DBFL Consulting Engineers

DBFL are supporting Laois County Council and TFI - Transport for Irelandnsport for Ireland (National Transport Authority) on the preparation of the Portlaoise Local Transport Plan.

To inform the preparation of the Plan, we want to hear about how you currently travel in and around the town, any barriers you may face, and your suggestions for improving Portlaoise’s transport network – including ideas for safer crossings, cycle facilities, safe school zones, better linkages to services and amenities, bus services, Park and Strides, or traffic calming and other road safety measures.

Access the Survey here before 23rd June:

https://consult.laois.ie/en/content/pre-draft-stage-portlaoise-local-transport-plan

DBFL are supporting Offaly County Councilcil and TFI - Transport for Ireland (National Transport Authority) on the preparation of the Tullamore Local Transport Plan.

To inform the preparation of the Plan, we want to hear about how you currently travel in and around the town, any barriers you may face, and your suggestions for improving Tullamore’s transport network – including ideas for safer crossings, cycle facilities, safe school zones, better linkages to services and amenities, public realm improvements, bus services, Park and Strides, or traffic calming and other road safety measures.

Access the Survey here before 14th June:

On-Line Survey for (Pre-Draft Stage) Tullamore Local Transport Plan (LTP) – Seeking Your Views - Offaly County Council Offaly County Council (OCC) and the National Transport Authority (NTA) are currently preparing a Local Transport Plan (LTP) for Tullamore and invite everyone to complete an online survey to help make the LTP as inclusive and unique for Tullamore as possible. The LTP aims to improve connectivity and....

DBFL are supporting Cavan County Councilouncil and TFI - Transport for Ireland (National Transport Authority) on the preparation of the Cavan Town & Environs Local Transport Plan.
To inform the preparation of the Plan, we want to hear about how you currently travel in and around the town, any barriers you may face, and your suggestions for improving Cavan’s transport network – including ideas for safer crossings, cycle lanes, safe school zones, better linkages to services and amenities, improvements to Cavan’s bus services, Park and Strides, or traffic calming and other road safety measures.



Cavan Public Participation Network Cavan Age Friendly Cavan Disability Network The Anglo-Celt Healthy Cavan Cavan & Monaghan Rainbow Youth Local Enterprise Office - Cavan Cavan Chamber of Commerce Cavan Institute Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board - CMETB St Clare's Cavan St. Felim’s NS Cavan Farnham N.S. Parents Association Gaelscoil Bhréifne Corlurgan National School Breifne College Loreto College Cavan Royal School Cavan St Patrick's College Cavan Holy Family School, Cootehill

Cavan Town Local Transport Plan Survey Cavan County Council has developed a survey to help inform the Local Transport Plan for Cavan Town and its environs, which is being prepared with the National Transport Authority.

A massive congratulations to our very own Emma Daly who has spent the last week cycling the length of Ireland from Malin to Mizen with an amazing team of friends (including a few from DBFL) to help raise funds for the Irish Motor Neuron Disease Association.
The team of cyclists raised a whopping €50,000 for the worthy cause, which has been a huge support to Emma’s family over the past year.
They finished the 700km route over 6 days in what turned out to be one of the hottest weeks of the year.
Speaking at the end of her fantastic charity challenge Emma said
“I would like to say thank you to everyone who donated. I am absolutely blown away by people’s generosity. It was the most incredible week with an amazing grand finale finish”.

Works at Castleforbes have progressed rapidly over the last few months, now at Level 7. When complete the Premier Inn Castleforbes, will be Premier Inn’s largest hotel in the city centre. Great work on site in Dublin’s Docklands by Collen Construction, with our design partners at O'Mahony Pike Architects, Ethos Engineering, Brady Shipman Martin and Maurice Johnson & Partners (mjp.ie) for our Client Glenveagh Properties PLC.
Fantastic work from our team:
David Hutchinson, Lewis Hayes, Neil Wilson, Nick Fenner, Luke Caplice and Aidan Comerford.

