Veterinary office
This project provided the new headquarters for the European
Union Food & Veterinary Inspectorate. It is the first head
office of an EU agency to be located in Ireland.
The project is located on a Greenfield site, at Grange, near the
town of Trim in County Meath and the main facilities provided in
the complex are as follows:
- Extensive offices on two floors, mainly in the form of cellular
offices
- Archives and storage in two basements
- Conference facilities consisting of two conference rooms with
sound proofed translation booths, with air conditioning
- Full kitchen and canteen
- Crèche
- Extensive site works, including an on-site effluent treatment
plant.
We provided full civil and structural design for the project and
site supervision of the civil/structural work. The main technical
issues in the project were as follows:
- Roof structural over the conference and reception area to
accommodate air conditioning and natural light through the
roof
- Extensive use of structural timber in the canteen and reception
areas
- Curved roof trusses in the canteen area to accommodate a curved
timber ceiling
- The on-site effluent treatment works.
The total floor area of the buildings is 11,000sqm.
