RFT - Request for Tenders for Design and Build Contractor relating to residential development at High Park, Drumcondra

Tender description

The proposed development is an infill residential development within an existing mixed-use campus site. The proposed development comprises 101 apartments in 3 blocks with balconies, winter gardens and roof gardens, a new pedestrian and vehicular access at the north east of the site at Grace Park Road with new realigned cul de sac internal estate road, a new pedestrian access point to Grace Park Road at the south east of the site and discontinuation of vehicular access into High Park from the Martanna House entrance, with removal of 35 m approx. of existing rendered front wall, and completion of the new low front wall with railings at Grace Park Road, all with attendant open spaces, landscaping and planting and sustainable urban drainage and with ancillary water and sewerage services, within the curtilage of High Park Church and High Park House which are Protected Structures and part-Protected structures respectively. The development comprises Block A of 5 storeys stepping down to 4 storeys, Block B of 5, 4 and 3 storeys, and Block C with 4, 3 and 2 storeys. Maximum height of the development is 15.83 metres. Apartment types will be: 1 bed x 2 person - 40 units 2 bed x 3 person - 7 units 2 bed x 4 person - 29 units 3 bed x 5 person - 23 units 3 bed x 6 person - 2 units (total 101 units) providing a total of 344 bed spaces. 136 underground car parking spaces and 4 surface level spaces will be provided along with 120 secure cycle spaces. A total of 40 existing surface level spaces will be removed. The whole site will comprise on completion of the development a mixed-use campus in a shared parkland open space served by a shared access road. Existing structures will be maintained along with existing uses of those structures. The site contains an existing communal facility (a former church) and an existing institutional building (High Park House, a former convent) linked by a modern reception and circulation area all of which will remain in use in established office, supported residential, educ