project sectors are represented as the map points indicate.  The highest density of construction project commencements is naturally seen in the greater Dublin region – the largest construction project commencement in this dataset is a 154 unit Residential Development in West Co. Dublin which lodged a commencement notice for the 4th August.  Full details on all these schemes are available on our website and via our 10 day free trial.

Construction Project Commencements

 

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Q1 & Q2 – 68 Medical Construction Commencements

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Following yesterday’s announcement that a new planning application was to be submitted for the development of the National Children’s Hospital at St. James’s in Dublin, the image below illustrates the geographical distribution of 68 Medical Construction projects commenced in the Republic of Ireland during Q1 & Q2. Notable densities around Cork and Dublin cities.

Medical Construction Commencements

 

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Hospital Construction – €1.5m Mid Western Regional Hospital Co. Tipperary

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Mid Western Regional Hospital
Thurles Road
Nenagh
Co. Tipperary

Value: €1.5m

Commencement: 29th July 2015

The Hospital construction development proposed will consist of the refurbishment of existing ward accommodation to the south east of the hospital and the provision of a new single storey extension incorporating 16 no. single bed wards and ancillary accommodation all at ground floor level. The works shall include all ancillary, associated, enabling works and temporary provisions together with rerouting of a section of the existing campus access road. The development is proposed on a site which includes buildings listed as Protected Structures within the site curtilage

Manley Hospital Construction

Architect
O’ Connell Mahon Architects
9 Fitzwilliam Place
Dublin 2
01 6767408 | info@oconnellmahon.ie | www.oconnellmahon.ie

Applicant
Health Service Executive – Mid Western Area
31-33 Catherine Street, Limerick
061 316655 | info@hse.ie | www.hse.ie

Contractor
Manley Construction
Main Street
Duleek, Co. Meath
041 9823981 | info@manleyconstruction.com | www.manleyconstruction.com