Ireland Interiors July 2022
Ireland Interiors
ARDMAC
03 ARDMAC OVERVIEW
04 WORKING SMART 06 SAFETY FIRST 0 7 SELECTION OF PROJECTS 14 OUR FEEDBACK
455+ The number of people working at Ardmac
65 The number of people on the Ardmac team for over 10 years
750 The number of projects completed in the last 5 years
5200+ The number of projects completed since 1977
€180m The projected turnover for 2022
22 The number of years that we have won the RoSPA Gold Award for H&S
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Our vision is to be the contractor of choice for clients and the workplace of choice for great people. At Ardmac, our reputation is built by delivering results and exceeding client expectations. An award winning leader in fit-out and interiors, Ardmac have been providing high quality spaces to fast moving and evolving markets such as the commercial, technology, financial services, hospitality, education, and manufacturing sectors for over 45 years. We believe in setting new standards for our industry and driving innovation, we believe in tailoring solutions to our clients’ evolving needs, and in working hard to harness our unrivalled knowledge to deliver safety first and excellence as standard across award winning projects. For our clients, that means acting with honesty and integrity always. Respect always and an open and transparent approach are key to developing long-lasting, trusting relationships.
Our guiding principles: Safety First Understand our Customers Respect Always Excellence as Standard Deliver our Brand Promise
For our employees, that means encouraging them to be forward-thinking, to embrace change, and to share new ideas and knowledge. That experience and knowledge feeds back into projects to bring certainty to our clients, and to deliver superior results. Ultimately, we settle for nothing less than excellence as standard . We go the extra mile to ensure that we continue to lead the way in our industry and to uphold our ethos of Building Better .
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WORKING SMART THE ARDMAC WAY At Ardmac we work Smart, meaning we deploy innovative technology throughout our business to empower our people, drive performance and delight our clients. We place our clients at the centre and apply Lean construction principles and technology to everything we do at Ardmac. We analyse problems through a structured innovation process and apply technology to solve them in a focused manner. Technology has the power to drastically change the face of the construction sector and Ardmac are committed to staying ahead of the curve.
Empowering our People In Working Smart, we combine the three pillars of Last Planner (LPS), our Field Management Software (FMS) and Building Information Technology (BIM). By implementing these tools and processes on all projects, we have built a strong foundation for success. Our systems ensure information flows seamlessly to our teams and customers with streamlined workflows providing a single source of truth, enabling high performance decision making. Our use of technology improves processes at Ardmac, allowing our people to focus on value added work and reducing waste. By deploying these technologies, we are providing our people with fast, efficient and user-friendly platforms that contribute to highly effective collaboration. Our commitment to continuous improvement sees our dedicated digital construction team continuously trial new technology. Our goal is to deliver an entirely paperless jobsite by 2022. Our employees now link continuous improvement to Working Smart. Last Planner System (LPS), Field Mangement Software (FMS) and Building Information Modelling (BIM), are at he heart of everything we do at Ardmac. Collaboration is streamlined across disciplines with people working in tandem rather than silos.
This enables our teams at all levels of the organisation to make better, faster, clearer decisions through Working Smart. Our digital culture and readiness enabled us to cope extremely well during the pandemic as we transitioned to a much greater degree of remote and online working, it has allowed our support teams to continue delivering all services while not being physically present on our sites. This has had a very positive impact on our supply chain also. We collaborate with subcontractors in the same manner using the same systems, we provide clear, current information, filtered to their specific scope of works. This greatly reduces frustration sourcing information or the impact of additional costs due to rework. It reinforces the message that our supply chain is crucial part of our process and a true partner in project delivery. Driving Performance Empowering our people allows us to drive performance. We use cloud-based integrated systems on all our projects. These systems arm our decision makers with real-time accurate information related to safety, quality, schedule, commercial and technical performance.
To summarise, by Working Smart; deploying innovative technology throughout our business, we empower our people, drive performance, and delight our clients.
