Category: BIM Excellence Up to €70m
Project: DoE Schools Framework Lot 2
Contractor: BAM
Client: Department of Education
Engineers: DBFL Consulting Engineers, JV Tierney & Co. Consulting Engineers, Downes & Associates, OCSC Engineers, BB7 Fire & Security Ireland
Architects: Coady Architects, MCOH Architects, HLM Architects (Landscape)

The use of BIM technologies and processes on the DoES Lot2 Framework enhanced the collaboration between the client, design team, and supply chain to deliver state-of-the-art schools for the pupils and the communities.

Whilst using CDE technologies such as BIM360, the design, and construction phase ran smoothly due to the ease of collaboration through the use of ‘Collaboration in the Cloud’ from BIM360. This ensured that the information delivery was seamless and also ensured ease of access to the information for all relevant parties involved to obtain. BIM360 also enhanced the delivery of the Asset Information Model for facilities management.

Along with the use of BIM360 for design, the technology added benefits to health and safety along with quality. The use of the technology meant that real-time data was available at a click of a button for the user to obtain easily and efficiently.

Category:BIM Excellence Up to €70m
Project: Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Plant Phosphorus Fixation
Contractor: Murphy International Ltd
Client: Irish Water
Engineer: Murphy Ireland, Atkins

The Ringsend Phosphorous Fixation and Recovery Project was a project of firsts for both the water treatment industry in Ireland and Murphy Ireland. Delivering a multi-disciplinary project with input from across different Continents to the delivery the works. It was essential that the delivery of the information was standardised to ensure that all aspect from each discipline were captured. In doing this, Murphy embraced a BIM protocol for delivery assembling a team to work cohesively in not only delivering a project but setting a company standard for future delivery of project. This was achieved by capturing and sharing the benefits.

Category: BIM Excellence Over €70m
Project: ESB Project Fitzwilliam
Contractor: PJ Hegarty & Sons
Client: ESB Commercial Properties Ltd.
Engineer: O’Connor Sutton Cronin – Structural, Axis Engineering – Building Services
Architect: Grafton Architects/O’Mahony Pike

This project was a success for PJ Hegarty as it has led to significantly more integration between the BIM/Digital department and other disciplines in developing new ways of working. We feel that our initiative deserves special recognition as it demonstrates PJ Hegarty’s commitment to integrating BIM and Digital Technologies into every aspect of our business and our day-to-day work. PJ Hegarty aims is to continue our digital and BIM journey, by learning from other projects and also developing more innovative ways to utilise digital tools to deliver projects similar to the ESB HQ for our Clients such as ESB.

Category: BIM Excellence Over €70m
Project: Forensic Science Ireland Project – Streamlining the Development of Room Datasheets;
Contractor: Duggan Brothers (Contractors) Ltd
Client: The Office of Public Works (OPW)
Engineer: Civil/ Structural Engineer – Malone O’Regan, Services Engineer – The Office of Public Works (OPW)
Architect: The Office of Public Works (OPW)

We undertook a substantial exercise on a bespoke building, to produce and maintain the projects BIM Models while developing Room Data Sheets for each room within the building.

We have developed a workflow and structure which we have applied to our new projects.

Throughout the process we took BIM back to basics to produce a large quantity of information from a single source while ensuring a seamless design workflow allowing all team members from the client through to the site team to have current and up to date information throughout the duration of the project.

Overall, we embrace new challenges and technologies in order to develop as a company, to improve client satisfaction and to have a leading edge within the industry. We are conscious of providing the best service to our clients to enhance our level of service, quality standards and overall performance.

Category: Civil Engineering Up to €10m
Project: St Dominick’s Bridge
Contractor: Jons Civil Engineering Company Ltd
Client: Louth County Council
Designer: O’Connor Sutton Cronin

St Dominick’s Bridge refurbished project has enhanced the area into an environmentally friendly green space for use by the public and is promoting sustainable living providing a high-quality cycle and foot way in this central location. The removal of the old tarmacadam and concrete surfacing, replaced with granite like paved and seating areas with adjacent planters invite pedestrians to sit for a moment and enjoy the view of the river Boyne and surrounding Drogheda skyline. This project was a great example for collaborative working between the design team O’Connor Sutton Cronin and the construction team of Jons Civil Engineering and Gabriel Hughes (Steel Specialist) to ensure the best outcome for the Client and the public using the bridge. It has enhanced the life span of this original 18 century bridge and provides a strategic link from the town centre to the residential areas on the south western side of Drogheda.

Category: Civil Engineering €10m to €20m
Project: Grange Castle West Access Road
Contractor: Clonmel Enterprises Ltd
Client: South Dublin County Council
Engineer: Clifton Scannell Emerson & Associates Consulting Engineers

Our entry describes how a seemly straightforward project was constructed successfully during extremely challenging conditions demonstrating our teams’ ability to achieve construction excellence. Our team took on the challenge of not just constructing this new piece of South Dublin’s infrastructure to a high standard but also in a manner that was sympathetic to the surrounding environment bringing sustainability to the forefront. The project demonstrates that if all parties to the project act in a collaborative manner then it is possible to successfully increase the sustainability quotient of civil engineering projects. The project is also an excellent example of teamwork, where all members of the team worked to overcome global challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit to minimise the overall impacts to the project.

