The Project

Spire Healthcare opened a £60m flagship hospital in Nottingham. The hospital was built with extensive input from consultants, staff and patients alike.

The state-of-the-art facility offers patients a wide range of integrated surgical, medical and diagnostic services that will meet the needs of Nottingham and its surrounding areas for years to come.

The Product

This project used a diverse collection of paving styles and finishes comprising of Kilsaran’s Inish Curragh Gold tumbled, Kilsaran’s Mellifont Natural Antiqued, our Pembroke Slate concrete paving and a granite sett was carefully selected to fulfill  the overall look and feel on both a practical and design sense.

The Process

The entrance to the hospital required a hard landscaped area that could accommodate a variety of vehicular and pedestrian traffic while remaining attractive and being clearly identifiable as the single entrance into the hospital site.

Paving providers Hardscape helped source a variety of suitable materials for both pedestrian and vehicular use. This resulted in a design which used alternative materials to  complement the building and create a high quality entrance plaza to the development.

The People

• Client: Spire Healthcare
• Paving Supplier: Hardscape
• Architect: TPM Landscapes
• Location: Nottingham, UK
• Product: Kilsaran Inish, Mellifont, Pembroke and Tactile paving.
• Photo Credit: Hardscape

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited constructed its state of the art Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Facility at the Greenfield site in Piercetown, Co. Meath.

The development comprised of the main facility block with associated ancillary buildings. The main campus block consists of three buildings adjoining together to form the main facility for the site.

Project Address: Piercetown, Dunboyne, Co. Meath

Location: Leinster 

Sector: Commerical 

Products Used: Trinity Blocks, Newgrange Flags

Contractor: Clonmel Enterprises

Architect: Jacobs Engineering

Client: Shire Pharmaceuticals

The Project

This scheme, carried out under TII’s High Speed Road Pavement Renewals Framework, involved the removal and replacement of almost 185,000 square metres of surface course on a 7.3km stretch of the M50 between Junction 14 at Leopardstown and Junction 17 at Shankill where the M50 and M11 merge.

The Product

This involved laying approximately 18,000 tonnes of Stone Mastic Asphalt surface course in accordance with the TII Specification for Road Works.

In order to achieve the most durable surface possible, Kilsaran Roadsurfacing and Contracting and our client – Jons Civil Engineering Ltd., in conjunction with the client decided that it was desirable to lay the surface course in echelon.

The Process

Echelon involves laying the material in one pass across the full width of the motorway carriageway.

In this instance it entailed laying with three of our Vogele paving machines side by side. This eliminates the need for cold longitudinal joints which is the most common location of pavement failure. No joints means no path through which water can pass, eliminating a possible weak spot from the start.

As the M50 is Ireland’s busiest roads with traffic volumes in excess of 100,000 vehicles per day, the project was carried out during night time possessions of the motorway between 10pm and 6 am. In excess of 1km of motorway carriageway was laid in each night shift.

To achieve this our site team of 30 people took delivery of the material from a transport fleet of 30 trucks from two asphalt plants to ensure that paving could run continuously for the entire shift.

The People

• Main Contractor: Jons Civil Engineering Ltd.
• Location: M50 Junction 14 to M11 Junction 5.
• End Client: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII).
• Products: Stone Mastic Asphalt surface course.

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The redevelopment of the Curragh Racecourse respects both the great heritage of the Curragh and the importance of celebrating the unique landscape of the Curragh plains whilst retaining the intimate and distinctive character of the existing racecourse grounds.

Project Address: Newbridge, Co. Kildare

Location: Leinster

Sector: Commercial 

Products Used: 

Architectural Concrete 

Cem Floor Liquid Screed

Masonry Blocks 

Standard M4 Mortar

Coloured M4 Mortar

KPRO Street High Strength Bedding Concrete (HSBC)

KPRO Street Priming Slurry

KPRO Rapid Setting Jointing Mortar

KPRO Crete Rapid Setting Concrete

Asphalt Products

Contractor: John Sisk & Son

Client: John Sisk & Son

Year of Completion: 2019

Kilsaran Products Featured:
Water proof concrete slab and rising walls

Client:                   APTIV Global Operations

Engineer:             Barrett Mahony Consulting Engineers

Architect:            RKD Architects

Contractor:         Bennett Construction

Major Supplier:  Techrete / Kilsaran

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Kilsaran Products Featured:

Newgrange Light Grey, Sandblasted
200 W x 200 L x 80 D
Newgrange Silver Granite, Ground
100 W x 100 L x 80 D mm
Newgrange Light Grey, Ground 
100 W x 100 L x 80 D
Newgrange Light Grey, Ground 
100 W x 200 L x 80 D mm
Newgrange Light Grey, Ground 
100 W x 100 L x 80 D mm
New Grange Light Grey, Sandblasted 
100 W x 100 L x 80 D mm
Pembroke Light Grey, Sandblasted

Client:

Hardscapes

Photography:

Hardscapes

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Kilsaran Products Featured:

Newgrange Silver Granite Flag Paving
600 x 300 x 80mm (linked here). 

Aggregates & Ready Mix Concrete from our Tallaght Plant

Client:          

McCallion group 

Landscape Architect:     

Tim Austin