New Headquarters and Residential Centre for the Franciscan Sisters
Project in brief
The project entails the construction
of a new residential and communal
facility for the Franciscan Sisters at
their Generalate Headquarters at
Sandymount, Dublin.
The structure of the single and two storey building consists of a combination of precast and insitu concrete floor slabs, structural steel framing and load bearing block work walls. Slimfloor steel beams were selected to reduce the overall structural depth.
The building is supported on bored piles which carry a system of ground beams cast monolithically with the ground floor slab.
The roof finish is an insulated profiled metal deck sheet on steel purlins supported on structural steel framing and block walls.
External walls at first floor level are constructed using an insulated timber framed internal leaf with a brick outer leaf. This construction considerably reduced the load carried by the cantilevering floor beams at first floor level.
Franciscan Sisters Generalate Gidford Road
Architects: Gerry Cahill Architects
Value: €1.8m (2007)
Lee McCullough Team: Gerry McCabe
Project scope:
- Two storey Residential Wing
- Single storey Administation Wing
- Glazed Link
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Key Features
Piled foundations were adopted due
to poor load bearing ground conditions at shallow depths and the
need to reduce potential disruption
caused by the haulage of excavated
spoil through a sensitive residential
area.
Steel framing was adopted to allow for future flexibility in layout and to support the overhanging first floor along the front of the building.
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