Category: Civil Engineering €10m to €20m
Project: Ballough Above Ground Installation Bypass Project
Contractor: Murphy Ireland
Client: Gas Networks Ireland
Engineer: RPS Group

The Ballough AGI project was a unique and ambitious project carried out by Murphy for Gas Networks Ireland, with the main purpose to facilitate further development on transmission network while enhancing resilience and provide flexibility to the nationwide gas infrastructure.

The concept commenced back in 2017 and went through the preliminary and detailed design phase. By 2019 the tendering process was initiated, and construction contracts were issued with works commencing in 2020. The works faced several challenges, all of which were successfully overcome by manging our risks and working closely with all the stakeholders, achieving substantial completion by early 2022.

The project was delivered to the highest safety, quality and environmental standards, Murphy Ireland is committed to making sure everything we build, manage, service and develop leaves a positive legacy in the communities which we work and for future generations.

Category: Civil Engineering Over €20m
Project: Vartry WTP Upgrade
Contractor: Veolia and BAM
Client: Irish Water
Engineer: Tobin Consulting Engineers

The Vartry Water Supply Scheme is an iconic piece of civil engineering dating from the late 1800’s. Upgrading the Vartry Water Treatment Plant so that it can continue to provide safe, secure and compliant drinking water was a privilege and an exciting civil engineering challenge.

The key challenges posted by the Vartry WTP upgrade included difficult raw water characteristics with a high standard final water quality, stringent planning requirements, a 150 year old reservoir and tunnel interfaces, works in and adjacent to a live water treatment facility, guaranteeing continuity of supply and carefully managing a range of specialist subcontractors to meet the programme requirements.

Veolia and BAM united to provide Irish Water with a state of the art, value for money, robust solution for the new 80 Million LItres per Day (MLD) Water Treatment Plant which will provide water for more than 200,000 people in North Wicklow & Dublin.

Category: Commercial or Industrial Up to €10m
Project: Soltec Waste Treatment and Recovery Facility
Contractor: Crossdoney Construction Ltd
Client: Soltec (Ireland) Ltd.
Engineer: JA Gorman (Design and Project Management)

The Soltec Tank farm was an exciting challenge for our comapny and marked a new direction in our firm. Being a facilitator to the circular economy and providing facilities for new technologies in this area has also giving the company a new found confidence going forward in branching out into areas outside of our core expertise.

Category: Commercial or Industrial Up to €10m
Project: GCID PorterShed
Contractor: MJ Conroy Construction
Client: GCID PorterShed
Engineer: John Britton Consulting Engineers (Structural & Civil)
Architect: Diarmuid Cronin Architects

The first PorterShed building in Galway city opened in 2016. To date it has supported the creation of over 820 jobs in the West Region and has been home to more than 70 start-up and FDI tech companies.
Given the challenge of repurposing this old derelict building in the heart of Galway city into a vibrant, energic collaborative workspace for start-up businesses was an enormously proud undertaking for MJ Conroy. The location of the site in the heart of old Galway, on a very restricted site provided considerable challenges to the successful planning and execution of this wonderful project. Furthermore, the project of ‘adaptive reuse’ was a great opportunity to regenerate, save and honor the heritage of the city ‘Bowling green’ area, which has a history of being a place of trade and commerce.

Category: Commercial €10m to €60m
Project: Cadenza – Earlsfort Terrace
Contractor: Walls Construction
Client: Irish Life Assurance PLC
Structural & Civil Engineers: Waterman Moylan Consulting Engineers.  M&E Consultants: Arup
Architect: Henry J Lyons

We believe our submission strongly supports our nomination for best practice in the construction of the Cadenza building and is fully deserving of a Construction Excellence Award.

Cadenza is a best-in-class office building with a unique, striking façade and exemplary internal finishes. Delivered against a background of the business interruption caused by COVID-19, our submission sets out the process, the innovative use of design, procurement, materials and construction expertise, and includes detail on logistics management, building standards, technology and the management of neighbour relations. It stands testament to what can be achieved when a multidisciplinary team with skills and experience, fused with a collaborative approach, works together to achieve a common goal.

Category: Commercial €10m to €60m
Project: Ashlin House Cork
Contractor: Clancy
Client: Roundhill Capital
Civil & Structural Engineer: Horgan Lynch
M&E Consultants: DKP International
Architect: O’Mahony Pike

Following an initial brief from our Client Developer in 2018, Clancy committed a team to develop a proposal for a 554-unit student accommodation scheme in Bandon Road in Cork. That process led to the development of a proposal of a contractor designed structure consisting of raft foundations with light gauge steel-framed system walls (LGS), cast-in-situ reinforced concrete floors on metal decking, precast concrete stairs, prefabricated bathroom pods and an external envelope of windows, brickwork cladding, and single-ply roofing all installed in a traditional manner on site. The €54M 554-unit scheme delivered in 2022 incorporated cost and programme efficiencies realised from off-site production.

Category: Commercial Over €60m
Project: ESB Project Fitzwilliam
Contractor: PJ Hegarty & Sons
Client: ESB Commercial Properties Ltd.
Engineer: O’Connor Sutton Cronin – Structural, Axis Engineering – Building Services
Architect: Grafton Architects/O’Mahony Pike

PJ Hegarty were appointed by the ESB in 2017 to Design and Build the ESB Head Office Building. The commercial office building is an iconic commercial building at the heart of Dublin City located on Fitzwilliam Street Lower. The newly constructed 45,000m2 development consists of two commercial office buildings and residential redevelopment. The new office buildings are bookended by protected structures on Baggot Street and Mount Street. In addition, the Georgian houses on Mount Street Lower have been successfully restored and refurbished into modern, high quality residential properties whilst maintaining the properties protected structure status on the overall redevelopment.

