DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL CENTRAL LABORATORY

DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL CENTRAL LABORATORY

DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL CENTRAL LABORATORY

PJ Hegarty was involved in a prestigious project to design and build a new Central Laboratory for Dublin City Council. The building is an internationally accredited laboratory for biological and veterinary testing, and chemical testing. The project was completed in 15 months, and opened in 2002 in Marrowbone Lane, in the heart of the Liberties area in inner city Dublin 8.

Client : Dublin City Council
Service : Public sector
Architect : Murray O’Laoire
Quantity surveyors : Healy Kelly Turner Townsend
Structural engineer : Arup Consulting Engineers
Services engineer : VMRA
Value : €11 million

The five-floor building is a reinforced concrete structure on augered piles and has more than 5,000 m² of floor space. The scheme comprises laboratory facilities, offices and commercial space. The building is finished externally in granite from China, coloured render and a mixture of timber and curtain wall glazing.

The units in the building were finished and fitted out to a very high and precise international standard, and the Central Laboratory attained the accreditation standard ISO 17025 T from the Irish National Accreditation Board.

The fit-out and finishes include safety flooring, plastered skim walls and ceilings, epoxy resin lab bench tops and acid resistant sinks.