HOB proudly collected the ACEI 2022 Award for Mechanical & Electrical Category - Large Projects - For: 70 St. Stephen's Green at the ACEI 2022 Annual Excellence Awards held Friday 2nd September 2022.   Homan O’Brien were commissioned to complete the design and site supervision of Mechanical, Electrical and Vertical Transportation Services for a new 7000m2 State of the Art City Centre Office Development for Irish Life. The new air-conditioned [...]

Dublin Landings has been awarded the 2022 Urban Design & Architecture Award. Judges noted “the project is distinguished by its stunning architecture and striking landscaping”, as well as referencing to the “calibre of the tenants who have chosen to take space there”; businesses now anchored at Dublin Landings include We Work, The Central Bank of Ireland and the National Treasury Management Agency. Hailed by the Irish Times as “one [...]

Bon Secours Hospital in Limerick has been given the green light for the construction of a new 19,405m2 Hospital over 2 to 4 storeys to provide a 79 beds, with both in-patient and out-patient facilities and treatment rooms. The development will also include ancillary administration offices, laboratories, patient pharmacy, oratory, operating theatres, staff and patient facilities including a staff and patient restaurant, car park at surface level with [...]

Homan O'Brien has been appointed on the new Pembroke Quarter Phase A Commercial Development for the Ronan Group and for Pembroke Quarter Phase 2 Residential for Lioncor. The overall site will deliver up to 3,800 homes and will provide in excess of one million sq. ft. of commercial space including cultural & community spaces, offices, a hotel, rental, private, social, and affordable housing.  

Homan O'Brien is pleased to announce we have been shortlisted in 2 categories, "Mechanical & Electrical -Large" and "Environmental Sustainability - Built Environment", for our project 70 St Stephens Green for the ACEI 2022 Engineering Excellence Awards. The Award Winners will be announced at the ACEI Awards Dinner on Friday 2nd September 2022.  

We are pleased to announce several of our most recent Projects have been shortlisted for the Irish Construction Excellence Awards 2020 and we would like to take this opportunity wishing all Contractors well. Entries are; Peamount Healthcare  -  Duggan Brothers Maryfield Nursing Home  -  Purcell Construction Mullingar Courthouse  -  BAM Ireland Sport Ireland   -  Employers Rep., Riverside Mechanical http://iceawards.ie/finalists2020/#7  

“Southill Older Persons’ Accommodation Limerick”, designed by ABK Architects, has been awarded the RIAI Silver Medal for Housing 2019. This award winning development provides thirty-five apartments for older persons organized around a private, secure, central landscaped garden. It also has a management suite consisting of a caretaker’s apartment, and a reception/office/communal area with a meeting area suitable for use by the wider community. Homan O’Brien is delighted to [...]

The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) celebrated 50 years in Ireland by presenting awards in 3 Categories celebrating Engineering in Ireland over 50 years. Homan O’Brien who celebrated 60 years in Engineering last year won one Category for the Design and Introduction of the first ever Commercial Ice Bank Thermal Storage System in Ireland in Beresford Court Office Building for Irish Life, completed in 1991. The [...]

  ONE FOR ALL THE LETTING AGENTS OUT THERE Now that the Building Regulations TGD L 2017 has been published, which includes the Nearly Zero Energy Building (NZEB) Requirements for Commercial Buildings, a few interesting scenarios arise. We all know it was the “Letting Agent” that required air-conditioning in offices in Dublin to ensure they achieved the maximum rent available! The current AC Solution in favour in Central [...]