Category: Commercial Over €60m
Project: Garda Security & Crime Operations Centre
Contractor: John Paul Construction
Client: The Office of Public Works
Engineer: DBFL Consulting Engineers
Architect: The Office of Public Works

The new Garda Security and Crime Operations Centre (GSCOC) is a state-of-the-art building, housing several Garda Bureaus and operational units with space for over 900 Garda personnel. Dubbed Walter Scott House, the building is a 19,335m2 six and four storey office building with central atrium consisting of 10,060m2 of office space over two floors of 9,275m2 basement carparking. The completed building represents a major investment in policing from the Office of Public Works and the Department of Justice. The flagship, purpose-built facility will provide vital Garda infrastructure for Dublin and national policing. It has been designed and constructed in accordance with An Garda Siochana’s brief to meet the operational requirements of staff designated to occupy the facility and to attain top international standards for policing infrastructure and work environments. This project was successfully delivered on time and on budget to an extremely high standard.

Category: Construction Product Innovation
Product: NURON Cordless Platform
Company: Hilti

NURON is a true game changing innovation in the construction industry. It addresses our customers main challenges of Productivity, Health & Safety and digitalisation all at once without the need for any change to their typical workflow.

Hilti pairs the simplicity of one battery platform, with exceptional performance & reach, comparable to gas & corded. NURON brings the highest standards of health & safety to cordless power tools by reducing exposure to vibration, noise, dust, joint injuries, tripping hazards, and dropping hazards.

Finally NURON’s Data Driven Services allows contractors to optimise their tool park with greater visibility of their tool usage & utilization, while active battery health monitoring flags failing batteries before they become a hindrance on site.

The time for compromising performance for safety on site is over. Now is the time to uncompromise with NURON – a cordless platform that is already revolutionizing the way we work with tools on site.

Category: Construction Product Innovation – Building Fabric
Product: Keylite Expanding Thermal Collar
Company: Keylite Roof Windows

Keylite Roof Windows is the only roof window manufacturer to offer an Integrated Expanding Thermal Collar as standard in all its roof windows, at no extra cost. This patented thermal collar comes integrated into all Keylite roof windows and expands to fill and fully insulate the gap around the frame of the window, resulting in no condensation or cold bridging. It also improves air tightness, Psi Values for SAP and the overall thermal performance of the roof window.

Category: Construction Product Innovation – Building Fabric
Product: Polimask
Company: Kernohan Distributors

Valsir has always been committed to the creation of recyclable products and the implementation of eco-sustainable processes, with a view to the most advanced Green Building principles. on this application for the product Polimask we also get a instant market leading solution based product geared up to save critical time on site and key safety concerns from our installers

Category: Construction Product Innovation – Digital
Product: Fexillon – Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform
Company: Fexillon

Fexillon have been pioneering digital transformation in the built environment for over 23 years across sectors and mission critical infrastructure in Ireland, the UK, Europe and US. Fexillon are collaborating with and supporting Owner Operators and their project teams, rethinking digital processes in respect of their productivity, environmental impact, and health and safety.
The Fexillon Platform and industry experts assist Owner Operators with the delivery and management of Buildings and Infrastructure data, ensuring clients receive the right information at the right time, driving better outcomes for their built assets. The Fexillon Platform gives client a complete overview of all build information with day one engagement between the Projects and Operations team, creating a golden thread of information and approved Digital Building record at handover, ensuring Soft Landings for Facilities Management and providing the foundations to monitor ESG goals on the path to net Zero.

Category: Construction Product Innovation – Digital
Product: Introducing the Leica BLK360, the world’s most advanced ultra-fast reality capture laser scanner
Company: Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon

The BLK360 from Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, disrupts reality capture through the introduction of a next-generation, ultra-fast reality capture laser scanner. This new product dramatically advances reality capture by delivering two of the most sought-after necessities: speed and efficiency.

Drawing on the success and innovative features of the award-winning Leica BLK series that was first introduced in 2016, the new BLK360 creates stunning, photorealistic, accurate digital twins in just 20 seconds. The BLK360 encourages users features speed, portability, and ease of use.

Today’s projects demand fast, accurate, real-time data collection. The new BLK360 is an ideal sensor for any application requiring fast, up-to-date scanning, such as digital construction and building lifecycle monitoring. Users can move through their environments quickly and will benefit from cost and time savings with rapid scanning and on-site pre-registration of data.

Category: Construction Product Innovation – Digital
Product: 3D Detail Viewer
Company: Kingspan

Kingspan’s 3d Detail Viewer is one element of a larger Kingspan Digital Architecture that will evolve to create a new digital customer journey experience.
Its intuitive interface and immersive exploratory details reduce the time required to understand installation methodology and complex envelope systems, while creating a highly visual and detailed way to examine and evaluate construction details and sequencing as well as exploring the product options available. With this tool we have put everything in motion for our “3d first – construction details approach” .

