Engineering the Past to Meet the Needs of the Future: best practice installation of mechanical and electrical services into historic buildings
A study day presented by the Irish Georgian Society and the Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht, Rural and Regional Affairs, in association with the CIF Register of Heritage Contractors on Tuesday 13th June 2017 at Russborough, County Wicklow.
This CPD study day will be of major interest to all built environment professionals and services contractors who have to install and upgrade mechanical and electrical services in historic buildings and attendance is recognised as Continuing Professional Development by the Construction Industry Federation, Engineers Ireland and the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland. It will contain presentations on best professional and contractor practice from the UK and Ireland in this crucial, but little discussed, area of building conservation. The speakers will show the benefits of inter-disciplinary working amongst conservation professionals, project architects, building services engineers and contractors. This study day is a rare chance to hear about and discuss detailed, technical case studies of sensitively designed and fitted services. The event will draw on current experience on site at Russborough, where a major services upgrade project is underway, part-funded by the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.
STUDY DAY TIMELINE
8.30am Registration & tea/coffee
9am Welcome: Eric Blatchford, CEO, Russborough
9.10am Introduction: Donough Cahill, Executive Director, Irish Georgian Society
Session I: Chair, Sean McElligott, President, CIF Mechanical Engineering and Building Services Contractors Association (MEBSCA) & Director, Lynskey Engineering
9.20am The Integration of Services in Historic Buildings, Stuart MacPherson, Partner with Irons Foulner Consulting Engineers, Scotland and external Professor of Building Services Engineering at Heriot-Watt University
10am The Installation of Building Services into Historic Buildings – some matters to think about ….., Andrew More, Senior Building Services Engineer, Conservation Department, Historic England
10.40am Russborough, County Wicklow: phase one M&E upgrades to country house as museum by Niamh Kiernan, Sheehan and Barry Architects and Lisa Edden, consulting structural engineer
11.20am Q&A with Sean McElligott
11.30am Coffee Break
Session II: Chair, Martin Colreavy, Principal Advisor, Built Heritage, Architectural Policy & Strategic Infrastructure, Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Ireland
12 noon National Gallery of Ireland: retrofitting 21st environmental control systems into an historic museum, David Brennan, Principal, Building Design Partners and Kevin Blackwood, Principal, Kevin Blackwood Associates
12.50pm Q&A with Martin Colreavy
1 -2.30pm LUNCH and TOURS
Session III: Chair, Dr Nessa Roche, Architectural Conservation Advisor, Architectural Heritage Advisory Unit, Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht, Rural and Regional Affairs and board member of Register of Heritage Contractors
2.30pm 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin Tenement Museum: townhouse as museum, Grainne Shaffrey, Director and Tomas O’Connor, Associate, Shaffrey Associates Architects and Edith Blennerhasset, Associate Director, Arup
3.10pm Royal Academy of Arts, London, Michael Stone, CEO Designer Group
3.40pm St. Catherine’s Church, Meath Street, Dublin 1: church continuing as place of worship, James Howley, Howley Hayes Architects
4.10pm Kilmainham Courthouse: courthouse as visitor and interpretative centre, Brendan Dervan, Managing Director Dublin, Cundall Engineering
4.40pm Q&A with Dr Nessa Roche
4.50pm Close and thank you, Emmeline Henderson, Assistant Director & Conservation Manager, Irish Georgian Society
5pm Study Day Finishes
ABSTRACTS The Integration of Services in Historic Buildings, Professor Stuart MacPherson, Irons Foulner Consulting Engineers will discuss the issues around the integration of services orking in design teams with architects and structural engineers. His presentation explores some of the concerns aroundinstallations the subject, in historic gives buildings. advice on Hekey will considerations give an engineer s that apply perspective to most historicon w buildings and gives a frank account of where both engineers and architects could improve their general approach and their design processes to achieve better outcomes.
