In the Loop - Edition 1 - Jan 2020

IN
the
January 2020
Loop
Welcome to the
first edition of
IN2’s Newsletter
IN the Loop!
Inside:
How IN2 helped make something EPIC
Trinity Business School
2019 IN2 Award Success

Contents
2 Welcome Statement
3 Introducing IN2 Academy
5 How IN2 Engineering helped make
something truly Epic!
7 Dublin Office Move
9 Business Matters Feature
11 BTR Event
13 IN2 Website Launch
14 Award Success
15 The New School Of Business
19 Current Projects
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WELCOME
I am excited to welcome you to the first edition of ‘In the Loop’, our new company newsletter.
As the IN2 brand continues to grow, we created ‘In the Loop’ to communicate all relative industry &
business news to our clients, employees and business partners.
In this Gateway Edition, we take a look back at some of the highlights over a busy and exciting 2019. We
will also visit some of our Key Projects and look at what is currently creating a buzz in the marketplace.
From a review of our sold out BTR event held in London to the fantastic Trinity Business School
development which opened its doors in May, we talk about our new office refurbishment in Dublin, a
refresh to our website and give you a glimpse of what it’s like to work as a graduate in the IN2 organisation.
I hope you enjoy this Winter edition of the Newsletter and I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all of
our friends and clients a Happy and Prosperous 2020.
Barry Flynn
Managing Director
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Introducing
IN2 ACADEMY
The IN2 Academy
IN2 realise that investing in their
young graduate engineers is not
only the future of the practice,
but more importantly the future
of the construction industry.
With increased industry pressures (staff
shortages, increased regulations etc.)
there is no longer the time afforded
totraining of young engineering
staff. Staff shortages means that the
mentoring arrangement that should
exist between senior engineering
Graduate engineers are not properly
implemented.Young engineers are
forced into pressure situations without
the necessary knowledge or skills in
their armory; damaging confidence
and hampering career progression.
IN2 prides itself on the quality of our
young staff. Our training academy will
help shape careers within a structured
training environment.The Academy is
our in-house training facility based at
our new Dublin office. It trains a limited
number of both Post and Undergraduate
students on all of the necessary
engineering skills required to succeed
in a modern construction industry.
Link
in2.ie/about/in2-academy
This Years Academy
The IN2 academy takes place over
the course of an eight-week period
in the summer months where we
welcome a combination of current
students and recent graduates. During
this time students are provided with
theoretical knowledge alongside
applied practical experience to further
enhance their appreciation of the Built
Environment and have the opportunity
to explore specialisms. In addition to
industry specific taught elements,
practical skills in time management,
communication (written and oral),
presentation and client service
remained a key focus throughout to
provide students with the opportunity
to develop a well-rounded skillset.
This year’s Academy was an interoffice
collaboration with our own
Barry Flynn, David Walsh, Ian
Carroll, James Redmond, Graeme
Parker, Tim Jago, and William
O’Donnell providing their expertise,
in addition to John Casey from CORA.
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“
Graduate engineers are
not only the future of the
practice but the future of
the construction industry
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HOW IN2
ENGINEERING
HELPED CREATE
SOMETHING
TRULY EPIC
Officially recognised as ‘Europe’s Number One Leading Tourist Attraction’ in
the recent World Travel Awards, the EPIC museum in Dublin really does live
up to its name. Read about how IN2 Engineering contributed to the successful
redevelopment of this 200-year-old, former wine & tobacco warehouse and
transformed it into the hugely successful Digital Museum that it is today.
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Technical University Dublin Graduate, Daniel Fogarty joined IN2
Engineering in 2013 and after going through the IN2 Academy system
he started his new career working as a Junior Engineer on the EPIC,
Irish Emigration Museum Development. Six years down the line and
Daniel has advanced his role to a Senior Engineer position within the
organisation. He has since developed into a key member of our team.
Below, Daniel gives a run down of some of the main engineering systems
and initiatives that were used to make the EPIC museum, well…EPIC!
Daniel Fogarty - Senior Mechanical Engineer
EPIC Ireland is a museum that was
created to acknowledge and portray
the story of Irish Emigration
showcasing ten million journeys,
exploring the roots of seventy
million people.
