Dungarvan, Co. Waterford

Centrally located within the historic Georgian Town Centre of Dungarvan, the Scheme at Bridge Street redeveloped a vacant brown field lands occupied by the former Waterford Creamery, to provide 8,800 sq.m of Town Centre mixed use accommodation.

Its prominent location to the Town Square sought to provide an integrated and seamless transition from the original Georgian Town Sq. and streetscape via a pedestrianised gateway to the new Town Centre Shopping Area.

The four storey mixed use commercial / retail / residential scheme provides 8 units providing retail and commercial ‘town centre’ use at street level with 3 floors of residential accommodation above. The scheme constituted a significant development within the Town addressing the existing streetscape on two principle elevations – the south and east, whilst also providing two further urban edges to newly created pedestrian routes into the new Shopping Precinct.

The scheme incorporates 42 Apartments – 32 x 2 Bed and 10 x 1 Bed which have been arranged to the extremities of the site perimeter to address and strengthen the urban streetscape. The central area provides a communal Courtyard Garden at Level 1.

The basement accommodates dedicated car parking for the users and service areas for the building.

The development was designed to incorporate sustainable principles and incorporated as part of this strategy the inclusion of a wood chip burner / boiler as part of a centralised heating system, with supplemental solar panels to provide hot water to the entire development.

Awards

The Bridge Street Project was a 2008 Green Awards Finalist – Green Residential Building