The installation of building services into historic buildings - some matters to think about…, Andrew C. More, Senior Building Services Engineer, Conservation Department, Historic England. More will explore the following: some fundamental concepts, recording what exists, what to do when a system fails, the re-use of existing equipment, calculations and rules-of- thumb, installation and aesthetics, controls and operation and some electrical matters. These will be based on real life examples with plenty of photographs and draw on his work as Senior Building Services Engineer at Historic England.
Russborough, County Wicklow: phase one M&E upgrades to country house as museum, Niamh Kiernan, Sheehan and Barry Architects and Lisa Edden, consulting structural engineer The services installation in Russborough House required upgrading in many areas including electrical installation, life safety systems such as the fire detection system and lighting for evacuation procedures as well as the heating installation. In the past, due to financial constraints, the services had been upgraded in a piecemeal manner with the result that the
services were determined to be at the end of their useful life. The building was lacking in many areas of health and safety which required immediate attention. A schedule of upgrading works was undertaken to address these concerns. A proposal to upgrade the existing heating system was introduced in order to protect the internal environmental conditions of the building and the historic artefacts contained therein. Phase 1 of these works included the upgrading of services to the attic areas and the first floor of the main house at Russborough, with a proposed Phase 2, centering on the ground floor of the main house, expected to commence in October 2017. Structurally, a great deal of work was undertaken to ensure that there would be no cutting into historic structural fabric and to ensure that new services remained hidden. A programme of remedial work took place to rectify some structural issues associated with the roof structure and the first floor joists supporting the historic ceilings below. The rooms affected by the works were redecorated and the presentation of the bedrooms and the first floor landing was reinterpreted.
National Gallery of Ireland: Bringing a 19th century cultural institution into the 21st century David Brennan, Principal, Building Design Partners and Kevin Blackwood, Principal, Kevin Blackwood Associates and Alice Bentley, NGI Project Architect, Blackwood & Associates. In 2006 the OPW appointed Heneghan Peng Architects to lead a multi-disciplinary design team to review the condition and organisation of the National Gallery of Ireland. Blackwood Associates were the Conservation Architects for the project and BDP the Building Services Engineers. The brief was to transform the historic wings of the institution in order to meet the demands of an international standard 21st century gallery. The most immediate concerns included water ingress through roofs, and unstable environmental and climatic conditions, which threatened both the fabric of the historic buildings, and the security of the exhibits. The original 1860s wing had been built with an early ventilation system, innovative for its time, but any benefits of this had been lost in the succession of extensions, adaptations and interventions of the subsequent century and a half. The resulting complex of rooms was confusing for the visitor, and issues of orientation, access and presentation had to be addressed new air conditioning and environmental control systems. The challenge for the entire design teamin a holistic was how approach to integrate to the these design. substantial BDP s building new elements services into engineers the fabric des ofigned the building the extensive while retaining the integrity of the interiors and setting. Close communication and collaborative problem solving within this team have been fundamental to the success of the design process. The project demonstrates that historic buildings can be sensitively restored and adapted to meet stringent environmental requirements, while providing exciting contemporary places to visit and work, and retaining their cultural significance and historic integrity.