As one of my first projects since joining
IN2 as a Graduate Engineer, I was keen to
get involved. As an Electrical Engineer our
job was to design and construct suitable
infrastructure to house the services and
facilities that would be required by
the museum.
Apparently, EPIC was actually the first
digital-only museum in the world and all of its
exhibits are stored ‘in the cloud’, as opposed
to on shelves or behind glass. Its galleries are
situated in the vaults underneath Custom House
Quarter and this was the first test that we had
to deal with. Whilst the vintage stone-walled
chambers were rich in atmosphere,
they weren’t ideal for housing the complex
multimedia displays that the museum
required. This also posed problems for
bringing services into the space for the
exhibition galleries and service areas.
There were originally 4 glass lenses which
allowed minimal daylight into the storage
vaults. As part of a previous restoration of
the CHQ building, horizontal concrete ducts
were formed which link across the lenses to
outside. Our team were actually able to adapt
these ducts as service pathways, to provide
fresh air, high level electrical/audio visual &
fire protection as well as a sprinkler system,
essentially bringing life to the darkness.
In addition, due to the fact that it was
impossible to fix services directly to the
walls, we had to design a floating truss which
all the required services could then be
fixed to, which in turn could provide all of
the necessary services for the exhibitions.
Utilising our cutting edge building modeling
and simulation software, the designs were
proven prior to installation which meant
that there would be no delays to the project
schedule, and meant that the client was able
to understand what we were doing and how
it would work.
The EPIC Museum was an awesome project
to work on, especially for a Graduate Engineer
and the experience that I gained was invaluable.
If you get to visit, be sure to check out the
vastness and detail of some of the lighting
exhibits. The museum is renowned for it’s
fantastic visual displays and I feel proud to
think that I played a part towards creating them.
KEY FACTS about EPIC Ireland:
• World’s first digital only museum
• Experience delivered across 21
interactive galleries
• Unique floating truss to insert services
into listed building without
interfering with building fabric
• All of the extra granite used during
construction was sourced from the
original quarry
• As part of the construction process,
all of the original brick walls that
needed to be moved were carefully
taken down, numbered and then
reinstated in other locations
• Total cost for the Development was
€16M
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WE’VE BEEN ON
THE MOVE...
During the summer our Dublin team relocated to the new
IN2 offices.
Take a look at IN2’s most envied office space!
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Business Matters Magazine
Featuring IN2
IN2 featured in the Business Matters Magazine run by the London Chamber of Commerce back in
May 2019. By appearing in the UKs largest distributed publication for SME’s we were able to successfully
demonstrate our growth within the both the UK market and vision for the future of IN2
services such as the Building Life initiative.
(Print) ISSN 1469-5162
(Online) ISSN 2051-9524
Issue 155 | May 2019
INSIDE
Lord Mayor’s Appeal
Page 4
www.londonbusinessmatters.co.uk
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A steady increase of their business
in London over the past number of
years has seen the IN2 team double
in size and following a recent senior
level recruitment drive, they are
happy to welcome some new and
experienced directors to their UK
leadership team.
Providing services over a wide
range of building sectors ranging
from Residential to Commercial,
Healthcare to Hotels, Education
facilities to Sports stadiums and
everything in-between, IN2 offer
a high level of experience and
expertise to ensure that their
clients receive an unparalleled level
of service.
IN2’s core ethos is providing
bespoke, customer-centric
solutions with progressive
approaches to energy efficiency,
integrated building services and
environmental designs to suit
client’s requirements.
They are an Environmentally
focussed company and have been
involved in a number of projects
that have developed strategic
energy saving concepts, not only
resulting in reduction of the
development’s carbon footprint,
but generating a large ‘wasted
energy’ cost saving in the process.
As part of IN2’s ‘Building
Life’ initiative, which
focusses on a sustainable
approach over the whole
building lifecycle, they are
working on two (currently press
embargoed) energy infrastructure
projects within the healthcare
sector in London. These are
predicting similar game changing
results with huge energy saving
credentials. This is an industry
leading enterprise that, using their
specialised knowledge and
experience, can be replicated over
various sectors going forward.
