Case Study
Kieran Miller MD of Gypsum Industries and Batt O’Keeffe Minister of State For Environment present Richard Goodliffe and Dave Wood with the Prestigious award in Dublin February 2008
Studio Schemes ltd
Wins The Gypsum Industries award for Innovation. - 2008
The award was for
The design and construction of 14 studios for Radio Ireland Ltd
February 2008
The Diggs Lane Building
Radio Ireland had acquired three floors of a brand new building in the centre of Dublin
The Diggs Lane building was over five floors with Radio Ireland occupying the top three floors.
Radio Irelands existing buildings were unable to facilitate the latest broadcast technology required, all 13 new studios are controlled by a central racks room on the top floor allowing all audio, computer, transmission, recording and audio control equipment to be totally flexible and interconnectable by control computer.
Their existing building also could not be altered to facilitate the requirements of disability access requirements.
Because of the very stringent acoustic requirements for the studios, Studio Schemes were contracted directly by Radio Ireland to design and build the thirteen studios over three floors within the new broadcast centre, they were intended to house FM104 and Today FM the Ireland wide commercial station.
Richard Goodliffe Studio Schemes technical Director spent six weeks designing every aspect of the studios down to the finest detail, resulting in no less than 62 fully detailed plans and construction sections. The acoustic control was designed to exceed the required, very stringent, specification set down by the client and the Broadcast Authority – everything was constructed by Studio Schemes own team of skilled studio installers.
Studio exterior floor 4
The overall building & space design was handled by SpaceLab of London and the project managers were FKM of Dublin.
P J Walls were the main contractor for the office and building facilities fit out.
Studio Schemes own staff designed constructed and finished the acoustic studios.
The studio design brief was very stringent and encompassing, based on what is known as the IBA broadcast Code of Practice.
This necessitated a design in which not only were the outer studio walls very heavy and designed for high isolation, the inner studio “BOXES” were built on sand filled sections that were floated on neoprene blocks to ensure that no part of the studio structure touched any part of the existing building and avoided building borne sound as well as the air borne sound that the structure is also designed to isolate.
The total design construction came in at 180 tonnes over 3 floors