Commendation for Best Large Housing Development of the Year
SOCIAL CONTRACT
Cedar Brook, Cherry Orchard, Dublin 10, Ireland
Architects O'Mahony Pike won a design competition held by Dublin Corporation for a major housing development on a 10.65-acre site at Cherry Orchard that will eventually have at least 376 townhouses and apartments for affordable private sale and shared ownership. The development has been procured by a Public Private Partnership contract requiring the design of a precast-concrete construction system to cut labour costs and shorten the building programme by at least 30 per cent.
A consortium of Park Developments working in a joint venture with building contractors John Sisk & Son and in partnership with the architects and structural engineers DBFL won the tender for the first phase seen here. This uses a precast concrete frame and panel system similar to that of Park Developments' award-winning housing at Mount St Anne's, Milltown (see pages 156-157) but rationalised to achieve the required reduction in labour and construction costs and time.
This scheme has three- and four-storey duplex apartments and some two-storey houses, with one parking space per dwelling (as the development is next to the Cherry Orchard/Park West station on the Suburban Line ffom Dublin Heuston to Kildare). It achieves a density of 38 dwellings per acre, with 30 per cent of the housing being shared-ownership for people on the Corporation's housing list and the rest for private sale at affordable prices from £119,000 to £114,000. Other consortia are being chosen for later stages of this important regeneration project.
Homebuilder: A joint venture between:
PARK DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
The Gallops, 1 Glencairn Road, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland
Tel 00 353 1 295 8917
Fax 00 353 1 295 8920
Contact: Michael Cotter, Managing Director. Email: eryan@parkdevelopments.ie
JOHN SISK & SON LIMITED
Wilton Works, Naas Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, Ireland
Tel 00 353 1 409 1500
Fax 00 353 1 409 1550
Website: www.sisk.ie
Contact: Padraig Keogh, Contracts Manager.
Email: pkeogh@sisk.ie
Architects: O'MAHONY PIKE ARCHITECTS
Milltown House, Mount St Anne's, Milltown, Dublin 6, Ireland
Tel 00 353 1 202 7400 Fax 00 353 1 283 0822
Website: www.omp.ie
Contact: Steve Rowe, Manager.
Email: srowe@omp.ie