COADY Architects, as part of Stewart Construction Design & Build team, has commenced work on the construction of Ireland’s next generation business hub at Dublin Airport Central, a new business campus being developed by the DAA located directly opposite Terminal 2. Phase 1 will provide 20,000SQM of Grade A, LEED ‘Gold’ Certified flexible office space, an elevated pedestrian walkway with direct connections to the terminal buildings and a significant area of landscaped public realm within the campus. The project is programmed for completion by March 2019.
COADY Architects, as part of Stewart Construction Design & Build team, has commenced work on the construction of Ireland’s next generation business hub at Dublin Airport Central, a new business campus being developed by the DAA located directly opposite Terminal 2. Phase 1 will provide 20,000SQM of Grade A, LEED ‘Gold’ Certified flexible office space, an elevated pedestrian walkway with direct connections to the terminal buildings and a significant area of landscaped public realm within the campus. The project is programmed for completion by March 2019.
Architectural Technologist BSc
& BIM Manager
Dublin Airport Central
Scope_ Competition & Tender Documentation
Location_ Dublin, Ireland
Client_ Dublin Airport Authority
Value_ 60 Million Euro
Year_ 2017 - 2018
This was my first major project with Coady Architects. My role in this project as junior Architectural Technologist and Bim project coordinator proved to be a very challenging but rewarding experience. I was involved from the very beginning of the competition stage to full construction. The project is located opposite Terminal 2. Phase 1 will provide 20,000SQM of Grade A, LEED ‘Gold’ Certified flexible office space, an elevated pedestrian walkway with direct connections to the terminal buildings and a significant area of landscaped public realm within the campus. The project is programmed for completion by March 2019.
Description
The first task was to assess the planning drawings designed by Henry J Lyons and highlight any possible issues regarding building regulation compliance. This involved modeling 5 separate buildings in Revit including a link bridge to Terminal 2.
See examples of some of my work produced for competition stage on DAC1 below including third-party CGI Renderings of my Revit Building & Landscape models.
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On a successful competition submission, we were awarded the highest score out of numerous other submissions. We wasted no time a quickly got started on the construction drawings. As part of my role as BIM project coordinator, I had to ensure our models along with the structural & MEP models where constantly up to date to ensure the entire design team was working with the most up to date drawings. Some other tasks included ensuring that any issues regarding shared coordinates or clashes were highlighted and properly rectified. This was a strict level 2 project in that the contractor was building from the model and that later would be used for facilities management, so it was vital to model accurate.
See examples of some of the construction drawings I produced along with views for coordination.
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The employers information requiremnets document on DAC1 required a Project Information Model (PIM) of all information transferred as outlined in PAS 1192-2:2013 and in accordance with the RIBA Plan of Work stages of a project. This meant that we had to provide a uni-class code for each object/component in the model which would then be used by the client/building operator for facilities management.
See below a time-lapse posted to youtube by Stewart Construction early 2018 of progress on site.
This was an extremely challanging project in terms of accurate modeling and cordination through fully federated models. At times clash reports were being sent through with thousands of clashes with each having to be resolved, but all being said this work resulted in a very smooth construction periods with minimum RFI's from the contractor which means time saved and a project completed on time and within budget.