PROJECT. COLLABORATION. INNOVATION.

D/RES Properties are developing and building a 1,000 m² Community Centre and Creche using mass timber and an off-site Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) construction methodology. They proposes to use the Community Centre and Creche as a baseline CLT building which can demonstrate the use of typical CLT floor cassettes, walls and roofs, as well as standard mass timber structural connection details, membranes and tapes that can be utilised across other building typologies. The project aims to define the key aspects for the design, detailing, off-site DfMA process, optimised delivery and efficient erection which can provide the highest value for knowledge sharing to accelerate the use of mass timber in Ireland. The Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) of the project will be a key part in the sustainability credentials of the final mass timber development, following cradle to grave principles for which very limited data is currently available not only in Ireland but internationally.