Douglas Village Shopping Centre, Cork
In the attached article, James Duggan comments on the challenges of working in a live shopping centre environment, in creating the extension to the Douglas Village Shopping Centre in Cork.
Working in a live environment and having to keep enough parking spaces available for shoppers are just two of the challenges associated with the job, says James Duggan, Associate Director and Project Manager for Arup. "As well as piling into difficult limestone ground conditions we also had to divert two rivers, with new culverts, which ran right across the site."
This article, as featured in the April issue of SCN, is reprinted with the kind permission of Steel Construction News.