DBFL provided civil and structural engineering services for Beckett Locke by Locke Hotels, working with Bennett (Construction) Ltd to develop and design the structural solution for the 8-storey aparthotel located beside the 3 Arena and Luas terminus in the Dublin Docklands.

The €35M development consists of 241 aparthotel rooms, varying from studio to one and two bed units with associated kitchenettes. Ground floor facilities include a reception, bar, restaurant, meeting rooms, gym and co-working space. The rooms on the upper floor are situated around a central lightwell that provides light to both the rooms and the ground floor lobby which has a 20m x 12m feature roof light overhead at first floor. The steel members to the roof light were specially designed with the glazing specialist to meet strict deflection criteria.

The structural form is that of an in-situ reinforced concrete frame with flat slab construction. The exposed concrete slabs, columns and core walls are incorporated into the interior design and thus, the quality of concrete finishes were achieved to an exceptionally high standard. The building is founded on reinforced concrete ground beams and pile caps spanning between reinforced concrete continuous flight auger piles to specialist design. The facade is a mix of SFS faced with a brick outer leaf and full height glazing/spandrel panel elements.

The development incorporates Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) in the form of a green roof and a rainwater harvesting system to collect run off from the roof and supply water to the WCs throughout the Aparthotel. The rainwater harvesting and attenuation tanks are constructed beneath the ground floor slab of the central void lobby.

After practical completion in August 2021, the Beckett Locke Aparthotel opened for business.
Great work from our engineers Fergal English, Gavin Murphy and their team.
See more photos here: https://lnkd.in/dWA6k_Z8

Congratulation to Cairn Homes , Kildare County Council County Council and Clonmel Enterprises Ltd on the opening of Lyreen Avenue – a new street serving the Mariavilla development in Maynooth, Co. Kildare. DBFL Consulting Engineers were delighted to provide civil, structural and transportation engineering services from planning stage through to construction. The 0.8km long street connects Moyglare Road to Dunboyne Road and is a key piece of infrastructure for cyclists, pedestrians and road users in north Maynooth.

It's fantastic to see the four 2-storey high reinforced concrete V Frames cast to the northern portion of Block 2 at Grand Canal Harbour in Dublin 8. These have been designed and detailed by our structural engineering team to support 7 residential levels and a roof terrace overhead. These architectural expressions of structure shall be a very prominent feature at the epicentre of the overall development, occurring above a unique water feature and immediately facing the pedestrian thoroughfare and northern plaza.

When complete, the Grand Canal Harbour development will deliver 596 apartments and over 7,000sqm of retail, shared working spaces, internal amenities and landscaped communal spaces, all sitting over a 7,000sqm, 1-storey deep basement. The unique character of this historic dockyard is also being maintained with the restoration and refurbishment of the Harbour Warehouse protected structure.

Well done to our client and the collective team on this project; Marlet Property Group, Burke-Kennedy Doyle Architects , Walls Construction and SMG Formwork.
Great work by Neylon and Borella
https://lnkd.in/eCJkdTQ

As part of Engineers Ireland Young Engineers Award 2021, DBFL engineers recently visited six schools across Dublin, Cork, Waterford and Kildare. Students had the opportunity to showcase their projects and listen and learn from presentations delivered by our engineers, both in person and online.

The Engineers Ireland STEPS Young Engineers Award competition encourages 3rd and 4th class pupils and their teachers to explore the world of engineering by developing an engineering project that would help improve their local community.

120 students took part across the six schools that DBFL Volunteer Engineers visited, and it was great to see the enthusiasm of the engineers of tomorrow.
Special thanks to all the schools that took part
Glor Na Mara - Waterford
Shanganamore National School - Kildare
Henrietta Street School - Dublin 1
St. Joseph's girls National School - Cork
St. Catherine’s Senior School - Dublin 7
Scoil Mhuire GNS - Dublin

To kick off National Bike Week at DBFL, staff were offered the opportunity to bring their bikes in for a service on-site from Gary Sheehan Mobile Bike Repair. It’s a great start to the week and particularly important that all our cyclists have their bikes in shape as we have a number of DBFL teams taking part in the Cycle Challenge this week, logging their journeys on two wheels every day from Sunday 12th September until next Saturday 18th September.

