Prestressed Hollowcore floors provide the most economic flooring solution for the widest variety of situations in masonry, steel and concrete structures, due to maximum benefits of speed of construction

Main Contractor Kilcawley Construction, Co. Sligo completed construction of a 2 storey extension and refurbishment of the existing school at St Joseph’s National School, Dundalk using Prestressed Hollowcore flooring.

This project include a two storey extension to the existing single storey 16 classroom school and extensive refurbishment works to the existing school building, demolition of temporary accommodations and associated site works.

The extension comprises of 8 no. classrooms, GP Hall and ancillary accommodation with an area of 1,911sq.m.

Flood Precast provided 200mm and 250mm Hollowcore flooring with a total quantity of 600m2 and 4 precast stairs for this project.

When used in upper floors, Prestressed Concrete Hollowcore planks eliminate the problems associated with traditional timber floors: e.g. maintenance costs resulting from shrinkage of the timber and subsequent cracking of finishes. The benefits to the construction and design teams in this project were flexibility of design, elimination of squeaks, improved sound insulation between floors and the opportunity of incorporating block partition walls to further improve sound insulation between rooms.

Contractor – Kilcawley Construction

Architect – Coady Partnership

Engineer – DBFL Consulting Engineers

Products – Hollowcore and Precast Stairs

Project – St. Joseph’s N.S., Dundalk

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