ARCHITECTURE
The National Building Agency has been synonymous with the evolution of social housing estate design and delivery, through the Department of the Environment's various initiatives and programmes since the beginning of the 1960's. Its Architectural Department has been central to these activities and is the nuclei of what is now a multi-facetted professional design service.
The Architectural Department's development charts the development of social housing in Ireland, early developments in prefabrication, action planning of Council land banks, and the Department of the Environment's urban renewal initiative with pioneering schemes in Cork, Athlone and Dublin, to name but a few initiatives. Today the Agency's palette of design professionals covers the range of expertise required to address all of the issues that confront us in the 21st Century with professional architects with in-house specialty in the following fields:
- Conservation
- Estate regeneration
- Urban renewal
- Sustainability
- Low energy design and green technology
- Estate masterplanning
- Modern methods of construction techniques
The cohort of professional architects also hone their many skills on a range of building types other than residential, albeit in its many forms and manifestations, and the Agency's architects have, over the past 25 years, designed:
- Libraries
- Museums
- Interpretative Centres
- Area Offices
- County Council Offices
- Swimming Pools
- Community Centres
The Architectural Department also acts as client design adviser to various local authorities on complex projects of varying scale.
The National Building Agency's corporate memory enshrining the developments in social housing since the early 1960's, guide and inform our experienced team in addressing the needs of our clients in equipping us to deal with the multi-facetted challenge that relate to providing homes and creating communities.