CASE STUDY
O ff -s i t e s o l u t i o n s facilitate time ly com ple tion of luxury residential scheme The construction programme for Turkington Rock’s The Paddock in South Dublin, built over the past year by Vision Contracting, benefitted greatly from an early decision to use precast concrete elements for the build.
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escribed as Ireland’s first interior design-led luxury residential property developer, Turkington Rock is a collaboration between interior designer Helen Turkington and developer Keith Craddock (Red Rock Developments). Helen Turkington has worked on some of the most exclusive homes in Ireland and across Europe, while Keith Craddock’s Red Rock Developments has built a reputation for creating exquisite family homes. Turkington Rock has assembled a unique collection of development sites in south Dublin to create newly-built family homes to the highest specification.
THE PADDOCK
The Paddock on Bushy Park Road, Terenure, Dublin, is the latest residential development for the innovative partnership. Built over the past year by main contractor Vision Contracting, the high specification residential scheme of eight contemporary houses is finished to Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB) standard, with precast concrete panels and floors by O’Reilly Concrete. The decision to go with off-site construction for the structure of the houses was influenced by the fact that the development was on a tight site in a busy residential community. But this decision took on even greater significance when the Covid-19 pandemic struck, as it meant that movements to and from site and numbers working on site could be
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kept to a minimum without impeding project progress to any great degree.
LUXURY HOMES
The Paddock is a mix of four- and five-bedroom houses, some over a single-storey basement, with south facing rear gardens. Landscaped private courtyards and balconies also form part of the bespoke design. Each house is finished with an external brick façade. All are fitted with underfloor heating driven by air to water heat pumps and have HRV ventilation, along with triple-glazed windows and doors. The A-BER rated houses have airtightness levels of between 2 and 3 m3/ hr/m2.
OFF-SITE SOLUTION
According to Paul Daly, Site Manager, Vision Contracting, achieving the airtightness performance criteria was helped by the fact that precast concrete panels and floors were precision-fabricated off site. “The brief to Vision Contracting at the outset of this project was to deliver an exceptionally high-quality finish together with the highest standard of energy efficiency,” Paul Daly explains. “The client supplied a design, which we analysed. We then presented them with solutions that would meet their energy performance requirements and facilitate the smooth construction of the scheme.”
