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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 26, 2016

QUESTION NO. 24

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

To ask the Chief Executive  to present a full report on the Council's Pavilion Programme detailing the schedule now being followed in respect of each site and will the Chief Executive give assurances that the Programme will not be subject to any delay.

REPLY:

The pavilions project was predicated on the use of a rolling programme of similar pavilions large enough to create a critical mass that would be sufficient to attract pre-fabrication contractors to tender on a Design-Build basis. The approach had been piloted at TASC pavilion Limekiln with a good result. The advantages were seen as the reduction in design time and cost, the harnessing of innovation from the prefaricated sector and a considerable reduction in construction time on site. The tender was publicly advertised but received a poor response with no viable tender submission. Costs were very high and quality disappointingly low throughout the submissions. There appears to be no appetite for the programme of prefabrication as envisaged and it will now require a new approach. A design-build approach based on more traditional construction has proved successful on the Clondalkin Equine project and it is proposed to use this approach to tender the sports pavilion and car-park in Oldbawn. If this proves successful it can be expanded to address the other pavilions originally included in the programme. The tender will issue in the coming weeks.