It’s been nearly a decade the making but worth the wait.
The new Shankill Womens Centre provides a multipurpose facility for fostering community cohesion and empowering women across diverse backgrounds in a historically divided area of Belfast.
Being located on a heavily contaminated former Flax spinning mill site, our solution to raise the building level up and use a piled raft slab to cap the hazardous soils was an innovative, yet simple solution to reduce costs for disposal of hazardous material and reduce vehicle movements off site.
The structural engineering solution is a hybrid steel frame (only used for open plan areas) and load bearing masonry structure. Avoiding an entire steel frame throughout saved ~50Tonnes of steelwork and 126Tonnes of eCO2. A simple decision making a huge positive impact.
We are proud to have worked with Todd Architects on this project that promises to bring meaningful change and sustained peace-building to Belfast.
Architect: Todd Architects
