The first significant steps in this development consist of extensions to the shopping centre, including internal reconfiguration, to enhance the retail, food and leisure offer as a catalyst for the repositioning of Blanchardstown as a whole.

Larger retail offer core to the Centre in the first “Central Mall” scheme; opening up the Red Mall with improved circulation and larger destination anchors; increasing food offer throughout.

BIM is core to Lafferty’s work process and this proved essential in informing the design, enabling stake holder visualizations and coordination of detailed design with a full team of consultants.

Successful planning applications and BIM coordinated detail designs.

Brief

Lafferty Project Managers are collaborating with Multi as part of a long term vision for Blanchardstown Town Centre, with the ambition to create a mixed-use retail, leisure, office and residential destination at the heart of an integrated town centre.

The Blanchardstown Centre works are made up of four projects. The redevelopment of the blue mall to include demolition of part of the existing structure, the relocation of a substation, realignment inground services and relocation of the taxi rank. While all four Mall entrances garner a similar split in footfall the Blue Mall entrance will be seen as the main entrance into the Blanchardstown Centre.

The Central Mall project will consist of two distinct pieces of work, an external extension of exiting tenancies and an internal heavy lifting package.
The Red Mall project includes the revamp of two existing entrances to the Blanchardstown Centre (Green & Red) and a large retail unit. Both entrances will be kept live during the works with an average of 10,000 customers passing through each entrance daily, this was achieved with multiple temporary entrance reconfigurations.
The final project is the upgrade of the internal finishes to all the public area in the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre. Most works will be completed outside Mall opening hours with the works returned to the public domain each morning before opening to customers

Response

Larger retail offer core to the Centre in the first “Central Mall” scheme; opening up the Red Mall with improved circulation and larger destination anchors; increasing food offer throughout.

BIM is core to Lafferty’s work process and this proved essential in informing the design, enabling stake holder visualizations and coordination of detailed design with a full team of consultants.

Successful planning applications and BIM coordinated detail designs.