The Gateway, Dublin
2007
The Gateway development in Dublin comprises three office blocks and two apartment blocks on a 3.75 acre site with a large single storey basement beneath, which has space for 300 cars.
The design brief was to create a floor to ceiling height of 2.625m and an overall services depth of 765mm whilst keeping storey heights to the minimum. With a structural depth of 350mm, adoption of Slimdek kept the storey height to 3.47m. Based on a grid sized to suit the car park layout in the basement, Slimdek spanned 7.75m to provide large open spaces with a flat soffit. The minimal depth of the structural slab allowed an uninterrupted services zone to be created.
The Slimdek system offered:
- speed of construction
- a flat clear soffit minimising storey heights
- an uninterrupted services zone, making service installation easier
- maximum use of offsite manufacture
Fact file
Client
Collen Group
Architect
CPM Architecture
Main Contractor
Collen Construction Limited
Structural Engineer
CPM Engineering
Steelwork Contractor
Duggan Steel
