Work begins on €40m Mercer Institute for Successful Ageing

Oct 11, 2014

 Work has started on the construction of the €40m Mercer Institute for Successful Ageing, located on the St James’s Hospital campus in Dublin.  The first sod was turned by Minister of State for Disability, Older People, Equality & Mental Health, Kathleen Lynch.  GARLAND are providing civil and structural engineering services to the Design and Build contractor, BAM Group Ireland.  We are delighted to be delivering this project using BIM (Building Information Modelling) processes and tools. 

 The seven storey, state-of-the art facility is intended to provide a centralised facility for the institute’s clinical, education and training, research and creative life work with older people.  The build will be completed by late 2015 and will create 250 construction jobs at its peak. 

The 15,000m² facility will include innovative early diagnostic and rapid access ambulatory care clinics, in-patient acute assessment, rehabilitation and a continuing care unit with 76 en-suite bedrooms and further ward spaces to accommodate a total of 100 beds.  The building will also include research facilities, consultation spaces, meeting spaces, catering facilities, day areas, roof terrace spaces, a courtyard and naturally lit foyer and conference rooms.