We were delighted to be awarded the Commercial – Over €20m for Spencer Place and BIM Excellence – Over €50m for ESB Project Fitzwilliam at the recent ICE Awards.
These awards are a testament to our team’s commitment and dedication to excellence in our field. Congratulations to all finalists and fellow award winners!
We are thrilled to be shortlisted for four categories at the upcoming 2024 Irish Construction Excellence Awards.
We are incredibly proud of our team, who have demonstrated excellence in the following categories:
• Leisure Tourism Project– Midleton Distillery Experience
• Commercial – Spencer Place
• BIM Excellence – ESB Headquarters
• Innovation in Construction – Digitalising a Paper Based SBO Record Process
Thank you to our clients for entrusting us with your projects, and congratulations to the other nominees. We are looking forward to attending the awards this May!
We are proud to announce that our UK team has been honoured with the 2023 Growing Business Award by the British and Irish Trading Alliance, BITA. This award was recently presented at the prestigious BITA Networking and Awards Ceremony at the historic St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London, which showcased the best in Irish and British business.
This award is presented to companies that have demonstrated high growth in both revenue and profit over the past year while operating in the UK market for a minimum of three years.
Since commencing trading in the UK, our team’s dedication to excellence in all aspects of our operations has culminated in achieving this accolade. We want to thank all our staff, clients, stakeholders, supply chain and BITA, who are dedicated to strengthening business ties between the UK and Ireland.
PJ Hegarty are proud to have picked up the Residential Project of the Year at the 2023 Irish Construction Industry Awards.
Spencer Place Residential is a sustainable development nestled in the heart of Dublin’s Docklands. The development, providing 329 build-to-rent apartments and 64 co-living units, boasts ample amenity space, gardens, and shared community facilities.
PJ Hegarty is thrilled to have taken away two awards at the prestigious Irish Construction Excellence Awards at the gala ceremony in the Convention Centre Dublin on Thursday 27th April.
Our first award of the night was the ‘Fit Our or Refurbishment Over €30m‘ award for refurbishing and developing the protected building, Tropical Fruit Warehouse.
This project was notable due to our approach to the off-site repair and refurbishment of all thirty original trusses from the 1890s, each spanning 14m and weighing over 1000kg. We also successfully undertook restoration work on the protected warehouse structure, salvaging materials such as natural slate, limestone rubble walls, and original brickwork for later reuse. The project included constructing a cantilevered steel structure above the warehouse and constructing a 5-storey reinforced concrete core in-situ to support the new frame.
Another notable accomplishment was the design and installation of a modern bespoke twin-skin glass facade, creating the illusion of a floating glass box above the warehouse. Overcoming additional challenges, such as piling in three phases, dealing with contaminated ground, dewatering a double-basement, and ensuring extreme tolerances and deflection control for the steel frame to accommodate the glass cladding, demonstrated our ability to negotiate complex hurdles successfully. Furthermore, we skillfully reinstated the warehouse roof beneath the newly constructed glass-clad structure.
We want to thank our client IPUT Real Estate and architects Henry J Lyons, sub-contractors, and supply chain for their support throughout this project, especially during the difficult periods we faced as an industry during the pandemic.
Brian Mooney, John Gavigan, Danny Rankin (Surety Bonds), Declan Kelly (IPUT), Eoin Flanagan (Henry J Lyons) & Deirdre O’Kane
Our second award of the night was the ‘Health, Safety & Wellbeing Initiative – T/O Over €200m‘ award for our “Don’t Walk By” safety programme.
Our winning initiative, the “Don’t Walk By” safety program, emphasises the practice of good daily safety habits by all our staff and site personnel. We have found that promoting safety through conversation is one of the most effective methods. Our initiative focuses on the practical aspects of having positive safety conversations. We understand that only some naturally feel comfortable addressing safety concerns, so we enlisted the help of external sources to coach and mentor our staff. These educational mentorship sessions provided valuable insights into coaching, hazard identification, and effective engagement with on-site personnel, resulting in positive outcomes.
Our initiative also aims to dispel misconceptions about addressing unsafe observations and build confidence to do so. Since implementing this program, we have seen a significant increase in safety interactions and observations. The feedback from our staff has been overwhelmingly positive, offering us valuable insights on how we can further support our team in taking ownership of safety.
Brian Mooney, Karen Killoran (Arthur Cox LLP), Sinead Gaines, Shane McDonnell and Deirdre O’Kane
The Gala in the Convention Centre Dublin was an outstanding success. Our team and guests had a fantastic night, and hearing our name announced for both awards made it even more special.
PJ Hegarty is delighted to announce that ESB Head Office, Project Fitzwilliam won the Building Category and the Overall Winner at the 40th Irish Concrete Society Awards for 2022. The awards evening and annual dinner were held on Saturday, 25th of March, in the Clayton Hotel, Burlington Road, Dublin 4.
Dave Casey, Director at PJ Hegarty, commented,
“I am delighted for all the PJ Hegarty Construction Team, our design team and the supply chain for getting recognised for their hard work and commitment to delivering such an iconic building. This project brought many challenges because of its scale and location in the heart of Dublin City Centre. The commitment and collaboration of our team in delivering all aspects of the project were exemplary. Well done to everyone involved.”
The ESB head office building on Fitzwilliam Street Lower is a stunning commercial building in the heart of Dublin city centre. The 45,000m² development comprises two commercial office buildings. The protected historic Georgian houses on Mount Street were restored and refurbished into modern, high-quality residential properties, maintaining their protected status.
This was a complex construction project in an extremely busy city centre environment, so PJ Hegarty Stakeholder Management Strategy was crucial to its success. We liaised regularly with city authorities, other public bodies and building occupiers and managed the environmental and structural monitoring regimes of adjacent protected structures and surroundings.
The development involved the construction of an exposed concrete frame to a ‘special finish’ standard, as well as challenging precast cladding and hand-laid brick installation. PJ Hegarty was also tasked with high-specification internal finishes to the commercial areas and complete residential fit-out.
We want to congratulate our construction and design teams involved with the project; this is deserved recognition for an iconic project in Dublin City Centre.
ESB
Grafton Architects
O’Mahony Pike Architects
O’Connor Sutton Cronin
Axiseng
Lafferty
Linesight
Michael Slattery Associates
Buro Happold
EASLAR
BSLA
Shaffrey Architects
Maurice Johnson Partners