14 Henrietta Street, Dublin Tenement Museum: townhouse as museum, Grainne Shaffrey, Director and Tomas O’Connor, Associate, Shaffrey Associates Architects and Edith Blennerhasset, Associate Director, Arup
Starting out with little or no physical collection, the house, with its many layers and vestiges of Oneformer of theoccupation principal was concepts a (the) of primary the Henrietta artefact. Street In this Tenement project, Museum the walls, is buildingfloors, old as gas artefac pipes,t . all have stories to tell. A major challenge of the project has been to integrate all the essential services, fire, structure 9 s fireplaces, infrastructure along withinto thisfragments rich library of distemper, of memory. linoleum, There wallpaper are perhaps – a few distinctive aspects of the project and then a few more which hopefully are of more wider and transferable value. The floor zone is working really hard in containing discretely the network of services, heating, structure and fire protection. Identifying a suitable location for the principal vertical services riser and then planning and designing it was a– key challenge.– The use of wireless technology has helped in minimising chasing and loss of finishes and fabric. Both during design stage and construction, very close collaboration between architect and engineers and between main contractor and the M&E sub-contractors has been intense and essential. Identifying a
coherent architectural vision and then sustaining it as the curatorial vision evolved and influenced the design decision created a very unique dynamic. The presentation will set the context for the works, with a brief history of the project and describing the design approach and principles which guided us in our decision making and detailed design. We will look in some detail at how architect and engineer worked together in developing and agreeing solutions. We will also focus on some of the bespoke solutions developed in response to building standards and codes. Some of these may be more transferable
ortance of collaborationthan others. Weand willteam probably work. also touch on some of the frustrations and roadblocks we couldn t get through. An overriding message in our presentation will be the imp Royal Academy of Arts, London, Michael Stone, CEO Designer Group home of The Royal Academy of Arts since 1867. Designer Group Engineering Contractors were engagedBurlington by House the design is located team in to Piccadilly carry out in the the installation heart of London s of the West Mechanical End. It and has Electrical been the services at Burlington House in 2015. No 6. Burlington Gardens, which was formerly the Museum of Mankind, is being joined to the original building in a £50 million refurbishment which will see the formation of new gallery spaces along with a 260-seat auditorium. David Chipperfield are the lead Architects for the project which is due to be completed at the end of 2017. ARUP are the MEP consulting engineers, they have designed new air conditioning, heating systems along with a complete new electrical installation in both buildings.
St. Catherine’s Church, Meath Street, Dublin 1: church continuing as place of worship, James Howley, Howley Hayes Architects The Church of St Catherine in Meath Street, was completed in 1859 to the designs of J J phase of important internal decoration was added during the 1920s in the Arts and Crafts style, makingMcCarthy, the who church is regarded an artistic as one treasure or Ireland s trove leading of carved architects stone andof the stained Gothic glass. Revival. Following A second a serious fire caused by arson in January 2012, the interior was gutted and many of the artworks including a rare Telford organ were threatened. A rigorous conservation project carried out within three phases under the direction of Howley Hayes Architects, preserved almost all of the treasures and uncovered others that had been lost to insensitive interventions during the latter half of the twentieth century. As part of the conservation programme the building services were almost totally renewed with all pipe runs and cable ways concealed within the fabric and a sophisticated, multi programme lighting scheme installed to create different interior atmospheres to meet different liturgical requirements, and highlight the architectural and artistic beauty of the church. James Howley of Howley Hayes Architects will present the project and describe how the work was procured and the new building services were integrated so successfully into the building.
Kilmainham Courthouse: courthouse as visitor interpretative centre, Brendan Dervan, Managing Director Dublin, Cundall Engineering Kilmainham Courthouse, which dates to 1820 was designed by architect, William Farrell (dob is unknown d.1851). Located adjacent to the courthouse is Kilmainham Gaol, which was opened in 1796, and was designed by the architect, John Trail (c.1725-1801) with later major mid-19th century modifications– by architect, John McCurdy (c1824-1885). The historic Kilmainham Gaol attracts over 300,000 visitors annually and in an endeavour to accommodate these large visitor numbers Kilmainham Courthouse has been restored and converted into a new Visitor Centre for Kilmainham Gaol. Commissioned by the OPW, Cundall were the M&E consultants responsible for the responsible for the design, tendering and site monitoring all M&E services including: heating, ventilation and public health services plus the full scope of electrical services including; Power, Lighting, Telecommunications, Fire / Security Systems and a new passenger Lift. Kilmainham Gaol Visitor Centre was awarded the Irish Building and Design Awards Building - Project of the Year 2017.
BIOGRAPHIES Blackwood Associates Architects is a Grade 1 Conservation practice, established in 1996, since when it has established itself as one of the leading conservation practices in the country. The practice has executed a rich variety of projects ranging from major works to important public buildings, and National Monuments, to small interventions in order to adapt, or rescue, lesser known historic structures. Kevin Blackwood is an architect with a broad experience in the conservation and adaptation of historic buildings and sites. As well as managing the practice he has been responsible for the design and project management of a series of important public commissions. After graduation he trained with the National Monuments Service of the Office of Public Works, during which time he worked on the conservation and restoration of Barryscourt Castle, a substantial medieval keep in Co. Cork, amongst other important buildings in state care.
