How can Housing Development be Optimised with Leading Precast Concrete Solutions?

“Our precast buildings offer faster construction times, superior quality control, and increased durability compared to traditional onsite methods. Other key benefits include reduced onsite labour requirements, superior thermal and acoustic insulation, high resistance to fire and natural decay, and enhanced environmental sustainability due to minimised waste and factory-controlled production.” 

“The key to success for any precast concrete development is early engagement with the client, so their design team can fully engage with ours. Our in-house design capability is a plus as we have control of the project from the outset and can value-engineer solutions to issues that arise before manufacturing starts. This collaboration is key to achieving the time- and resource-saving of utilising precast.”

“Requirements vary widely from Design and Structural Engineers needed for our in-house design office; to Project Managers, Contracts Managers, safety personnel, quality personnel, steel fixers, carpenters, and skilled Machine Operators in our offsite facility; through to qualified installation crews who construct our buildings.” 

“Upskilling and promoting existing staff is crucial. We have developed a staff development portal where employees can avail of a multitude of courses. We have also developed our own in-house training centre, in our O’Reilly Barleystone facility. Membership to professional bodies, such as Engineers Ireland, is also encouraged and covered by the business. Today, we have leaders throughout the O’Reilly Group who started in our production units and have progressed over the years to Factory Supervisors or Construction Supervisors, or other areas of the business.” 

“Moving into a project management role seemed interesting because working with precast frames requires more upfront design coordination. Changes mid-project are difficult to enact and expensive, negating the time and resource saving of utilising precast concrete. Sequencing and structural tolerances are also important, with these details need to be known prior to site work commencing. My role enables just-in-time delivery of the precast elements to site when needed.” 

“Adapting to my Project Manager role required me to gain a full understanding of designing for precast concrete elements, how structures fit together, and ways to apply that from project to project with different contractors – some of whom have never dealt with precast concrete before. In addition, being a woman in the building industry requires total technical expertise as women are still not the norm and contractors can look on us strangely, especially if we hold management positions.” 

“The Griffin Point scheme is amazing. We do our due diligence on all types of MMC systems to ensure initial technical designs will work with them, and we have seen that MMC can deliver at scale – and it’s straightforward.” 

“O'Reilly Precast’s products are the result of many years of research and development, both by market research in Ireland and abroad and by observing the changing construction needs for modern buildings. Products are manufactured in our state-of-the-art factories, with the likes of tilt-tables used to optimise daily production and make transport from our facility in Cavan to site easier and safer.”