Armed with this knowledge (on any mobile device) managers can devote more time to making decisions and being in the field supporting the project, and less time at their laptops inputting data or reviewing outdated spreadsheets. Ardmac have been delivering projects using Building Information Modelling (BIM) for over 10 years. BIM ensures greater efficiency and shorter project life cycles, improved communications and coordination, more opportunities for prefabrication and modular construction, higher quality results and resource savings. Ardmac use Last Planner System (LPS), which is a way to collaboratively manage project- based production. As the name suggests, the LPS engages last planners - the people ultimately responsible for getting the work done - in the planning and efficient execution of a project. LPS is designed to produce predictable workflow and rapid learning in programming, design, construction and commissioning of projects. Ardmac have successfully adopted LPS on every project, small or large since 2018 and we have seen excellent results from this.
Paper-based documentation is administration heavy, prone to human error and inconsistency can result in downtime which could have otherwise been used productively. We have implemented an online induction platform to manage the safe deployment of labour to our sites, new starts complete their training online before arriving on site. Upon arrival they are given a site orientation and their online profile is linked to a QR badge time and attendance system. This integrated approach ensures that all persons on our sites have completed the relevant training, are cleared to be there and that we have accurate digital records. This approach allows our managers to focus on delivering crucial safety messages rather than administrative tasks. Delight our Clients At Ardmac we place our clients and their needs at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to maxmise value for our clients. Clients can access project information and performance in real-time on any mobile device. These digital processes not only improve efficiencies for Ardmac but also for our clients. They enable us to deliver projects faster while enhancing Safety and Quality. Working Smart allows us to consistently deliver across multiple sectors and geographic regions.
Managing labour on a project can be a significant challenge using traditional processes.
ARDMAC
SAFETY FIRST THE WAY
We constantly strive to ensure that Safety in Ardmac remains much more than an organisational priority but is a value and our first guiding principle at Ardmac, defining the priorities in activities and environments, both at work and at home. We know that we must continuously improve, and foster ownership and the leadership for safety at all levels within the organisation from the CEO to the shop floor. Our common goal is to create a zero impact environment. We aim to evolve and develop new and innovate approaches to gain that extra improvement to achieve our goal of zero incidents and injuries at all our workplaces wherever they are located, In Europe, Ireland or in the UK and ensure the realisation of our core Safety First value. We believe, through our Safety First programme we can eliminate injuries and enhance people’s lives through embedding postitive attitudes and beliefs to safety, enabling them to think about safety positively and in a different way. Safety First and always is foremost in our thinking. For everyone around us, in everything we do and wherever we impact
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ARDMAC
ELLUCIAN
Ellucian is charting the digital future of higher education with a portfolio of cloud-ready technology solutions and services. Appointed on a Design & Build basis to deliver Ellucian’s aspirations for their new Dublin headquarters on the second floor of 45 Mespil Road. Construction consisted of the formation of all new rooms, installation of glazed screens, removing and exposing the ceilings, new flooring, wall and ceiling finishes along with works to the existing mechanical and electrical servicing to suit the new layout. Particular consideration was given to the acoustics both within the open plan and cellular spaces as this was a particular focus for Ellucian. During the initial stages of the project on site, lockdown occurred as a result of COVID-19 putting a halt to the programme. During this period, design and procurement continued along with the team putting in place procedures to counteract the spread of COVID-19 once the site re-opened. The adoption of our SMART innovative processes was of particular benefit to this project, ensuring open and transparent collaboration and real time information was shared with key decision makers who were largely based in the US and unable to travel due to the impact of COVID-19. Live and up to date information was available to them 24/7.