Alice Bentley is an architect with broad construction and design experience, united by an interest in the nature of materials, sustainable design, and a particular interest in landscape and the symbiosis of buildings and the natural world. Alice joined Blackwood Associates in 2008, since when she has broadened and developed her conservation experience being responsible for a number of Conservation, Development and Management Plans for important historic sites. Since 2008 she has acted as project conservation architect for the refurbishment of the historic wings of the National Gallery of Ireland.
Edith Blennerhassett, BE MUBC CEng MCIBSE MIEI is a Director at Arup with over 30 years of experience of providing high quality building services design solutions for a wide range of projects. Edith is passionate about her work and has particular expertise in sustainable design and working with historic buildings. Edith believes that the best solutions are achieved through the sharing of a common goal and close collaboration between clients, design team members and other construction professionals through all stages of the design and construction process. Edith has lectured extensively in the UK and Ireland on energy efficiency and the role which good building services design can play in achieving excellent buildings
David Brennan e is a Registered Brennan has led is a Principal at BDP and head of BDP s Dublin studio. H significantConsulting numberEngineer of with projects years in the experience Education, working Healthcare in design and consultancy.Workplace sectors have been successfullyBDP s Building completed. Services Engineering He has actively team promoted in Dublin sustainablefor the past building years design during and which has time been a involved in the design of a number of landmark low energy buildings in Ireland.
Donough Cahill, MSc. Executive Leadership, Postgrad. Dip. Building Conservation, Postgrad. Dip. Heritage Management is the Executive Director of the Irish Georgian Society. He oversees the strategic and day-to-day operations of the IGS and of its Dublin based office through working with the Iris body IGS Inc., and with trusteesh Georgian of the Foundation sUK based Irish Committee Georgian Trust. of Management, its standing committees and working groups, with the Chicago based office of the Society s US charitable Martin Colreavy, Dip Arch BArch Sc MSc Urban Design MRIAI is Chief Architectural Advisor/ Principal Officer in the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs is head of built heritage, architectural policy and strategic infrastructure with specific responsibility for the Government Policy on Architecture Implementation programme, Heritage Policy/Planning and Advisory Unit, Built Heritage Capital Investment Funding, National Landscape Strategy and bodies such as Waterways Ireland and the Heritage Council. Previously within the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government (DEHLG) he was involved in various policy documents on Architecture and Urban Design, such as Quality Housing for Sustainable Communities 2007. He represents Ireland as state party on the Joint Programming Initiative, JPI Governing Board for Cultural Heritage Research within Europe.
Previously within the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, Martin has held positions as RIAI professional practice examiner 2004-2007, RIAI Honorary Treasurer 2008-2009, RIAI Vice- President 2010 and Chair RIAI Urban Design Committee 2010-2015. He is an Honorary Academician of the Academy of Urbanism, an organisation which promotes exemplary practice in quality urbanism throughout Great Britain and Ireland.
Brendan Dervan He is founder and Managing Director of Dervan Engineering Consultants which was established in 1999 and whichis a became Chartered Cundall Engineer (Ireland) with over Ltd in 2016.years experience After completing in Building an electricalServices. apprenticeship with the Office of Public Works (OPW) in 1982 Brendan went on to study electrical engineering in DIT (1982-86). While working with the OPW he worked in a number of historic buildings including Dublin Castle and the Customs House. He joined Delap and Waller as an engineering technician in 1986 and became a director in 1996. During his time there he worked on a number of listed buildings including Russborough House, Bunratty Castle, the Company has provided M&E consultancy services on a number of Conservation & RestorationBlackrock Church, type projects Dublin including:and St Colman s Royal Church,Hospital Claremorris.Kilmainham Under(2002 Brendan s- Present); Dire Kilmaictorship,nham Gaol Visitors Centre (2013 - present); Kimmage Manor (2016); Richmond Barracks (2016); Wicklow Former Garda Station (2015); Trinity Church, Gardiner Street (2009); Peace & Reconciliation Centre, Glencree (2001). Brendan is passionate about the sensitive upgrading of M&E services in Irelands historic buildings. He brings a mix of practical, engineering and project management skills which has developed throughout his career.