Construction Project Manager: Lee Ryan
Project: Data Centre Project – Switzerland
Company: Crown Roofing and Cladding Ltd
Client: DPR Construction

Lee Ryan is a Senior Project Manager at Crown Roofing and Cladding Ltd. He has been nominated within our company for this award as a result of his efficient and high quality delivery of a data centre roofing project in Switzerland, for our client DPR Construction. Lee’s exemplary performance on this project is just one example of his high standard of work, which he has delivered for our company on several projects across Ireland and Europe, over the past four years. Lee has developed and implemented project management plans and systems that allow for the highest quality project delivery, which are being replicated across our Project Manager team. Lee fosters a positive working culture and has led several different teams across our Irish and European projects to great project success.

Construction Project Manager: David Gogarty
Project: ESB Project Fitzwilliam
Company: PJ Hegarty & Sons
Client: ESB Commercial Properties Ltd.

Project Fitzwilliam was a very demanding and challenging project from both a technical/ design and operational perspective with a lot of logistical and safety constraints.

Effective communication and coordination with the various stakeholders was key in achieving the successful outcome.

The ESBs Project Fitzwilliam is a flagship project for PJ Hegarty and one that we as a company are very proud of. It was a real team effort by all on site and in head office who played the part and I would like to thank the Directors of PJ Hegarty for nominating me for this role and to acknowledge their support through all phases of the project.

Construction Project Manager: Patrick Maguire
Project: Ringsend Phosphorous Fixation and Recovery Project
Company: Murphy International Ltd
Client: Irish Water
Lead Architect:

Patrick graduated and left Ireland in 2011 during a recession to work in the UK. His objective was to acquire sufficient experience abroad, ensuring that when he did return to Ireland he would be able to have a positive impact on delivering national infrastructure. This entry, being Patrick’s first project since returning home to Ireland, is an example of learning from different cultures and improving how we do things through open-mindedness and disruptive change. The impacts, while seemingly average, have imposed different ways of delivery that the challenges of designing and building new technology have become attainable.

Category: Education Project
Project: Extension to LMETB Scoil Uí Mhuirí 2nd level school, Dunleer, Co. Louth
Contractor: Ganson Building & Civil Engineering Ltd
Client: Louth and Meath Education and Training Board (LMETB)
Engineers: Varming Consulting Engineers Ltd, RPS Consulting UK & Ireland – Civil & Structural Engineers
Architect: McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects

The project involved the construction of a new 3,100m2 two-storey 22 classroom extension providing new teaching spaces at Scoil Uí Mhuirí on the Barn Road in Dunleer, Co. Louth.

Ganson Building and Civil Engineering Contractors delivered this project on the agreed schedule and delivered it within budget.

The project objectives were achieved through meticulous planning and site co-ordination activities. Given it was a completion contract, Ganson had to liaise proactively with LMETB and the design team to deal with partially completed work items, testing certificates, CE marking and BC(A)R certification.

To control site activities on site we designed and implemented effective project management tools including; Project Integration Plan, Communications Plan, Works Programme, Quality Assurance Waste & Environmental Management Plan.

As works progressed we maintained an As Built Works Programme. Our H&S Manager and QA Manager conducted weekly integrated HSEQ Audits.

The works were also independently checked by the Clerk of Works and the Assigned and Ancillary Certifiers as part of an ongoing process.

All of these proactive initiatives lent themselves towards the delivery of a Total Quality Management Project, on time and within budget.

Category: Education Project
Project: Callan Laboratories, Maynooth University
Contractor: Kelbuild Ltd
Client: Maynooth University
Engineers: Bowe Consulting Engineers (Civil and Structural), Galileo (M&E Engineer)
Architect: Maynooth University

Due to a long-standing relationship with the Client Maynooth University, it was of high importance to fully complete this project by a pre-designated handover date to allow the University to resume the use of these labs by Students and Staff alike before the new semester. Throughout the duration of the project, a number of items came to light which had the potential to jeopardise the completion date, however Kelbuild Management and Staff worked closely and diligently with Kelbuild Specialist Subcontractors and the designated design team, including the Client, to ensure the additional works were addressed and complete in a timely manner.

Category: Healthcare Project
Project: University Hospital Galway – Radiation Oncology Centre
Contractor: John Paul Construction
Client: Health Service Executive
Engineer: TJ O’Connor & Associates
Architect: MCA Architects

The new University Hospital Galway Radiation Oncology Centre provides Radiotherapy Services for a population of over 1 million people, stretching from Donegal to north County Clare and into the Midlands. The new 3-storey facility will increase treatment rates, with new radiotherapy treatment machines improving the range of treatments that are available to patients. Throughout the project we maintained a collaborative and transparent approach with the client, design team and all stakeholders to develop this much needed facility for the people of the west of Ireland.

The successful completion and handover of the project was achieved using the most up to date technology and with the highest standards of safety, quality and excellence at all times.

Category: Engineering Design Innovation – Element Value Up to €10m
Project: North City Operations Depot (NCOD)
Company: EDC Engineering Design Consultants
Client: Dublin City Council
Engineer: Civils – Tobin Consulting Engineers, M&E – EDC Engineering Design Consultants
Architect: JNP Architects

Dublin City Councils North City Operations Depot will see the Council Operations release 16 existing depot sites for more appropriate development including social housing units. This development consists of a 4-storey office block, Warehouses, Workshops, Covered Carparks & Salt Barn and will house departments for the council. With this development sustainable design was at the forefront of all decisions ensuring that not only was the building’s design robust, but it is also affordable to run and maintain, simple in its ease of use, comfortable and designed for the lifetime of the user. The North City Operation Depot will benefit from 800 workers from the surrounding areas and has transformed a derelict site into an Energy Efficient, low-energy public facility which has been designed to ensure future climate and people needs are at the forefront.

