St. Christopher’s Special School, Longford

Work has commenced on the extension and renovation of St Christopher’s Special School, Longford. The scheme involves the part demolition of a section of the existing school to accommodate a new entrance and offices; upgrade of existing buildings; new single storey extensions totalling 1,960m²; two temporary accommodation buildings totalling 555m² and all associated site works and connections to existing services on an existing school site.

The project professional team are McCarthy O’Hora Architects, Civil & Structural Engineer, Hayes Higgins Partnership, Building Services Engineer, Delap & Waller.

Key features:

• New main entrance and offices
• Primary and post-primary classrooms
• Quiet rooms, teaching & therapy rooms
• laundry room, dining room & kitchenette
• Conference/library
• Nurses room and recovery room
• Secretarial & principals offices
• Visitors room, staff room and washrooms
• Two internal courtyards
• X-Y whole room hoist systems
• Sluice/laundry room, accessible washroom facilities
• 2 new classrooms with self-contained quiet rooms
• A dining room & kitchenette
• Multi-sensory rooms and gross motor activities area
• A classroom/soft-play-area, storage rooms and stage/toy store
• Boiler room and gym store room

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