Lisa Edden, Consulting Structural Engineer, BEng CEng MIStructE MIEI studied civil engineering at Bristol University and worked in London for eight years on all building types from Georgian town houses to multi-storey office blocks. During this time she obtained her charter-ship as a Structural Engineer. She moved to Ireland in 1994 and worked on a variety of civil and structural engineering projects with both P. H. McCarthy & Partners and Ove Arup & Partners before setting up her own practice in 1998. Since then, she has been involved in the structural engineering aspects of the repair and rehabilitation C15th /16th Tower houses and numerous C 17th - 20th vernacular and historic buildings ranging from follies to Palladian houses. More recently she has been involved in the assessment of medieval ruinous structures with regard to stabilisation, conservation and repair as ruins. She also has significant experience of participating in the interdisciplinary analysis of buildings and their environs in the context of policy formulation for Conservation Plans. Over the last decade Lisa has attended Building Conservation master classes at West Dean College Sussex, UK. She co researched and wrote published 2010 by DoEHLG (now DAHG) part of the Architectural Advice series and assisted in Roofs – a guide toShe the isrepair an active of historic committee roofs member of Engineers Ireland Conservation Group working towards the recognition of Conservationthe compilation Engineering of the advice in Ireland series and guide she Places is also of the Worship . current Chair of the Building Limes Forum Ireland.
Emmeline Henderson, Conservation Manager & Assistant Director, BA MA Postgrad Arch Dip Rec MUBC manages the I Conservation Education Programme to include
rish Georgian Society ss, its online conservation skills and academic registers, asthe welldelivery as otherof the seminars,Society s Traditional conferences Building and study & Conservation days relating Skills to in the Action conservation Exhibition, and its Conserving Your Period House course promotionJames Howley of Ireland s is a founding architecture director and of decorative Howley Hayes arts. Architects, a practice recognised for its work in both contemporary design and the sensitive conservation of historic buildings. The practice has been responsible for the conservation, adaptation and reuse of numerous buildings of national and international cultural significance, many of which have received RIAI, RIBA, IGS, Opus or Europa Nostra Awards. Under the RIAI Conservation Accreditation System, Howley
Hayes Architects is a Conservation Practice Grade 1 and James Howley a Conservation Architect Grade 1. To date the practice has been responsible for over two hundred conservation reports, plans and feasibility studies for clients such as the Heritage Council, the World Monument Fund, the Department of Art Heritage & the Gaeltacht, the Office of Public Works plus numerous local authorities and private clients. James Howley is the author of The Follies and Garden Buildings of Ireland, published by Yale University Press and he is a regular contributor to the Irish Arts Review. In 2011 he produced Conservation of Places of Public Worship, with contributions from Edith Blennerhassett, Lisa Edden and David Lawrence, for the then DAHG as part of the
Department sNiamh Kiernan Advice BArch Series. BArch Sc MSc MRIAI, ARB is an Architect at Sheehan & Barry Architects Ltd, a Grade One Conservation Practice. With Sheehan and Barry Architects she has worked on the restoration and refurbishment of a number of protected structures in Ireland such as Russborough House, Co. Wicklow, and other protected structures in private ownership such as 130 Thomas Street, the oldest recorded house in Dublin. Previously, Niamh worked in London for six years with PDP/LDN on the refurbishment of various historic buildings in the city such as the former Naval and Military Club and the former American Club on Piccadilly and refurbishments of a number of listed buildings in Conservation Areas around London. In 2015, she moved to the in-house Estates team at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, a Grade 1 Listed Park and Garden and UNESCO World Heritage Site where she was in charge of a restoration project at the Princess of Wales Conservatory and of the refurbishment of a series of protected structures on site. Niamh obtained a Masters in the Conservation of Historic Buildings from the University of Bath in 2015.