A special thank you to Michael and Cillian from Cycling Solutions Ireland for organizing this service through the Cycle Friendly Employer scheme.
https://www.cyclingsolutionsireland.ie/

DBFL are proud to see the main structure of the new dormitory building at Alexandra College is now completed.
The primary structure of this modern facility is in-situ concrete below the 1st floor, with precast concrete construction taking over above this point. Once completed, this 3 and 4 storey stepped building will be a high-quality facility containing a mix of 97 single and shared bedroom units.
This will provide accommodation for over 200 students and staff during the academic year. In addition, there are large open plan study halls, social spaces and recreational rooms on the ground floor.
To accommodate the open plan spaces and support the precast units above, DBFL designed up to 50m long continuous RC beams made up of spans which reached 9m in length. The ends of these beams perform as cantilevers of up to 2.4m in places which allows for a substantial set-back in the façade between the ground and first floors.
DBFL are delighted to have been part of the design process and look forward to the full completion of the project early next year.
Thanks to Henry J Lyons Architects Clancy Construction
and Alexandra College Dublin
more: https://lnkd.in/eZ5_ANT

Alexandra College New Dormitory – DBFL Consulting Engineers DBFL Consulting Engineers DBFL are proud to see the main structure of the new dormitory building at Alexandra College is now completed.

Going For Gold with Sustainable Transport Practices - Cycling Friendly Employer Ireland DBFL are no strangers to sustainable transport mobility and sustainable transport practices.

DBFL are currently providing Civil, Structural & PSDP services across four sites with SISK providing 261 new homes for Dublin City Council using rapid build modular technology. The project is comprised of four sites delivering a mix of one, two and three bedroom apartments and houses. The images show the site at Springvale Chapelizod which is well advanced. The other sites are located at Bonham Street D8, Cork Street D8 and Bunratty Coolock D5.

John Sisk & Son Ltd
Cunnane Stratton Reynolds
Delap & Waller

DBFL staff were up early braving the wind and rain last weekend supporting Pieta House by taking part in this year’s socially distant Darkness Into Light fundraiser. Thanks to all those staff who took part in the different locations, sharing ‘one sunrise together’ with over 140,000 other people who took part across the country. The generosity and support of everyone who signed up or donated means that Pieta’s free crisis helpline can continue to support people struggling with self-harm or suicidal thoughts. More than 80% of Pieta’s funding comes from public donations.
Pieta House, Preventing Su***de and Self Harm

For National Workplace Wellbeing Day last Friday 30th April DBFL challenged our staff to send us their best photo of what they can see from their home workplace. We had a great response from all corners of the country where our staff are working hard from home. Here is a collection of the beautiful images we received. The best photographs won Just Eat Ireland Vouchers or The Rolling Donut Treat Boxes.

Ard Cre from the Air.

DBFL is delighted to be delivering social housing for Galway City at Ard Cre.

This 77-unit development consists of a mix of two storey housing, three storey apartments and duplexes along with all infrastructure works.

This project was a successful bid made by DBFL as part of an integrated design team through the National Social Housing Frameworks.

DBFL designed all buildings and siteworks including roads, footpaths, drainage and water supply.

DBFL staff participated in Marchathon this year organised by TFI - Transport for Ireland Smarter Travel Workplaces initiative.
Our 14 teams of 69 steppers achieved an incredible 23,210,058 steps over 28 days. Enough to travel from our Dublin office to our Cork office 68 times or our Waterford office 104 times. DBFL also ranked in the Top 25 organisations.
See our Infographic below for more.

DBFL has been appointed to lead on the transport planning elements of Fingal County Council’s Sustainable Swords project. The project will underpin the compact growth of Swords as an Emerging City of scale of approximately 100,000 people by capitalising on the transformational opportunities offered by Metrolink, BusConnects, greenway development and the reallocation of road space on R132 for public transport, walking and cycling. Our work will help provide a platform for the reimagining of the historic town centre as an accessible, healthy, vibrant, and people-oriented beating heart of Swords.

