Seymour Street, Lisburn, N. Ireland

ConForce have been awarded the subcontract to design, supply and install the post tensioning to a new housing, office and commercial development at Seymour St, Lisburn, Northern Ireland. The project includes a podium deck which carries transfer loads from upper floors, landscaping and emergency access and is carefully detailed to provide the required restraint releases from cores and retaining walls. There is also post tensioning to upper floors of up to 5 levels in two buildings which are built off the podium deck. The total area of post tensioned slabs is 6200m². The podium deck is 300 / 375mm thick and the upper floors are mostly 210mm thick. When submitting our tender we assisted by reducing considerably the depth of the podium deck thereby giving savings on the project cost and programme.

Conforce started on site in September 2009; the site programme will be approximately 5 months. We are delighted to secure this first project in Ireland for a Dunne Group company and hope it will be first of many more; adding significantly to our expanding nationwide portfolio which currently includes projects at various locations between London, Bristol and Edinburgh.