Case Study

WeWork at 1 Central Plaza, Dublin

We Work Dublin

A campus rebuilt around light, sightlines and silence.

Client

WeWork

Principle Contractor

TSK Group

Architect

TSK Services Ltd

Location

One Central Plaza, Dame Street, Dublin, D02 EF64

KPL Partner

The KCC Group

  • The Brief

Background & Building

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The original building was the old Central Bank, of significance architecturally as part of the legacy of buildings around Dublin by renowned and sometimes controversial architect, Sam Stevenson. The refurbishment brings a new lease of life to the iconic building in the heart of Dublin City Centre.

This redeveloped former bank headquarters in Dublin is designed to be the base for more than 1,000 office workers. This €75m redevelopment on Dame Street includes a 300-seat rooftop restaurant and panoramic viewing deck for tourists and 12,000 sq m of offices, as well as shops in the adjoining buildings.

"We needed the partitioning to disappear — and where it had to be seen, to be precise enough to belong to the building."

— Project Architect, Arcadis

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The Design Brief

The requirement to introduce multi-functional meeting rooms, offices, boardrooms and individual pods for singular meeting spaces allowing natural light to flow through whilst maximising space and providing acoustic performance. Also, due to building design, we needed to offer +/- 25mm deflection at the head of the glazed screens managing live and static loads.
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The Project at WeWork in Dublin

§02 — Specification

Komfort Systems

Three Komfort systems, calibrated to a single architectural language: gold steel, acoustic glass, and integrity ratings that disappear into the building.

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DEF—EI30

Polar 30

single glazed

  • Deflection head to cater for live / static loads +/- 25mm
  • 12mm toughened safety glass 34dBRw
  • Panes vertically dry bubble jointed

02

DEF—EI60

Sonik 70 Doors

hinged, single glazed, acoustic 34dBRw

Double-glazed system protecting protected escape routes. Specified to BS EN 1364-1, full third-party certified.

03

POL—100

Sonik 70 Sliding Doors

single & double

Acoustic separation between adjoining classrooms. Concealed framing reads as continuous panes of glass.

Numbers, held quietly behind the glass.

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Fire integrity rating

EI60 — minutes

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Square feet partitioned

Across four floors

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Polar 100 double-glazed

Acoustic performance

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RIBA-shortlisted scheme

Education, 2024

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Komfort Products Used

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Polar 100
Polar 100
Polar 30
Polar 30
Sonik 52 44mm Swing Door
Sonik 52 44mm Swing Door
Sonik 70 44mm Swing Door
Sonik 70 44mm Swing Door
Sonik 70R 54mm Rebated Door
Sonik 70R 54mm Rebated Door

Challenges and Solutions

Being a central city location, planning and logistics were a challenge for access and egress for the movement of products from delivery to build locations. The installation programme was also very tight meaning an upfront survey from the formed apertures, the arrangement of drawings and offsite manufacture to allow a swift install rather than a two phase install process.

The Komfort Specification

Throughout the tender process we offered several solutions focused on acoustic performance, visual continuity and budgets, using minimum framed glazing. This high quality refurbishment finally included multi-functional meeting rooms, offices, boardrooms and individual pods, with a mixture of hinged and sliding acoustic doors to maximise space and acoustic performance.
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