These form a part of a host
of developments that IN2 are
currently working on within the
capital, including a 1,000-bedroom
hotel, exclusive projects with one
of the UK’s leading co-working
brands and an 800-unit residential
unit scheme with a major developer
at the Docklands, along with
many more in the pipeline.
Their Managing Director,
Barry Flynn had the following
to say about IN2’s recent
membership with the London
Chamber of Commerce and
Industry. “With an increasing
number of enquires and new
business coming through our
London office, we were keen to
reach out to the LCCI as a means to
meet new clients and grow
our brand presence in the
area. Following a recent
recruitment drive and expansion
of our Shoreditch offices, we
want to demonstrate our
commitment to London
business and showcase our value
and expertise for new clients”.
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IN2 - Engineering London’s Future
Formed in 2002, IN2 are a modern MEP services engineering consultancy based across
multiple sites, including Dublin, Athlone, Belfast and a London office, located in Shoreditch.
Barry Flynn -- IN2 Managing
Managing Director Director
Build To Rent (BTR) Development Specialists
Proud to be members of the London Chamber of Commerce and
Industry, IN2 are keen to showcase some of their class-leading
services to new businesses within the capital.
As specialists in the lucrative ‘Build To Rent’ sector, IN2 have had
many years of experience working with BTR clients in both Ireland
and the UK and they have been involved with some exemplar
projects. Their extensive experience with BTR helps to set them
apart in this growing sector in London, and they have no doubt
that it will continue to expand over the coming years. Some
examples of BTR projects that IN2 have worked on include
The Crown House project in Barking and the Cabra Residential
Development in Dublin. The Crown House project involves
the replacement of the original ‘Crown House’ building with a
high-quality, mixed use development including both commercial
and residential uses. The ground floor will have flexible
commercial space, management facilities and a community
centre. The28,000m2 development will provide 331 apartments
across two buildings and the scheme will deliver a public realm
development with a new and usable green space at its heart.
Across the Irish Sea and in a €100m project, the Cabra Residential
Development is part of Ireland’s largest PRS (Private Rented
Sector) portfolio - ‘Dublin Living’. This 58,700m2 development
consists of 420 apartments and additional commercial space, in
eight high-end 4-storey blocks. In addition, the development’s
amenities include a community centre amenity area containing a
concierge, business centre with meeting room, residents’ lounge
with kitchen facilities and gym along with basement car parking
with 420 spaces, all surrounded by picturesque landscaped
gardens, promising to deliver a premium living space with
excellent travel links with easy access to the city centre.
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IN2 will be sharing the expertise that they have gathered from
these developments with their new business partners in London.
As part of IN2’s dedication to the BTR sector they are sponsoring
the Bisnow BTR Annual Conference held at Wembley on 5th of
June. One of their Directors, James Redmond will form part of a
LIVE panel and looks forward to answering any questions that you
may have.
We look forward to meeting
some of you there.
ICI Consultancy of the Year 2018
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For more details on IN2 or to get
in touch, please check out
our website at
www.IN2Engineering.com
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THE SCREEN ON THE GREEN
Build-To-Rent Sector Is Driving Clean Energy
Investment – IN2
IN2
JUNE
BUILD
TO RENT
EVENT
Islington, London
The rising build-to-rent property sector is driving investment in cleaner energy.
That was one of the key takeaways from a seminar
attended by more than 100 property professionals and
hosted by engineering partnership IN2 at the historic
Screen on the Green cinema in London’s Islington.
James Redmond, a Director at IN2, spoke alongside
Andrew Bradley of construction cost consultancy
Core Five and architects Graham Hickson-
Smith and Richard Fairhead, both from 3DReid.
James contrasted trends in the private rented sector in
Dublin with those in London. IN2, has offices in both cities
and is working on build-to-rent projects in both locations.
Planning and environmental requirements in Dublin have
seen a rapid rise in the use of centralised air source heat
pumps, which are taking over from CHP. “These are achieving
great energy figures and allowing investors to meet their
renewable obligations under Irish legislation,” James
told the audience.
The scale of the energy savings and growing consumer
demand for energy-efficient living could stimulate a growth
in the use of the technology in London as well, he said.
