Project Description

Client: Dublin City Council

Architect: Shaffrey Associates Architects

Date of Completion: 2018

No. 14 Henrietta Street is an old georgian building that once housed seventeen families. The building was first converted into a tenement in the late 1800’s. It is due to open this summer as a museum charting tenement life in Dublin.

Services provided by BMCE:

• Barrett Mahony acted as civil structural engineers for this refurbishment/conservation project, that included extensive strengthening works to the existing floors/stairs and the addition of a new feature stairs.

Some key project specific items relating to our services are as follows:

• Assessment of all existing floor structures and structural intervention works to upgrade to meet
  future loading requirements.
• Extensive refurbishment works to the existing building including strengthening works to original
  timber stairs, new openings and link to new rear extension.
• Design of new rear extension building and external areas.

Photo Credit -Paul Tierney Photography –  http://paultierney.com/