Addressing Complex Monitoring Challenges at the Tropical Fruit Warehouse
In 2020, Lloyds Datum was appointed to monitor construction on the Tropical Fruit Warehouse, Dublin.
PJ Hegarty contracted Lloyds Datum to monitor development works on an HJL Architecture-designed scheme at Sir John Rogerson’s Quay in Dublin.
Designed by Henry J Lyons Architects, the scheme delivered more than 80,000 sq. ft. of unique river front offices and included a new six-storey office block at the rear overlooking an existing public square.
The original warehouse building was planned to be sensitively restored, and the design incorporated the addition of two floating, fully glazed office floors which cantilever over the protected structure providing panoramic views over the River Liffey.
Lloyds Datum were contracted to remotely and manually monitor the surrounding buildings for stability and to carry out environmental monitoring.
Datum’s role in this process involved the delivery of highly accurate and compliant systems that met the needs of the planning requirements for the commercial offices. This included the monitoring of the existing surrounding buildings that include the Clayton Hotel, Three Mobile Ireland, Deloitte Digital and preservation of the listed building, The Tropical Fruit Warehouse.
The monitoring exercises provided vital control measures to ensure stability of the surrounding super structures, so they remained unaffected by the piling and construction phases of this project.
Lloyds Datum specified equipment including a Leica Geosystems TS16 for 3D Monitoring, nine continuous vibration monitoring stations, three continuous noise monitoring stations, two continuous tilt sensors and four dust monitoring stations.
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Our client IPUT was impressed with how we facilitated and controlled Molesworth Street’s monitoring requirements. This project has several critical receptors that could be impacted on, due to the works requirements. Datum provides the level of expertise necessary for an all-in-one package from design to completion.
The friendly support from Mark and his team complement the works process, ensuring our site management have full access to resulting data. Without this, we cannot review, analyse then predict how invasive the works could be, and that raises risk to an unacceptable level.
We’ve installed monitoring equipment for PJH on several high-profile projects over the years and so we have a great rapport with their team. They go the extra mile to ensure their sites adopt a healthy monitoring regime. Their confidence in our services and state-of-the-art equipment brings the highest level of reliability to each project. We are delighted to be a part of the PJH team on this project.
