ALUPROF CELEBRATE SUCCESS AT ICE AWARDS

By Wojciech Brożyna - MD of Aluprof UK

Aluprof have attended the ICE Awards held in Dublin for the second year running. A construction highlight of the year for the Emerald Isle. As Gold Sponsor for the Gala Event, Aluprof offered awards in the best ‘Education Project’ and best ’Healthcare Project’ categories.

The awards, founded by the Irish Building Magazine in 1993, are generally known as the ICE Awards and are the original and premier recognition of performance excellence for the contracting sector in Ireland. The Gala Night is always attended by Ireland’s elite construction professionals, where construction leaders, design and supply chain partners, and clients meet and celebrate construction excellence.

fabricator installers across the region when required to meet programme expectations. Coupled with a physical ‘on the ground’ presence from Aluprof UK & Ireland’s team of support technicians, quickly placed the company in the region as a major systems supplier.

Since Aluprof’s emergence onto the UK & Ireland market sixteen years ago offering a well established European portfolio of architectural aluminium systems, meeting and often exceeding the needs of specifiers, Ireland’s specifiers and major facade contractors have welcomed Aluprof as a major systems supplier. Aluprof’s logistics provides weekly deliveries to Ireland from an extensive stock of aluminium systems and hardware located at their head office in Poland. Powder coating and thermal break facilities are all housed under the same roof allowing products to be finished to meet any specification. In addition, Aluprof also offers a fabrication service to support its network of

Members of TODD Architects, the region’s leading architectural practice, were in attendance at the awards ceremony as a guest of the Aluprof UK team. During the evening Aluprof UK awarded winners trophies to best ‘Education Project’ for Tyndall Institute of Technology UCC, Phase 1&3, constructed by Summerhill Construction, which was designed by Butler Cammoranesi architects and Scott Tallon Walker Architects respectively for each phase. Second category Aluprof UK presented the awards was for the best ‘Healthcare Project’ and University Hospital Galway Radiation Oncology Centre constructed by John Paul Construction and designed by MCA Architects was the winning project to receive the trophy.

One project winner on the evening in the ‘Commercial €10m to €60m’ category, the Cadenza project at Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, used Aluprof systems on the ground floor with its stunning façade fabricated and installed by GLF Facades. Architects on the project were Henry J Lyons Architects who designed the building for client Irish Life.

(LEFT TO RIGHT): OMER KANIPAK (MARKETING MANAGER, ALUPROF UK), JOHN O’BRIEN (PROJECT CONSULTANT, ALUPROF UK), PENNY LINTON (PRINCIPAL, DUBLIN, TODD ARCHITECTS), LAOISE MCGRATH (ARCHITECT, TODD ARCHITECTS), EMMA COONEY (PROJECT ARCHITECT, TODD ARCHITECTS), WOJCIECH BROZYNA (MANAGING DIRECTOR, ALUPROF UK), DAVID CONNOR (SENIOR ARCHITECT, TODD ARCHITECTS) (PHOTO: COURTESY OF ICE AWARDS)

Among the many other projects that have been completed in the Republic of Ireland, the headquarters of Microsoft, Twitter and Google, all play special roles as large-scale office buildings that demand high-quality specifications in building components. Aluprof UK also boasts of being a provider of the aluminium windows and doors of the recently completed six large scale commercial buildings in the Dublin Landings area.

Further information about systems and specification support is available through the company’s website at aluprof.co.uk or direct from their UK head office in Altrincham by phoning +44 (0) 161 941 4005

THE CADENZA PROJECT, EARLSFORT TERRACE, DUBLIN (PHOTO: KANIPAK PHOTOGRAPHY)