Richard and Graham highlighted how members of project
teams must work together to make Build to Rent assets as
efficient as possible. Richard explained: “The fundamental
difference with BTR is that the operator has to deliver amenity,
which costs money. If you can be more efficient in the design,
you can afford to invest more in amenity.” Graham pointed
out some of the key issues to consider when designing BTR
developments, particularly adaptability and future proofing.
“If a BTR development is going to be around for 25 years,
what’s going to change?” he asked. “It needs to be a flexible
product. What if you need to change the floorplate in future?”
He said allowing for a changing future meant
developers would have to ask themselves whether
or not a modular building approach was right for this
kind of project. The answer could be ‘no’ if taking an
uncompromising modular approach limited their ability
to adapt the development to suit changing lifestyles
and occupancy profiles over the lifetime of the building.
Andrew set out the key cost drivers involved in ensuring a
return on investment in BTR. “These kinds of developments
have to be some of the most cost-efficient buildings
out there,” he pointed out. He urged investors to take
advantage of the fact that there is now a vast amount of
data on existing BTR developments to draw on, against
which they can benchmark any proposed project.
Andrew said before embarking on a BTR project, developers
had to ask themselves how many buildings would be
optimal in a particular project, what kind of buildings they
should be and whether towers had a useful role to play.
“Repetition in design is fundamental,” he said.
“Stacking is important, and regular shapes and
apartment sizes are key. Developers need to recognise
that some design possibilities, such as basements
and inset balconies, are cost prohibitive in BTR.”
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AN IN2 PRODUCTION
CREATING BTR SUCCESS
KEY LESSONS FROM TWO CAPITAL CITIES
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Click to visit
IN2 WEBSITE
LAUNCH
In November, we were delighted to launch a major
refresh of our IN2 Engineering website providing updated
design and improved capabilities to showcase the IN2
company culture alongside our unique client offerings.
A key addition is our dedicated News Blog, which allows
us to feature upcoming events, project case studies,
team member updates and award nominations as well
as industry articles, presentations and white papers.
Along with improved project case studies and more
detailed write ups on the services that we offer, we
are developing many more client facing initiatives
that will be rolled out in the coming months.
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AWARD SUCCESS
As we prepare for the new year ahead, we are delighted that our work has been
recognised by a number of leading industry bodies over the past 12 months.
IN2 came away from this year’s Irish Building & Design Awards (IBDA) as winners
of the Educational Project of the Year for the Trinity Business School. We were also
finalists for two additional categories including Engineering Firm of the Year, and
Engineering Project of the Year (Trinity Business School).
IN2 was also a finalist for the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) Awards
2019 for work on the Trinity Business School over the past 5 years.Alongside this IN2
was shortlisted for the Fit Out Professional Consultancy of the Year, by the Annual
Fit Out Awards 2019.
We were also especially proud to be awarded the Consultancy of the Year at the Irish
Construction Industry Awards, for the second year running.
Full 2019 Award Wins and Nominations
• Winner: Education/School Building Project of the Year – Irish Building & Design Awards
• Finalist: Engineering Practice of the Year – Irish Building & Design Awards
• Finalist: Engineering Project of the Year – Irish Building & Design Awards
• Finalist: Fit Out Professional Consultancy of the Year – Fit Out Awards
• Finalist: Sustainable Building Project of the Year – Sustainable Energy Authority of
Ireland (SEAI) Awards
• Winner: Consultancy of the Year – Irish Construction Industry Awards
• Finalist: Engineering Firm of the Year – Irish Construction Industry Awards
• Education Project of the Year – Winner – Goethe Institut (Henchion Reuter Architects)
• Conservation Project of the Year – Winner – Goethe Institut (Henchion Reuter Architects)
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EDUCATION/SCHOOL BUILDING PROJECT OF THE YEAR
THE NEW
SCHOOL OF
BUSINESS
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
In May 2019 the new TCD School of Business
was officially opened, posed for the beginning
of the new academic year. This €80m, 12,000m 2
project is an exemplar building design which
our team have been working to produce since
2014. To celebrate its success let’s take a look
at the features which has helped the Business
School become internationally ranked.