Stuart MacPherson BSc MSc MBA PhD CEng FCIBSE is a Director and the principal designer at of often technically demanding projects, many of them involving the conservation, restoration orIrons conversion Foulner Consultingof historic buildings.Engineers. He He is has an honoraryover years Professor experience of Heriot-Watt of working Univers on a varietyity and the non-executive chair of the Royal Academy of Engineering Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design.
Sean McElligott graduated from UCD 1991 with Honours degree in Civil Engineering. Following this he worked in the UK with Mott McDonald Consulting Engineers undertaking Bridge Design. On his return to Ireland he set up an underground / CCTV survey company (USA Ltd) with some engineers from UCD class. In 1999 he sold company shareholding and the same year he started Lynskey Engineering. In 2006 he joined board as Company Director. McElligott has building services experience in: pharmaceutical, industrial, commercial, healthcare, data centre and the heritage sectors. In February 2017 he commenced his two year term as president Mechanical and Electrical Contractors Association (MEBSCA). ofAndrew the CIF s More is a Chartered Engineer. He is a committee member of the Chartered Insitutuion of Building CIBSEis) a graduate of the University of Liverpool s School of Building Engineeringn mostly public and sector buildings, many of them of historic importance ranging from Apsley House, Brodsworth Services Hall, Cornwood ( Church, Heritage Dover Group . Castle, He Eltham has over Palace, forty years Hardham experience Chapel and of works Kenwood i House.
Graeme Parker Tech Eng Dip BEng MSc CEng MIEI, Director (Mechanical), IN2 Engineering Design Partnership has over 16 years of experience in the Building Services Engineering industry. He joined IN2 Engineering Design Partnership in 2004, as mechanical project engineer, and was made Director in 2016. Graeme has been responsible for the successful completion of a number of conservation projects including Russborough House, the Goethe Institute, Merrion Square, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, and large scale projects such as Dublin Airports Terminal 1 Extension. Since joining IN2 Graeme has completed his Masters in Energy Management and utilises this knowledge to provide easily operated complex mechanical
solutions for his projects. systems and solar thermal systems Graeme s specialist experience includes biomass systems, geothermal Nessa Roche holds a PhD in architectural conservation from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. She has worked as an architectural conservation advisor with the Built Heritage and Architectural Policy Section of the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (and its previous iterations) for 17 years. She was involved in the preparation and publication of the Architectural Heritage Protection Guidelines for Planning Authorities. She has published several books and booklets (including The Legacy of Light: A History of Irish Windows (Wordwell, 1999), and Windows of the Advice Series as well as editing Places of Worship) and has written articles and lectured widely on historic windows and window glass, fanlights and cabins, including authoring these entries in volume IV of Art and Architecture of Ireland (Royal Irish Academy, 2015).
Shaffrey Associates Architects, RIAI Grade 1 Conservation Architects Established 50 years ago in 1967 by Patrick and Maura Shaffrey our work today covers a broad range and scale of architectural practice, including design and conservation of new and existing buildings, urban design, and research. Most projects are set within an existing (historic) context. The practice has been involved with Henrietta Street since 2004, leading the multi-disciplinary team which prepared the Henrietta Street Conservation Plan. We have been involved in several projects arising from the Conservation Plan, not least of which has been the recently completed and soon to open Tenement Museum.
Michael Stone is the Group CEO of Designer Group, which he founded in 1992 after an extensive career with the ESB. His vision is instrumental in the development and advancement
The Group is also a well-respected name within the Engineering sector in the UK. Michael is the formerof Designer President Group of to the its Construction current position Industry as one Federation of Ireland s (CIF). leading The Group Engineering employs Contract 650 peopleors. globally
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