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Prestressed Hollowcore floors provide the most economic flooring solution

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 […]

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Hollowcore and Stairs provided for School building programme

No Town or County in the country has faired better that Portlaoise and Laois in government led initiative in the school building programme announced in November 2015. One of the rural national schools that benefited to this programme was the extension for Scoil Bhríde NS in Ballyroan. Flood Precast worked in partnership with main contractor Carroll O’Keeffe […]

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Prestressed Hollowcore Flooring Slabs and Stairs for Mount Lucas Wind Farm

The Mount Lucas wind farm comprises 28 huge turbines producing 84 megawatts of electricity, enough to power up to 45,000 homes. Flood Precast provided 275m2 prestressed hollowcore flooring and 3no Precast Stairs for the mount Lucas wind farm service building. These we’re designed, supplied and installed by Flood Precast. There are several advantages of the precast flooring hollowcore […]

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Flood Precast works in partnership with Design Team to provide precast products for CERC – University of Limerick

Clinical Education and Research Centre (CERC) is under construction since June 2015 at University Hospital Limerick (UHL). The CERC development is a partnership project between UL Hospitals and the University of Limerick (UL) and is co-funded by both the HSE and UL with an overall project cost of circa €12.75m. The development, which comprises a […]

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Multi-million euro new build Primary Care Centre at Robinstown, Mullingar, Co Westmeath

Construction work on Mullingar Primary Care Centre started in July 2015 and will be completed in Q3 2016. As precast concrete suppliers we were involved in the design, supply and installation of Flood Super Wideslab, Hollowcore and Precast Stairs. We worked closely with Glenbeigh Construction on the design of the flooring and stairs. Due to design […]

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Achieving Sustainability with Precast Concrete

Precast Concrete construction is faster, stronger, more fire resistant and has a higher sound control, which achieves more sustainability that traditional construction methods. Precast concrete is sustainable. Precast Concrete is capable of higher strength which allows for long clear spans making it especially applicable to structures requiring large open spaces.     it is extremely durable. […]

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School benefits from exposed soffit which provides thermal mass properties of Flood Super Wideslab®.

Flood Precast designed, supplied and installed roof slabs for this school project. Flood Super Wideslab’s® design exploits the thermal mass properties of exposed soffit, a viable option by virtue of Flood Precast’s Class B finish, which can be painted directly. The precast planks act as a heat sink, absorbing excess energy from sources such as […]

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Investment to Community College provides present and future needs for local population.

On Friday 8th January Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation Damien English T.D. officially visited Castlepollard Community College to open their new extension. The extension was a 148 sqm single storey to the south of the school to comprise two new 49 sqm general classrooms and approx. 49 sqm circulation space. The original school building, […]