DBFL are delighted to work in close collaboration with Turner & Townsend, KPMG Future Analytics , Nicholas de Jong Associates, CREATE, An Taisce Green Schools, SYSTRA, Altemar and Howley Hayes Conservation Architects and look forward to helping to realise the ambition for Swords set out by Fingal County Council.

Our STEPS team is really looking forward to delivering this programme over the next three days and thanks to Kate Cannon and Engineers Ireland for all the support.

DBFL’s STEPS Team paid a virtual visit to 60 primary school children across 2 classes last Monday as part of our involvement in Engineers Week. Our engineers shared their enthusiasm with an equally enthusiastic group of pupils from North Dublin Muslim NS. Here are just some of the wonderful structures created by students on the day with prizes given for those structures that scored the highest across Creativity , Strength, Height and Stability. Fantastic to see such engagement from the engineers of tomorrow.

Next week we are running our Engineering Your Future Transition Year 3-day programme, giving 30 students a small taste of what a career in engineering looks like, with a full and engaging programme of presentations, challenges and activities over 3 days.
see more: https://lnkd.in/e8HdHjc

Engineers Ireland

DBFL are delighted to be taking part in Engineers Ireland STEPS Engineering Your Future Programme.
Applications are now open to Transition Year students across Ireland. DBFL’s team of volunteers are running a virtual programme over 3 days in March
providing a range of exciting challenges and presentations for participating students to give them a real taste of engineering
and it’s applications in our everyday lives. For more information, visit: https://lnkd.in/dQaaXKF

The sites may be closed but we’re all still here, still servicing our clients, working together while staying apart.

DBFL are delighted to be providing civil and structural consulting services for the Strategic Housing Development at Two Oaks on Scholarstown Road, Dublin 16. The development by Ardstone Homes consists of 480 ‘Build to Rent’ apartments and 110 duplex units together with retail, café, creche and amenity facilities. The 1 and 2 bedroom apartment units will be constructed in eight blocks between 5-6 storey in height. Three of the blocks will be above a combined reinforced concrete basement with 180 car parking spaces. The duplex units will be constructed in nine three-storey blocks. The apartment blocks superstructure (with the exception of the penthouse) is to be constructed entirely with precast concrete walls and floors. The Amenity Block will comprise of gym, lobby, kitchen and lounge facilities. A retail/café/restaurant block will also be provided along with management facilities. The project is to be constructed to BREEAM Excellent Standard.

DBFL will be working alongside Walls Construction,
JFA John Fleming Architects O'Connor Sutton Cronin
B&C Contractors, and Mitchell & Associates Landscape Architects to bring this exciting new development to fruition.

Thanks to 3D Design Bureau

DBFL are pleased to see the completion of Coláiste Chiaráin, Croom Co. Limerick. The new 1000 pupil secondary school development on the 22-acre site consists of a multi wing two-storey building of almost 10,000m² which includes various classrooms, a sports hall and a general purpose area. Pitches provide for a variety of field sports with additional recreation and play areas on campus. The project also included the design and construction of a new 13m span vehicular access bridge connecting to an access road completed by Limerick County Council. DBFL provided civil, structural and transportation engineering services on the project from feasibility stage through planning submissions, detailed design, tender, construction, and handover. Read More: https://lnkd.in/eWjeGtP

O'Reilly Concrete
Healy Partners Architects
Limerick.ie
Limerick & Clare Education & Training Board

Coláiste Chiaráin, Croom Co. Limerick – DBFL Consulting Engineers DBFL Consulting Engineers DBFL are pleased to see the completion of Coláiste Chiaráin, Croom Co. Limerick.

As an organisation, DBFL’s priorities are to protect our staff, families and clients and to ensure business continuity whilst following all HSE Guidelines for the prevention of the spread of COVID-19.
Following Government announcements this week, our offices in Dublin, Cork and Waterford will be closing from this evening, with all staff operating remotely and fully equipped to do so. All staff have access to Microsoft Teams and other telecommunication tools, with all meetings being conducted by video or phone conference.