Category: Engineering Design Innovation – Element Value Up to €10m
Project: Lahinch Leisure Centre
Company: Tipperary Energy Agency/McKenna’s Consulting Engineers
Client: Lahinch Leisure Centre
Engineer: Tipperary Energy Agency/McKenna’s Consulting Engineers

Lahinch Leisure Centre was constructed in 1950 and extended in 1996. The area is 3,079m2. The building comprises of a two-story gym, community hall, a kid’s zone, offices, 25-meter swimming pool, children’s pool, jacuzzi, steam room, & changing rooms. There is a café which is subleased.
Pre retrofit, it had a NDBER Rating of E, & a primary energy consumption of 1,707 kWh/m2/yr.
It is now a best-in-class A3 BER (NZEB Status Leisure Centre) with the following features.
·ERP compliant air handling units with heat recovery.
·Energy efficient heating & active cooling system throughout providing simultaneous heating and cooling coupled with heat recovery ventilation.
·Smart LED lighting with individual occupancy detection and daylight sensing
·137 kWp Solar PV Array & 30kWh battery storage system
·Geothermal heatpump system
·Biomass boiler
·Upgraded building fabric, EWI, new roof, new windows, and doors
·De-stratification fan installation
·Variable speed drive pumps

Category: Engineering Design Innovation – Element Value Up to €10m
Project: Specialist Use of PostTensioning on Spencer Place
Company: ClearTech Engineered Solutions
Client: PJ Hegarty
Engineer: CS Consulting
Architect: Henry J Lyons

ClearTech Engineered Solutions are experts in structural engineering design – devising innovative, sustainable, net zero solutions for complex projects in the built environment.

For 12 years, ClearTech has been promoting value engineering through innovative ideation. We should be incorporating in our goals the target of net zero by 2050. To get to that, we need to start reducing our material usage, concrete, steel and our wastage. To do this and make our projects sustainable, we need to embrace and encourage innovation. In ClearTech we do this through designing with Post Tensioning.

But we can’t do it alone. For this Spencer Place project, we worked with a fantastic team. We were encouraged to develop a sustainable solution, where ClearTech designed the Post Tensioned floors and in particular the impressive 7.5m cantilever frontage, which innovatively incorporated bridge technology.

All stakeholders can now take credit for this very elegant and worthy building.

Category: Engineering Design Innovation – Element Value Over €10m
Project: Cadenza, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2
Company: GLF Facades
Client: Walls Construction Ltd.
Façade Consultant: Billings Design Associates
Architect: HJ Lyons Architects

This entry represents one of the most complex façades ever undertaken in Ireland. It encompasses the design of the entire building envelope but presents the greatest challenges with the design of the external wall system EWS-002 – the stone veil in front of the main façade, and EWS-006 – the large-format glass enclosing the two-storey height reception area.
GLF has built on the experience of an earlier project (One Molesworth Street – a 2019 ICE winner) and taken it to another level. The façade at Cadenza at Earlsfort Terrace represents our greatest achievement to date in terms of complexity and variety of materials. Having started as a supplier of aluminium windows, GLF is now delivering world-class facades encompassing all types of materials including stainless steel, brass, bronze, stone and terra cotta. It has transformed into an industry-leading façade provider that can convert any Architectural concept into an engineered system.

Category: Engineering Design Innovation – Element Value Over €10m
Project: Osberstown Sludge Hub Upgrade
Company: Veolia
Client: Kildare County Council / Irish Water
Engineer: Veolia

Designed, built, commissioned and operated by Veolia, the Osberstown Sludge Treatment Facility is a unique solution which has delivered an energy self-sufficient facility saving >8,500 tonnes CO2/annum and >35,000 MWH/annum.
The innovative mindset of the design team, working in collaboration with the site operations team, global centres of expert knowledge and key partners allowed the considered use of innovative technologies to deliver Advanced Anaerobic Digestion via Thermal Hydrolysis.

Osberstown is the first inland facility of its size to successfully use AAD setting a new standard in Ireland and globally while exceeding the original client brief.

Category: Health, Safety & Wellbeing Initiative – T/O Up to €200m
Company: O’Reilly Group

When we look at what we have achieved, we must measure it to ensure it works or if we need to revise our methods of making our workplace a safer one. This is our objective, safe place to work. So when we look at our Accident Frequency Rate now in December 2022 we can see a significant improvement. It however does not work unless we have the recourses, support and encouragement.
After that we need all our colleagues in all the production areas to come on board with us. Make a safety video. The feel good factor that this video created was unmeasurable. We could not use all the material we gathered is making this video. There were so many involved.
Our review of our training methods is continually revised (SOPs, TBT). They start out as Risk Assessments and form our Safety Statement.
Secure our future: Choose Safety in 2023.

