This facility which is due to open in 2011 will accomodate Trinity’s Institute of Immunology, a Centre of Excellence in Cancer Drug Discovery, Institute of Neuroscience and Trinity’s Bioengineering Centre. Its opening will coincide with the tercentenary of medical education in 2011. The building will accomodate around 1,000 researchers by 2013.
Our involvement in the project arose from the requirement for a triple basement for this building. We designed and constructed a 900mm diameter hard/stiff secant pile wall with pile lengths up to 19m deep to provide a retained height of 10m. Th e length of wall installed is 309m. The geology of this site is generally 4m of made ground over 3m of sandy gravels over 8-12m of boulder clay over limestone rock. As you can see from the aerial photograph the loading conditions on three sides of the site are HA loading but on the remaining boundary we have the old masonry Pearse Street railway station.