Scale: 9,000sqft Programme: 12 weeks Client: Ellucian Project Manager: JLL Architect: Mola Architecture M&E: Axis Engineering
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GENESIS AVIATION
Genesis is a leading full-service aircraft leasing company that provides innovative and tailored aircraft leasing solutions to global airline customers. Ardmac were appointed to carry out the internal fit out of the seventh floor of the newly constructed Block I within Central Park for Genesis in 2019. The new headquarters for Genesis comprises a new reception area, both cellular and open plan offices, conference and meeting rooms, a wellness room, canteen area and support spaces. Utilising contemporary design with muted tones and subtle colours that reflect the corporate identity of Genesis, the project included bespoke joinery to ceilings and walls within the reception and circulation areas. Ardmac’s scope included the formation of all rooms, new ceiling and lighting arrangements ,high end acoustic and sound absorption materials, new floor, wall and ceiling finishes along with works to the mechanical and electrical services including new plant and equipment.
Scale: 10,000sqft Programme: 12 weeks Client: Genesis Aviation Project Manager: Green REIT Architect: Henry J Lyons
Cost Conulstant: KSN M&E: Axis Engineering
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WHITNEY MOORE
Ardmac were appointed by IPUT Real Estate Dublin on behalf of Whitney Moore to complete a full strip and CAT B high end fit out. This incorporated the third and fourth floors at No. 2 Shelbourne Buildings in Ballsbridge, Dublin. The space was stripped out to grey box leaving only the raised access floor. All existing services and external finishes were removed and craned down from the 4th floor plant area. The new CAT B fit out comprises a reception area, client meeting rooms, 35 one and two person offices, open plan office areas and ancillary spaces, as well as external entertaining areas. Special bespoke features are incorporated into the fit out and include high acoustic performance in all client meeting rooms and offices, consistent with the requirements of a solicitor’s practice. Logistically, a challenging project due to working in a live building and a noise sensitive environment. Access to the floors was via an external hoist to minimise the noise impact on the sitting tenants within the building. Both the client and tenant are highly complimentary, on both the end product and the on-going positive customer experience post completion.
Scale: 16,000sqft Programme: 14 weeks Client: Whitney Moore (IPUT) Architect: BKD Architects Project Manager: Oakfield
Cost Consultant: KSN M&E: Homan O’Brien
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NURITAS
Nuritas is a pioneering Biotech firm that combines artificial intelligence and genomics to discover and unlock natural Bioactive Peptides with extraordinary health benefits. Refurbishment and fit out of Nuritas’ new headquarters in Joshua House on Dawson Street, located adjacent to the listed Mansion House. The new HQ comprises of office and laboratory spaces for research and development. The works required the strip out of all areas, the construction of a new reception area, DAC works, open plan offices, break out spaces, management offices, boardroom and meetings rooms, along with a townhall styled staff canteen and with high specification laboratories on the ground floor. To cater for the new laboratories on the ground floor, extensive mechanical upgrades were completed including provision of new chillers, plant and liquid nitrogen cages within the basement. A new ESB sub station and meter room was also constructed over the basement carpark access ramp which required structural works and extensive temporary propping.
Scale: 16,000sqft Programme: 12 weeks Client: Nuritas Architect: Diarmuid Reil Cost Consultant: MacMinn O’Reilly Mahon M&E: Synergy Structural: DBFL
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SAGE
Sage provides solutions that help businesses of all shapes and sizes to manage accounting and finances, manage payments, manage people and payroll, and manage the entire business. The project consisted of both Cat A and Cat B works including strip out and refurbishments to the existing building and services. Sage’s vision for the new base in Dublin was a vibrant, multifunc - tional, open plan office environment. The fit out of the new space included exposing the services within the existing ceiling, formation of feature bulkheads, installation of new raised access flooring, new stud and glazed partitions, floor finishes including carpet, tiles and vinyl, bespoke joinery for collab- oration spaces, writable folding partitions, furniture, IT and Data along with associated mechanical and electrical work. Our team worked closely with the SAGE and the Design Team ensuring a seamless transition into their new home. During the 14-week programme, across the ground floor and first floor, we cre- ated a sophisticated reception area, executive offices, innovative collaboration and breakout spaces, meeting rooms, and a games room.
