Barnwell Point, Hansfield

Project Overview

This was a fast-paced project (64 weeks) for our client Fajon Construction located in the Barberstown area of Dublin.  The scheme consisted of 235 apartments and 12 townhouses over 3 blocks each with two cores, the blocks ranged   from five floors to seven floors high.

Works consisted of:

• Heating generated within the plantroom using Hamworthy Wessex Modumax gas boiler systems and is circulated and distributed around a piped heating network within the carpark and each riser to each apartment via a Wilo triplex circulating pump arrangement within the plantroom
• Each apartment is fitted with a Danfoss heat interface unit
• Each apartment is ventilated using a Vent Axia sentinel Kinetic plus MVHR unit
• Each apartment is provided with cold water from a communal 70,000 litre cold water storage tank
• HDPE fusion weld soild and rainwater pipework throughout the building
• Full BMS control system to monitor and control all of the communal plant within both the plant room and tank room
• A gas detection system to monitor for both natural gas and carbon monoxide within the plantroom
• Automatic pressurisation unit & expansion for the heating system
• Stainless steel flues for the Boiler, CHP and electrical generator from the ground floor plant room to the roof level
• Bin store extract ventilation including fire dampers
• Cleaners store ventilation including fire dampers
• Electrical generator ventilation including fire rated ducting, fire smoke dampers, control panel and intake/exhaust louvres
• Boosted CAT 5 system to supply bin store taps and irrigation taps for the first floor podium greenery areas above the carpark
• Underground fusion weld MDPE gas pipework from the GNI gas meter skid to the plantroom
• Apartment flatpack MVHR ductwork, CWS and soils pipework
• Versatile Radik compact radiators and chrome towel rails for each of the apartments