Grain Distillery and Bottling Hall, Tullamore
This Grain Distillery and Bottling Hall, located in Tullamore, in the heart of Ireland was borne out of the requirement to meet the expanding needs and expectations of a growing distillery. Following the success of their newly constructed distillery on a green eld site, has led to highly engineered bespoke building structures for a grain distillery and 7500sqm bottling hall, on a challenging site, with very poor ground conditions.
Client: Wm Grant & Sons
Architect: CAG Architects
Grain Distillery and Bottling Hall, Tullamore
This Grain Distillery and Bottling Hall, located in Tullamore, in the heart of Ireland was borne out of the requirement to meet the expanding needs and expectations of a growing distillery. Following the success of their newly constructed distillery on a green field site, has led to highly engineered bespoke building structures for a grain distillery and 7500sqm bottling hall, on a challenging site, with very poor ground conditions.
The bottling hall involved the design of a triple pitched portal frame with fast action doors for deliveries and loading of vehicles, with 2 storey offices incorporated with viewing gallery into the main operational area of the building. The high 50kPa loading requirement and poor underlying soil conditions containing peat, led to a reinforced concrete suspended ground floor slab, constructed on a network of piles at 3.0m centres. A new tank bund was formed, to accommodate 16No. 100,000 litre vessels with associated pipe bridges and new access gantries, to service the new building.
The processing requirements for operations for the grain distillery, has resulted in an intricate arrangement of heavy plant, equipment and network of pipes for the building structure, which in turns is linked to external bunded installations. The building incorporates a 7 storey Mill house, 2 storey Mash house and offices, with a combination of concrete and open grid floors. The tank bunds are heavily loaded piled raft foundations, designed as watertight structures for catastrophic failures for the liquid vessels. Associated pressurized pipework serving the building from the vessels was supported on long span access steelwork bridging structures.
The new service yard and perimeter access road is constructed in concrete and incorporates sustainable urban drainage systems, of swales and suds pond.
The bottling hall involved the design of a triple pitched portal frame with fast action doors for deliveries and loading of vehicles, with 2 storey offices incorporated with viewing gallery into the main operational area of the building. The high 50kPa loading requirement and poor underlying soil conditions containing peat, led to a reinforced concrete suspended ground floor slab, constructed on a network of piles at 3.0m centres. A new tank bund was formed, to accommodate 16No. 100,000 litre vessels with associated pipe bridges and new access gantries, to service the new building.
The processing requirements for operations for the grain distillery, has resulted in an intricate arrangement of heavy plant, equipment and network of pipes for the building structure, which in turns is linked to external bunded installations. The building incorporates a 7 storey Mill house, 2 storey Mash house and offices, with a combination of concrete and open grid floors. The tank bunds are heavily loaded piled raft foundations, designed as watertight structures for catastrophic failures for the liquid vessels. Associated pressurized pipework serving the building from the vessels was supported on long span access steelwork bridging structures.
The new service yard and perimeter access road is constructed in concrete and incorporates sustainable urban drainage systems, of swales and suds pond.
Client: Wm Grant & Sons
Architect: CAG Architects