Tralee Community Nursing Unit

Tralee Community Nursing Unit

Client: Health Service Executive
Category: Medical
Size: 2500sq/m
Architect: Coady Partnership Architects
Engineer: MRG Consulting Engineers
Surveyor: John J. Casey & Co.
Mech/Elec: BDP Building Design Partnership
Timeframe: 16 Months
Cost: € 7.8 Million
Location: Teile Carraig, Killerisk, Tralee, Co.Kerry

Construction of a new single storey 50 bed community nursing unit building including the following:

  • 2 no 25 bed care modules including day / dining areas, nurses station and office, relatives room, ancillary accommodation including toilets, bathrooms, utility rooms & stores

  • Central module which includes reception, foyer, offices, examination room, meeting and function rooms, seating/dining areas, oratory and ancillaries.

  • Services module which includes staff facilities, stores, kitchen, plant areas and waste stores including recycling of plastics, glass and cardboard, ESB substation and standby generator.

  • 55 car parking spaces within landscaped areas as well as set down for ambulances and delivery vehicles together with associated ground works and hard and soft landscaping

Airtightness Testing – The specified level of allowable air leakage is an air permeability of 5 (m3/hr)/m2 at 50 Pa building pressure.The building Achieved an air permeability of 3.8 (m3/hr)/m2 at 50 Pa building pressure

Awards & Accreditation

  • ICE Award Winners Cert 2024 Education Project1 Eamon Costello 2
  • VCR Logo 2022 2023
  • Irish Green Building Council
  • NSAI
  • safetcert
  • NSAI Certified
  • heritage
  • homebond
  • niso 1
  • links irishgeorgiansociety
  • CIRI