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Facilities
The main Business School comprises primarily
of Learning Spaces arranged around a central
atrium space and double skin façades promoting
natural light and ventilation. In addition, the
building incorporates a 600 seater Auditorium,
Lecture Theatres, Campus Boardroom, Executive
Education area, Innovation Hub, Post-Graduate
office spaces. An additional refurbishment
formed part of the overall Project, comprising
of Student Residential Accommodation
(within protected structures) and Café annex.
Impact on Learning
The building has been designed to promote the health and
wellbeing of users to the maximum extent possible. All
workspaces have ample natural light, good air quality and
access to natural greenery. A high standard of acoustic design
reduces noise distractions contributing to a pleasant and
comfortable working environment. In addition, staff have
been given the option of site stand desks to facilitate more
active working habits. Harvard-style lecture rooms will allow
for more interactive teaching and collaborative project work.
One floor will be given over to Tangent, an ideas workspace
where innovation and entrepreneurship teaching will be
available to all students, not just those from business courses.
Trinity wished to build a school well linked and engaged
with its local industry. As a result, it has developed a
centre for digital business and put focus on finance
and entrepreneurship, already becoming one of the
top-rated European schools for entrepreneurship.
Secondly, it wanted to improve its community links. With
that aim in mind, the building has areas for hotdesking and
alumni. In future, the school is going to scope out flexible
education to better cater to students with other commitments.
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Innovative Building Systems
Passive design features included developing the building massing
to maximise natural daylight and ventilation usage. These passive
design features are supplemented by low energy systems,
including displacement ventilation, variable speed fans and pumps
and low energy lighting. Displacement ventilation is provided
to the main (600 seater) Auditorium and below Ground Lecture
Theatres. As these systems provide air at a mild temperature
(18-20oC as opposed to 1oC for conventional A/C), cooling
requirements are effectively negated. Furthermore, the low air
velocities of the system inherently ensures reduced system pressures,
minimising fan energy and ensuring a low noise environment. Where
internal areas within the building require mechanical ventilation, this
is provided on a demand controlled (measuring air quality (CO2) basis.
Sustainable Features
The key sustainable design principles of the Trinity Business School
are low energy building systems (low-velocity air systems and
displacement ventilation systems), LED-based lighting,
Rainwater Harvesting and 500 m² of PV Panels which will offset
35 tonnes of Carbon per annum. The building was also designed to
incorporate a 70sq m living Green Wall comprised of seven plant
species encouraging both environmental and psychological benefits.
The building’s energy performance has been confirmed to be in
accordance with the Near Zero Energy Building (NZEB) despite having
been designed in advance of this definition (2014-2015) and is thus
envisaged to be one of the first prestigious projects in Ireland
to achieve this.
Future Use, Flexibility
Further expansion of the School of Business building is constrained
by its location on the Trinity College Campus. However, the building
has been designed to fulfil future needs and potential capacity. The
auditoria and teaching spaces have been designed to offer flexible
layouts to accommodate varying numbers of students and staff, and
indeed numerous use case scenarios. The nature of the building
services design, and its low energy focus, supplemented with
renewable technologies, ensures that the building’s future
performance will be uncompromised by any external factors. This
is an exemplar low energy, low maintenance building, which will
provide efficiency and cost benefits to the university long into
the future.
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THE NEW
SCHOOL OF
BUSINESS
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
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CURRENT PROJECTS
McKee Barracks
Athlone
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Tallaght Innovation
Centre
Dublin
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CURRENT PROJECTS
Clarence Chambers
Belfast
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Dublin
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Upper Mount Pleasant Avenue
Ranelagh, Dublin 6
t: +353 (0)1 496 0900
e: info@in2.ie
Athlone
14 O’Connell Street
Athlone
County Westmeath
t: +353 (0)90 640 9090
e: info@in2.ie
London
Unit 31 Waterside
44-48 Wharf Road
London N1 7UX
t: +44 (0)20 3582 8852
e: info@in2engineering.com
Belfast
2nd Floor, 5-23 Hill Street
Belfast
BT1 2LA
t: +44 (0)28 9022 1110
e: info@in2engineering.com
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