THE PEACH HOUSE, ÁRAS AN UACHTARÁIN

THE PEACH HOUSE, ÁRAS AN UACHTARÁIN

The Office of Public Works commissioned PJ Hegarty to restore a range of glass houses at Áras an Uachtaráin known as The Peach House. The decorative wrought iron structures were built in 1835 by renowned 19th century architect Richard Turner, who also designed the iconic glass houses in Dublin’s Botanic Gardens, Belfast’s Botanic Gardens and Kew Gardens in London. By the mid-2000s The Peach house had fallen into complete disrepair, and iron elements had decayed.

GRIFFITH COLLEGE

GRIFFITH COLLEGE

PJ Hegarty was contracted for the construction and complete fit-out of two student accommodation buildings at Griffith College — Ireland's largest independent third level institution. Demolition of a number of old buildings started in August 2003 and both new blocks, totalling 13,800m² and comprising 352 bedrooms and 603 bed spaces, were completed by March 2005. The accommodation blocks were designed to be architecturally sympathetic to the original buildings on campus, while construction of an underground car park provided more than 150 parking spaces.

THE CONWAY INSTITUTE, UCD

THE CONWAY INSTITUTE, UCD

PJ Hegarty used precast concrete panels with bands of natural grey granite in an effort to match the materials and expression of the site’s original building, while delivering an innovative design. The result is a cutting-edge facility that was a European benchmark in bioscience laboratory design at that time. It houses specialist biomedical facilities including dedicated research technology laboratories.

CHILDERS ROAD RETAIL PARK, LIMERICK

CHILDERS ROAD RETAIL PARK, LIMERICK

Childers Road Retail Park is the most prominent shopping complex in Limerick, located on the eastern side of the city. The complex is anchored by a leading supermarket chain, and also includes 14 international retail clients, including well-known brands. The retail park also has two fast food restaurants.

St James’s Hospital

St James’s Hospital

Leading an extensive project at Ireland’s largest acute service hospitals, PJ Hegarty was tasked with overseeing building works on hospitals 1 and 7 at the Dublin campus. The project in Hospital 1 involved installing a state-of-the-art PET/CT scan facility on the ground floor. Building works included demolition, alterations and fit-out, including the installation of a specialised 25mm thick lead lining system to the PET scan walls and ceilings. The project was completed with minimal disruption — all of Hospital 1’s upper levels were fully functional during the building works.

MARYBOROUGH HOUSE HOTEL

MARYBOROUGH HOUSE HOTEL

PJ Hegarty constructed a modern luxury hotel to incorporate the existing Maryborough House — one of Cork’s most iconic estate mansions, built in the 18th century. Despite the modern conversion to a hotel, Maryborough House has retained many of its classically influenced original features to both the exterior and interior. The four-star hotel was the AA Hotel of the Year for 2014-15.

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC

PJ Hegarty was the main contractor and PSCS for a project which involved building a new medical device manufacturing facility within the existing live Boston Scientific site on Model Farm Road in Co Cork. The new facility has a floor area of 10,500 m² and includes a main warehouse, three clean rooms, male and female changing areas, reception buildings, electrical intake and pump house, as well as a kitchen and canteen, and a main corridor (195m long x 3.6m wide).

PFIZER BIOTECH MANUFACTURING FACILITY

PFIZER BIOTECH MANUFACTURING FACILITY

WYETH BIOPHARMA

WYETH BIOPHARMA

PJ Hegarty was a vital part of a large team of contractors tasked with building this vast facility in Clondalkin, South Dublin—the largest bio-pharma facility in the world at the time of completion, spanning more than 100,000m² at a cost of €1.2 billion. We were responsible for laying all structural foundations throughout the project, and for the construction of three of the five campus buildings, including all architectural and structural works. These include the research and development laboratory, the drug processing building, the central utilities building, an office block and the engineering rooms.

MSD VACCINE & BIOLOGICS STERILE FACILITY

MSD VACCINE & BIOLOGICS STERILE FACILITY

Merck Sharp & Dohme’s Vaccine and Biologics Sterile Facility, an expansion on the existing 65-acre site originally built by PJ Hegarty in 2008, was the first standalone human vaccine project in Ireland. The new €14.5m facility is a multi-storey structure in excess of 10,000m² that marks the company’s first green-field sterile processing facility built outside the US.