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GRAND CANAL GREEN ROUTE

• Inchicore to Newcastle Road.
• CSEA acted as Project Managers and Design Engineers for the project.
• The scheme which comprised of  public and environmental consultations, Part 8 planning, detailed design, tender document preparation and assessment based on the new Public Works Contracts, construction supervision and account management.
• Approximately 8.5km of new 110kV ducting and chambers including separate telecommunication ducts and Joint Bay chambers for ESB.
• 3 no. canal crossings including damming of canal, excavation of material and reinstatement of puddle clay. 4 month window in which to complete all 3.
• Approximately 8.5km of 4-way ducting for CCTV provision, public lighting and Waterways Ireland utilisation.
• A dedicated pedestrian and cycle route laid over the ducting including controlled crossing points at the Ninth Lock Road, Kylemore Road and Killeen Road. Control gates are to be provided at crossing points.
• Pedestrian ramps onto the pedestrian canal route from Kylemore Road, Park West Avenue, Fonthill Road and the Outer Relief Road.
• Access points along the extent of the scheme.
• Public lighting and chambers, CCTV poles and chambers, bespoke street furniture.
• Landscaping of the entire scheme including name-stones and enhancement of access points.
• Installation of Jetties and Fishing Points.
• Provision of artificial breeding areas for local wildlife.
• Diversion, lowering and protection of existing services including but not limited to cast iron watermains, ESB ducting, Eircom and Bord Gais.
• All associated ancillary works.

The scheme is located on the southern bank of the Grand Canal and extends for 8.5km from the 3rd Lock in Inchicore to the 12th Lock on the Newcastle Road. The clients for the extent of the scheme are the ESB, South Dublin County Council, Dublin City Council and Waterways Ireland. Clifton Scannell Emerson Associates were lead consultant from preliminary design through to completion.

Environmental Considerations
The scheme has a number of unique characteristics that required a high level of consultation, design and a regard for how all aspects of works could impact on these issues.

The Grand Canal corridor has provisional protected status and in our initial environmental surveys we identified fauna; bats, otters, birdlife, fish and crustaceans, and flora; pyramidal orchids, meadow grass and native trees which required an individual approach to ensure they would not be impacted detrimentally during the works.

Public lighting was designed not to impact on Daubenton and other bats using the canal water and its environs  as a feeding ground. Doubleton’s bats will not feed if there is a full moon and our lighting design had to have a lighting footprint less than full moon levels over the canal while still maintaining a required level of lighting on the canal towpath. In order to accomplish this, a dimming and cowled system was designed in consultation with the Parks and Wildlife Service and is the first system of its type utilised in Europe.

 

Client: ESB, DCC, SDCC
Value: €13m