Scale: 36,000sqft Programme: 14 weeks Client: SAGE Architect: Henry J Lyons Project Manager: Green REIT
Cost Consultant: KSN M&E: Axis Engineering
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HOSTELWORLD
Hostelworld is the largest online hostel-booking platform sparking social experiences around the world, inspiring passionate travellers to see the world, meet new people and come back with extraordinary stories to tell. Hostelworld wanted a fresh, contemporary workspace with custom-made joinery and specialist solutions including a reception counter that doubles as a coffee shop, and a bar that is accessible from the reception. The architectural specifications on the project required a very high level of quality, and the architect was regularly present on site to confirm any setting out and design changes. This ensured that the project ran smoothly. The floors above Hostelworld’s offices were occupied throughout the project, so noisy works were scheduled out-of-hours to minimise disruption to the other occupants. The complete fit-out project comprised open-plan workspaces, cellular offices, meeting rooms, breakout areas, and tea points. A new reception was installed with a custom-made desk and feature walls with specialised joinery.
Scale: 22,000sqft Programme: 12 weeks Client: Hostelworld Architect: Henry J Lyons Cost Consultant: KSN M&E: Axis Engineering Project Manager: Green REIT
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HSBC
HSBC Bank plc is a British multinational banking and financial services organisation. HSBC were looking a working partnership to assist them in consolidating staff from two floors into one, following the lease of the second floor coming to an end. Ardmac were appointed following Stage 1 of a two-stage tender. Our experience both with HSBC and the building along with our ‘no surprises’ approach throughout stage one assured our client of a go-to partner for their project. During Stage 2, Ardmac appointed DMOD Architects and METEC to assist in designing HSBC’s vision for the new space. The front of house area was reconfigured to enable more future flexibility as well as making the most of spaces whilst not in use for traditional meetings. The atrium’s new layout was designed in such a way to encourage use throughout the day and not just at peak times, with new furniture installed to accommodate both meeting and eating facilities.
Scale: 20,000sqft Programme: 18 weeks Client: HSBC Bank plc Project Manager: Arcadis Architect: DMOD M&E: Metec Engineering
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OUR FEEDBACK
Testimonial: Sarah Dixon, Henry J Lyons “...great working with Ardmac and all the team on this fitout for Genesis... thanks to the team for their dedication to achieve a high level of finish on site...’’ Testimonial: Brian Gavigan, DMOD “...they were excellent in managing communications with the client and a range of affected stakeholders within the wider building.... They managed a very onerous set of landlord procedures and maintained superb relations...’’ Testimonial: Corrina Blanchfield, Ellucian “...The communication was excellent at all times and follow up and response times to issues or questions were exceptional, Ardmac even managed to get ahead of some of the tasks that were assigned to them according to the timelines. Nothing was ever an issue and I was reassured at all times even when some issues did arise...’’
Testimonial: Adrian Lambe, Douglas Wallace “...These days a contractor has to do much more than contracting - he has to have a highly coordinated and professional team in place in order to exact all potential and possibilities from a job and ensure that quality programme and cost are all high priority... Ardmac delivered this on this very important fit out project... from the outset their attention pre contract to detail and procurement was extremely impressive...” Testimonial: Paul Quinn, BKD Architects “...Working with Ardmac was a seamless process. From start to finish, their attention to detail and commitment to delivering a high end, quality finish was impressive. At every juncture the team were professional, transparent and a truly collaborative specialist partner on our project...” Testimonial: Roger Semple, Green REIT “... Throughout the project, Ardmac’s attention to detail, procuring materials and subcontractors, plus liaising with the Design Team, to deliver a quality product, was exemplary. Ardmac delivered on time and within budget, a very high quality product, which Genesis are immensely proud of...’’
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