St. Christopher’s Special School, Longford

St. Christopher’s Special School, Longford,  caters for pupils between the ages of 4-18 years, with special educational needs who have a Moderate General Learning Disability, a Severe/ Profound General Learning Disability, and pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

The scheme provided an extension and renovation to the existing school, requiring the partial demolition of a section of the existing school to accommodate a new entrance and offices; upgrade of existing buildings; new single-storey extensions totaling 1,960m²; two temporary accommodation buildings totaling 555m² and all associated site works and connections to existing services on an existing adult and child special services campus.

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 and therapy rooms
• Laundry room
• Dining rooms and kitchenettes
• Conference/library
• Nurses room and recovery room
• Secretarial & principals offices
• Visitors room, staff rooms
• Two internal courtyards
• X-Y whole room hoist systems
• Multi-sensory rooms and gross motor activities area
• Classrooms/soft-play-area, storage rooms and stage/toy store
• Plant room
• Gym and General purpose hall
• External soft play areas

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