Portfolio: Leisure & Recreation: Oatlands College
- Location:
- Mount Merrion, Dublin
- Client:
- BOM CBS Oatlands College
- Project Architect:
- CJ Falconer & Associates
- Structural Engineer :
- DBFL Consulting Engineers
Construction of a new two storey, sports facility within CBS Oatlands College, which comprises of a sports hall, changing facilities, stores, classrooms, canteen and kitchen.
The design uses natural daylight, building form, materials including block, timber, cladding, powder coated aluminium windows as well as addressing the specific health & safety, accessibility and sustainability requirements of an educational facility of this type.
The construction involved a steel framed structure, in-situ concrete ground floor, standard cavity wall, pre-cast upper floor and stairs, steel framed roof on RC structure, seamless aluminium barrel roof which is curved over the sports hall, and has solar panels installed on the mono-pitched roof over the classroom and dining hall element. Works also included the installation of furniture, fittings and equipment.