St. Kieran’s College, Kilkenny NUI Maynooth Kilkenny Campus

Client Name: St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny NUI Maynooth Kilkenny Campus
Means of Procurement: Traditional
Project Name: Parnassus and Chapel Lane Century St. Kieran's College

Project Description:
This project involved the Conservation and Upgrading of 19th Century/Early 20th of Parnassus and Chapel lane located on the 3rd and 4th floors of the NUI Maynooth Campus. It is intended to convert these floors to surplus accommodation.

These floors are above the library and lecture halls of the 3rd level campus.

Total Capital Value (€M):
€500k

Description of Your Role:
Civil Structural Engineers
Temporary Works Design Engineers
Method Statements & Temporary Works Design

Any Specialist Design Service provided within the discipline:
We were instructed to leave the existing floor joists in place and investigate ways to strengthen them for the proposed loadings. This was both a requirement of the conservation order on the building but also a requirement of the client who wanted to maintain the authentic look of the building internally. We proposed a few schemes that would be non evasive to the building and yet achieve the requirements for the proposed loadings. Some of the proposals included stress skin panels, tension cable through the existing joists and a combination of primary and secondary steels.

Innovative solution provided, if any:
We proposed that primary beams would span alongside the existing floor joists within their depth at the underside of the second floor. Secondary beams would hand intermittently between the primary beams and supporting walls. The location of the secondary beams would be situated along the line of the proposed corridor wall therefore hiding the downstand of the beam. We then hung the first floor joists from the beams at second floor using hangers. The hangers consisted of plates that were welded to the secondary beams and hung through the proposed wall at first floor.

Contact details of project Referee:
Peter Bleutt, Bleutt & O' Donoghue Architects (056) 7762907

Dates of Involvement:
2006-2008

Current Status of Project:
Complete

Other Design Team members (firms):
Architect: Bleutt & O Donoghue
Civil/Structural: Hayes Higgins Partnership
Quantity Surveyor: Nolan Ryan Tweeds
Mechanical/Electrical: Noel Lawlor

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