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Recent Conservation Projects In Dublin North
In addition to providing a reactive maintenance service, OPW Property Maintenance is responsible for carrying out planned and preventative maintenance and minor capital works in the State’s portfolio of owned and leased buildings. As part of this programme of work, the Dublin North Regional Office has recently carried out some significant conservation projects to maintain, repair, and refurbish a number of protected structures. Scoil Caomhin, Department of Education campus, Marlborough Street, Dublin 1
Clontarf Garda Station
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Eithne Moran, Senior Architect Dublin North
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Conservation works were carried out in 2020/2021 to repair the façade of this school, originally built as a laboratory building in 1902. There was extensive cracking, and large areas of the existing sand-cement render had failed and become detached from their substrate. There was also damage to ornamental details including dentils, string courses, and cornices. The render was removed, structural repairs carried out to masonry and brickwork, and the building re-rendered in lime, with a ruled ashlar finish. New lead dressings were provided to string courses, and timber sash windows were also refurbished. The school remained open and fully operational throughout. Team: Dermot Hally (Dublin North); Alan Bruce (OPW M+E); Ian Wolfe (OPW CSE); 7L Architects (consultants); Carron and Walsh (Consultant QS); P.J.Hegarty (Measured Term Maintenance Contractor)
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Scoil Caomhin completed external view
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Contract sum: c.€570k ex VAT
Deerkeeper’s Lodge
Clontarf Garda Station
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Built in 1909 to designs by Robert Cochrane, this building retains its early form, character and much of its fabric. Significant deterioration of the brickwork, due to its exposed location on Clontarf seafront, necessitated a programme of facade repairs, as well as repointing of chimneys and refurbishment of all rainwater goods. Methods of brick repair included pigmented lime slurry; pigmented mortar repairs; and replacement bricks to match existing; as well as repointing with lime mortar. All timber windows, as well as the fascia and soffit, with its ornamental brackets, were also repaired and refurbished.
Designed by Jacob Owen, and built c.1840, this lodge was one of several buildings built to accommodate specific management roles in the Park. Dublin North carried out an extensive refurbishment of the house in 2020/2021, including dry lining external walls, new floor finishes; new kitchen / bathroom fit outs, as well as repairs to roofs, windows, and outhouses.
Team: Paul Condon (Dublin North); Colin Blanche (OPW M+E); 7L Architects (Consultants); Oldstone Conservation (Main Contractor).
Team: Sean Lynam (Dublin North); Sheridan Woods Architects (Consultants); Cundall (Consultant M+E Engineers); Gibson Builders (Main Contractor)
Contract Sum c. €220k ex VAT
Contract sum c. €350k ex VAT
Deerkeeper’s Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin 8
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