01 MECHANICAL
Mechanical services design
- Air conditioning and ventilation
- Chilled water and heating water
- Clean-room design
- Steam and condensate
- Combined heat and power
- Heat recovery, compressed air, gas
Mechanical, electrical & environmental design · Dublin 12 · since 2001
The half of the buildingyou stop seeing on opening day.
Ducts, switchgear, chilled water, sprinklers, clean-room air. We design the systems that make a building work, then watch them disappear behind a ceiling the day it opens. Sixteen of us, and a lot of buildings that were never allowed to stop.
The works window
Drag the window along the record.
Six buildings we have worked in. The window is where our work happens. On either side of it, the building carries on doing whatever it was already doing, because on nearly all of these projects that was the condition we were handed.
Works window
2017
Penneys, Liffey Valley
A new store of 5,000 sq m of retail space in Liffey Valley, Dublin.
Carrying on around us
A shopping centre in full trade
Mechanical and electrical services design.
2024 — Our own roof, Dublin 12. A solar array installed on our own building.
2023 — Primark Manufaktura, Łódź, Poland. A store fit-out inside a converted mill complex.
2023 — Primark Marseille. Replacement of the air handling units with the help of a helicopter.
2020 — Bausch + Lomb Area 9, Waterford. Steel going up for a new extension.
2016 — Bausch + Lomb FCE Phase 6, Waterford. Clean space expanded beside live production, with a new mezzanine plantroom.
2017 — Penneys, Liffey Valley. A new store of 5,000 sq m of retail space.
Before the ceiling closes
For about a fortnight, our drawings are the room.
Then the grid goes in, the lights are set, the floor is stocked, and every service we specified is behind a tile. That is the job working properly. It is also why we would rather show you this stage than a finished shot: this is the part you are actually buying.
Primark Manufaktura, Łódź, before opening.
What we design
Six disciplines, kept in one building.
We are not a single-service consultancy that subcontracts the rest. Mechanical, electrical, environmental, fire, project support and the studies that sit under them are all done by the same sixteen people, which is why they tend to agree with each other on site.
02 ELECTRICAL
Electrical services design
- HV, MV and LV power distribution
- Standby generation and UPS
- Lighting, internal and external
- Fire detection and aspiration
- Hazardous-area design
- Earthing and lightning protection
03 ENVIRONMENTAL
Environmental & energy
- Energy conservation analysis
- BREEAM and LEED assessment
- Building environment modelling
- Daylight and solar shading modelling
- Natural ventilation modelling
- BER certification, wind energy
04 FIRE
Fire protection
- Wet and dry sprinkler systems
- Water mist suppression
- Gas suppression
- Outline design to European, NFPA and FM Global
- Smoke clearance
05 PROJECT
Project services
- Front-end study and scope development
- Cost estimation, budgeting and control
- Procurement and vendor interface
- Technical support during construction
- Inspection, witnessing and BCAR handover
- BIM and 2D/3D drafting
06 STUDIES
Studies & reports
- Systems commissioning
- Electrical protection and discrimination
- Power reliability and quality
- Thermographic studies
- Energy consumption and conservation
- Building maintenance specifications
How we work
Simple, effective solutions. We have kept the phrase because it keeps being the job.
A contact-lens plant in Waterford that could not pause production. A store in Marseille that needed its air handling units changed without closing, so the replacements went in by helicopter. A five-storey Dublin office refurbished in two phases while it stayed let. The constraint is nearly always the same one, and it is what shapes the design.
- In operation since
- 2001
- Founded by
- Tony Delaney
- Team
- 16, Dublin
- Sectors
- Pharma, retail, commercial, healthcare, utilities
Where we work
Drawn in Dublin 12. Built in about fifty cities.
Most of our work is in Ireland. The rest went out from the same office to sites across Britain and mainland Europe, which is a strange thing for a sixteen-person team to be able to say, and the part we are proudest of.
Clients have included Bausch + Lomb, Primark and Penneys, MSD, DCU, UCD, ESB, RTÉ, Diageo, Teva, Irish Rail and the HSE.
DublinWaterfordCarlowKildare
GlasgowBerlinCologneAmsterdamMarseille
ŁódźMadridBarcelonaViennaBrussels
AntwerpGhentRotterdamThe HagueHamburg
MunichFrankfurtStuttgartDüsseldorfDortmund
EssenBremenHannoverDresdenNuremberg
BonnKielMannheimKarlsruheAugsburg
BielefeldBochumWuppertalKrefeldLuxembourg
LiègeHasseltGrazInnsbruckBratislava
LjubljanaGroningenNijmegenZwolleAlmere
Talk to us
Send us the constraint, not just the brief.
If the building has to keep producing, keep trading or keep its doors open while the work happens, tell us that first. It is the thing that decides the design, and it is the part we have spent since 2001 getting good at.
Email us about a projectOffice
Unit B4, Block B, Centrepoint Business Park,
Oak Drive, Dublin 12, D12 P791
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