All our staff are fully available as usual so please continue to use the normal methods of communication to contact us, either by email or phone.

We look forward to working together with all our clients and design teams as we continue to steer our way through this challenging time.

DBFL proudly provided the structural and civil engineering design services for this landmark project at Aungier Street in the historic centre of Dublin city.
A major structural challenge for this project from the outset was to propose a structural scheme with enough flexibility to accommodate major changes to the structural load paths from prospective archaeological finds. During the enabling works phase, three major archaeological finds were uncovered including the remains of the two recorded monuments of the 11th century Church of Saint Peter and the theatre stage pit steps belonging to the Aungier Street Theatre which opened in March 1733.
The unforeseen and most significant of these is the Viking era stone structure dated AD1070 in the middle of the LIDL store footprint directly beneath columns supporting a 7 storey 300 bed student accommodation block above.
This presented a significant structural engineering challenge to relocate these columns and the supporting piled foundations so not to disturb the sensitive thousand-year-old masonry remains.
More at https://lnkd.in/ejUhBn3
Scape IRE JSA Architects John Paul Construction Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd Cathal Crimmins Architect Linesight JV Tierney

Last Friday the Minister for Housing, Local Government & Heritage, Darragh O’Brien, handed over the keys to the 2000th remediated house completed under the Pyrite Resolution Board’s Pyrite Remediation Scheme (PRS).

DBFL were delighted to be present at this milestone event. Since 2014 DBFL have provided consultancy services to the PRS and have been responsible for the specification and inspection for completion of over 60% of all properties remediated. During 2006/2007 DBFL established the engineering principles which explained the manner in which pyritic stone beneath the floor slabs acted in causing damage to the buildings and spearheaded the remedial specifications to resolve this widespread problem enabling owners to reoccupy their houses securely.
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Pictured (third from right) is one of DBFL’s Associate Directors, Martin Bennett along with representatives from Levins Associates, PMB Construction Ltd, the Pyrite Resolution Board and The Housing Agency Ireland
Darragh O'Brien TD

http://www.levins.ie/
http://www.pmbconstruction.ie/
https://www.pyriteboard.ie/
https://www.housingagency.ie/

DBFL hosted a Hospice Coffee Morning across our 3 offices and remotely yesterday to take part in raising much needed funds for St. Francis Hospice.

Staff at our Dublin, Cork and Waterford offices brought in cakes and enjoyed a safe socially distanced cup of coffee on their own floors, with donation boxes to collect funds. Our staff working remotely also got involved, baking at home and having a chat over a cuppa through Microsoft Teams. If you look closely at our photo collage you’ll see the amazing effort one of our transportation engineers went to in creating ‘traffic sign cakes’ for everyone!

A very different coffee morning from previous years but we found a way to safely come together for this good cause.

Established in 1992 with Bewley’s of Dublin the Hospice Coffee Morning has been raising much needed funds for 28 years. The event has raised over €39 million in that time and keeps growing every year with more and more organisations getting involved. Read more https://hospicecoffeemorning.ie/
Bewleys Coffee Ltd

Are you ready for Walktober? 58 workplaces across Ireland will be taking to the footpaths, roads and lanes from October 5th to be the top stepper and win prizes. Check if your workplace is registered today https://activetravellogger.ie/?fbclid=IwAR2detGeuIiCEvO4vucCnWneIv7Dq3cixsHGq2JfyV4at2J_gmklQfVugSA

Delighted to see the final stages progressing well at Printing House Square for Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland



McCullough Mulvin Architects

O'Mahony Pike Architects

Leonard Steel Ltd

Factfire Ltd

Works progressing well on Ballymoneen Phase 2 delivering 78 social housing units on behalf of Galway City Council

O'Briain Beary Architects

Varming Consulting Engineers
O'Reilly Hyland Tierney & Associates

REDscape Landscape & Urbanism