Category: Health, Safety & Wellbeing Initiative – T/O Up to €200m
Company: Coffey

2021 and 2022 were years of significant change for Coffey, in the midst of a pandemic. We were aiming to bring about a change in our philosophy as an organisation by breaking through the traditional image of construction, and indeed health and safety in construction. Our monthly ‘Fatal Risk Series’ focused on a high-risk activity that we encounter daily was beneficial in ensuring that we don’t lose sight of the basics. Our ‘Learning from Others’ series mentioned earlier encourages employees to view incidents outside of our organisation as learning opportunities and apply them to our own operations. It has been our “Leading by Example” programme, with the focus on psychological safety, that has been the catalyst for a fundamental change in how we move forward in health and safety and safe operations at Coffey.

Category: Health, Safety & Wellbeing Initiative – T/O Up to €200m
Company: Duggan Brothers (Contractors) Ltd

DBL have placed Health, Safety and Wellbeing at the forefront of our business and on our projects.

The re-structuring of our safety department, and our implementation of the “Bringing Safety Back to Sites” initiative has been enormously successful. Shifting the emphasis from Safety only to Health, Safety & Wellbeing has been a key objective.
The appointment of a new EHS Manager and redeployment of members of our site teams to the EHS department has re-focused the company on a more collaborative site-based approach, which has resulted in:

• 500,000hrs with no LTA’s in our FSL project.
• Drastic reduction in number of accidents and incidents being experienced on site despite having record numbers on our sites since Jan 2020
• Noticeable improvement in Staff interaction with EHS dept.
• Reduced Staff turnover.
• More positive view on Safety, Health, and Wellbeing throughout the company.
• Happier, more appreciative workforce.

Category: Health, Safety & Wellbeing Initiative – T/O Up to €200m
Company: Wills Bros Ltd

Wills Bros Ltd have implemented a systematic approach to Safety Health and Welfare on this most challenging project. Vigilance in executing measures set out to protect the workers and community and environment has paid dividends. Workers have grown in confidence borne out of the experience of a PDCA (plan do check act) work environment, an open encouraging management approach and access to the technology to guide and undertake this sensitive project.

Category: Health, Safety & Wellbeing Initiative – T/O Over €200m
Company: Walls Construction

At Walls Construction, we maintain our fundamental belief that everyone has the right to return home unharmed at the end of every working day. This is core value of our “Arrive Safe – Work Safe – Leave Safe” programme.
Initiatives such as our “Time to Engage” behavioural safety programme aim to change the mindset of all personnel working on our projects so that unsafe conditions and behaviours can be challenged without fear of consequences. This has been further explored with our engagement with Theatre at Work in 2022, which we plan to progress further in 2023.
We have received numerous awards from the National Irish Safety Organisation (NISO) for our approach to health and safety management and the systems we have adopted and used including a consistent High Achiever and other high-level awards at all recent award ceremonies.
We are committed to a policy of effectively managing all aspects of health, safety, welfare, and wellbeing in our journey towards realizing this belief.

Category: Health, Safety & Wellbeing Initiative – T/O Over €200m
Company: Murphy International Ltd

As we depend on the skills and commitment of our employees to achieve our objectives, we are an Investor in People, our people. Murphy promote the importance of having a safe and healthy workplace, positively promoting the construction sector as an attractive industry to work. All employees are encouraged and incentivised to focus on their personal development and make their fullest possible contribution to the company.

As a leading family owned company, we ensure Murphy is a safe, inclusive, and great place to work where people feel secure and comfortable being themselves – One Team, One Family, One Murphy – Living our Never Harm Values.

Category: Health, Safety & Wellbeing Initiative – T/O Over €200m
Company: Jacobs

“we believe the wellbeing of our people is fundamental to our success. Our passion for safety and our courage to care for one another and our environment inspires mutual respect. Safety is not what we do, it who we are. We call it our way of life, BeyondZero®, our Culture of Caring.” – Dr. Joseph J. Jacobs

Jacobs have improved our safety performance the past two years by 50% lower recordable rate in 2021 and 2022, with 2022 being a record-breaking year with two medical treatment across the Irish business.

We truly believe we are living the real journey of BeyondZero, we not only reduced accident in work place, but we have contributed to reduced accidents in the home as people take the value of safety from work and share it with their families and communities.

Category: Fit Out or Refurbishment Up to €5m
Project: General Motors – FKM
Contractor: FKM Fit Out
Client: General Motors
Engineer: Loscher Moran & Pro Cad Engineering
Architect: Lawrence Mc Farlane from SLMD

GM’s Fit Out comprised of a CAT B fit out over 3 floors of a LEED accredited building. The scope of works was to complete a high-end fit out that represented the GM brand that was functional and stylish and could fit the head count required for day-to-day operations. The final design incorporated aspects of a vehicle’s parts with exposed services like under the hood of a car, and roads through clever use of floor finishes and lighting. Given the surroundings and the view from the floor plates the scope was to also bring the outside inside through biophilic design, something that was accomplished through the many moss walls incorporated into the design.

The time frame for this project was to start before Christmas 2021 and complete before St. Patricks day 17/03/2022. FKM delivered the project on time and on budget!

