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Location | Client | Completion | Awards |
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Dundalk, Ireland | Dundalk Institute Of Technology | 2012 | 3 |
This project involved the conversion of the 1967 PJ Carroll’s cigarette factory, one of the best examples of Miesian architecture in Europe, into a high quality third level education facility with exemplary sustainability features.
The conversion, for Dundalk Institute of Technology, was successfully carried out under significant constraints to retain the building’s image and its core philosophies of post modernist industrial design. Innovative sustainable design solutions include the use of the on-site wind turbine to generate ice at night-time, which is then used for daytime cooling.
This project is important because it demonstrates that even the most challenging building can significantly reduce its carbon impact when refurbished. The building demonstrates that air leakage should not be considered too complex an issue to be applied to a refurbishment.
Arguably Ireland's most elegant exemplar of Modernism, this beautiful building, its art and considered setting has been not just restored but renewed.
RIAI Awards Judges
environmental engineering, sustainability