Category: Fit Out or Refurbishment Up to €5m
Project: Private Client – Corporate Office Fit-Out
Contractor: Interiors by Sisk
Client: Private Client
Engineer: M&E Eng.: HDR
Architect: Perkins & Wills

This high-end fit-out project was for a Confidential Banking Client as they relocated from their existing office into their new premise. A key project deliverable was that this fit-out secured the Client’s future potential to expand their Dublin facility, create a perfect working environment, and accommodate their staff who were moving from other offices. The Client’s requirements were centred on creating a comfortable, modern, and cutting-edge office environment for their staff, which was reflected in the complex scope of works. The project scope included the installation of partitions to form new meeting rooms, open plan workstations, meeting pods, a breakout area, social hub space and a TER room, new magnetic timber flooring with a terrazzo floor, and more. The entire Interiors by Sisk team were incredibly proud to deliver this fit-out project on time, within budget, and to the Client’s satisfaction.

Category: Fit Out or Refurbishment Up to €5m
Project: GCID, Portershed, Bowling Green, Galway
Contractor: MJ Conroy Construction
Client: GCID PorterShed
Engineer: John Britton Consulting Engineers (Structural & Civil)
Architect: Diarmuid Cronin Architects

The first PorterShed building in Galway city opened in 2016. To date it has supported the creation of over 820 jobs in the West Region and has been home to more than 70 start-up and FDI tech companies.
Given the challenge of repurposing this old derelict building in the heart of Galway city into a vibrant, energic collaborative workspace for start-up businesses was an enormously proud undertaking for MJ Conroy. The location of the site in the heart of old Galway, on a very restricted site provided considerable challenges to the successful planning and execution of this wonderful project. Furthermore, the project of ‘adaptive reuse’ was a great opportunity to regenerate, save and honor the heritage of the city ‘Bowling green’ area, which has a history of being a place of trade and commerce.

Category: Fit Out or Refurbishment €5m to 30m
Project: Brown Thomas Dundrum
Contractor: T&I Fitouts Ltd
Client: Brown Thomas
Engineer: Lawler Consulting
Architect: Oppermann Associates

This project was commissioned by Brown Thomas to bring High Street retail to the modern generation, utilising its reputation for quality and luxury from its Grafton Street location. A One-Stop-Shop was designed for the generational shopper to include lifestyle, beauty, clothing, health, treatments and accessories, and all completed on a tight 24-week programme to meet the Client’s already media announced opening date and overcoming a myriad of different challenges at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. And with the store currently exceeding expectations on customer footfall and financial return the concept and brief have been delivered and exceeded.

Category: Fit Out or Refurbishment €5m to 30m
Project: 16 St Stephens Green
Contractor: Flynn Management & Contractors Ltd
Client: October Investments
Engineer: Garland
Architect: RKD Architects

A clear vision for the 16 St Stephens Green project was key. A high end prime located office block with a mix of contemporary office space and Georgian elegance, featuring historic features while not compromising contemporary workplace efficiency. The building naturally fits into its prestigious area while embracing the surrounding environment.

This refurbishment took its notes from the heritage ingrained in the existing Georgian building. The early decoration of the building provided the perfect palette for restoring Georgian features to their original elegant splendour as well as the modern materials throughout the rest of the building. Original decorative features and tasteful flourishes remain faithful to the district Georgian Dublin aesthetic. The new glazed link also provides the greatest interconnectivity possible between the protected structure and modernised office building ensuring beauty and function are harmonised.

Through careful planning and execution, the project team not only delivered on the clients brief but also surpassed those expectations. Relationships with the community were not only maintained but developed throughout the project. The bespoke modern glazing and restored Georgian façade provides an elegant finish that draws attention and acclaim.

Category: Fit Out or Refurbishment Over €30m
Project: Central Plaza
Contractor: Stewart Construction
Client: Hines
Engineer: DBFL Consulting Engineers Ltd
Architect: Henry J Lyons

The refurbishment of an iconic landmark building ‘Old Central Bank’ project was undertaken on a Construction Management basis, and completed to LEED Gold standard, which saw the building’s exterior remaining largely preserved. The exterior granite façade was cleaned and repairs/ replacements of the stone were made.

Works included the refurbishment of the 11 stories contained in the Tower Building inc. new glazing and all enabling works required for the new elements, the construction of a new glazed rooftop structure, ground floor F&B units, repurposing of the basement levels from car parking into F&B/Retail units, Welfare facilities for office levels above, new plant areas and a management area for the development.

Refurbishment of Commercial & Annex Buildings, cleaning of stone and concrete façade. New glazing, upgrade of all M&E, a new fully glazed 4th floor level and feature stair core with a lift, was added to the north of the Commercial building.

Crann an Oir sculpture relocation and refurbishment which involved cleaning and repairs of granite stone and the bronze leaf sculpted element.

Category: Fit Out or Refurbishment Over €30m
Project: Dublin Landings Block 4 & 5
Contractor: Walls
Client: Central Bank of Ireland
Engineer: Structural Engineers: OCSC, Services Engineers: HOBA
Architect: Interior Architects: Henry J Lyons

Walls Construction completed Blocks 4 & 5 of Dublin Landings in December 2019, which comprises 43,650m2 of Grade A office space in 3 separate but linked buildings. This forms part of the overall Dublin Landings development of commercial, retail, and residential buildings. The buildings were completed to grey box and Walls subsequently carried out the full fit-out of these blocks for the Central Bank of Ireland. The project involves the CAT A fit-out to three upper floors and CAT B fit-out for CBOI on the remaining floors in the newly constructed Dublin Landings Block 4 and 5.

The buildings are supported off a podium above a double basement constructed by Walls with the main vehicular site access provided from Castle Forbes Road to the east of the development. The works include two large reception areas, atrium with walkways and bridges, office floors, catering services and a feature link bridge between DL 5 block and the CBOI headquarters on North Wall Quay.

Category: Industrial Over €10m
Project: Musgrave Kilcock Warehouse Extension
Contractor: CField Construction
Client: Musgrave Limited
Engineer: MMOS
Architect: CDA

The Musgrave Kilcock Warehouse Extension Project was hugely successful from various aspects. All main-stay construction elements needed for successful project delivery came together from health & safety, quality control, programme, procurement & logistics and cost control.

Project success was framed from the outset by the client around a very tight 10-month programme, with stringent constraints regarding un-obstructed live Musgrave operations running 24/7, 52 weeks a year.

Successful delivery of this fast-track project exceeded the client’s and design team’s expectations, given the sheer volume of accelerated front-end-design and procurement needed to meet the programme, efficient on-site execution and interface considerations.

Category: Industrial Over €10m
Project: WuXi Biologics Green Field Manufacturing Facility Dundalk
Contractor: Jacobs
Client: WuXi Biologics Ireland Limited
Engineer: Integrated Project Services (Ireland) Limited (IPS)
Architect: Scott Tallon Walker

Wuxi’s first greenfield Bio-pharmaceutical site outside China demanded an exemplary safety record with over 6.2M site hours worked to a fast-track schedule.
Jacobs delivered the extremely complex project on budget through Brexit and Covid-19 disrupters, employing an IPD model.

Offsite fabrication with an onsite “Lego” type install was a big advantage for schedule and safety.

Covid-19 lockdown was used to ensure sanitary protocols were implemented for safe workforce return.

The facility is now in final stage qualification to deliver lifesaving drugs to patients. It will be regarded as a stand-out project demonstrating exemplary, positive collaboration between all project stakeholders.

Category: Innovation in Construction – Company T/O up to €100m
Innovation: Last Planner System
Company: Coffey
Client: Irish Water

Coffey Driving Lean Continuous Improvement and Innovation.
Our customer is the reason we are in business and one of the reasons we have found that Lean thinking, tools, and techniques have been so effective is that it focuses on the value stream from the eyes of the customer. Our Lean transformation has progressed steadily from early 2021. Value Add and eliminating waste were initially the key focus. This has now expanded to include the Last Planner System Collaborative Planning on each of our sites where the pillars of Lean from a Coffey point of view are being embedded.

Category: Innovation in Construction – Company T/O up to €100m
Innovation: Kingspan PowerPanel Roof Refurbishment Project
Company: Gravity Construction Ltd
Client: Kingspan

Kingspan’s flagship manufacturing facility in Kingscourt Co. Cavan showcases how much can be achieved through efficient refurbishment by a competent contractor.

Gravity Construction Ltd, with its reputation for fast paced roof renovation projects, used Kingspan’s innovative new product QuadCore PowerPanel Pitched to improve the energy efficiency and aesthetics of the building, enrich the working environment for the 268 employees within, and to generate clean energy to support operations.

QuadCore PowerPanel Pitched is the next generation solution for pitched roof applications, combining industry leading QuadCore insulated panels with high-efficiency monocrystalline photovoltaic technology in a single, factory manufactured component. Put simply, it allows building owners to Insulate and Generate and is now a viable option for non-domestic property owners to utilise their untapped energy and futureproof their buildings.

Category: Innovation in Construction – Company T/O up to €100m
Innovation: Digital Twinning Ballymore Seamount Rise and Riverwalk
Company: Khiron TA Dimension88
Client: Ballymore Property

Ballymore Group with Dimesion88 is leading the way in digital transformation using Digital Twinning and the Omniverse.

Category: Innovation in Construction – Company T/O Over €100m
Innovation: Automated Data-Driven Project Controls System
Company: Mace Technology (Ireland) Limited
Client: Confidential

In our digitised world, the majority of actions in construction industry leave a data trace. This data collected during the construction process – if utilised correctly – can not only provide insights into project performance but also forecast and highlight interdependencies between various project disciplines.
Widespread availability of data analytics tools has allowed us to improve our existing reporting methodologies by migrating to a dynamic and interactive data-driven project controls system, where reports for all project levels and disciplines can be found in one place. We have also deployed data models which support this process by highlighting cross-discipline project risks and issues from both a positive and negative perspective.
Through the use of databases and APIs, we managed to make our system live, delivering information to our team instantly and thus creating an environment which supports quick and accurate decision making.
This system is universally accessible to all project stakeholders via phone, iPad, laptop and constantly in our project mission control room where the team can freely meet and collaborate in order to deliver service excellence to our client.

Category: Innovation in Construction – Company T/O Over €100m
Innovation: Cairn Innovation Forum (Implementation of Offsite Housing Construction at scale)
Company: Cairn Homes
Client: Cairn Homes plc

The unique position of Cairn Homes is our unrivalled ability to evaluate an innovation across the whole of the construction/development industry’s needs. Identifying inefficiencies from our position as a cradle to grave operator. Our highly skilled innovation team has identified scalable ways to increase housing production with cost effective methods that can be built quickly while also not compromising on design or our customer’s experience. Our focus on our Library of Homes with factory made Prefabricated Timber Frame Housing and Prefabricated LGS Duplexes and Apartments has allowed us to become the market leading in delivering quality homes in Ireland .