Naughton is falling apart?

ledgearooni

bit of the roof just fell off CRANN

ledgearooni

ledgearooni wrote: »

bit of the roof just fell off CRANN

What? 'Just fell off'? How?

Ron DMC

Myth wrote: »

What? 'Just fell off'? How?

Probably nanites.

ledgearooni

bout a 3m piece has landed on a car parked outside the church! the old bill are there at the mo. Landed on the back of a VW golf, lookin at the scene out my window:)

I was wondering what all that was about...

Ron DMC

My mate just called me. Apparently they're shutting down half the city! The whole roof could go at any minute he was told.

Traffic's being diverted from up at Nassau Street to avoid the Pearse Street area completely.

You'd think they'd have built the roof to withstand a bit of wind.

ApeXaviour

I had a wander up there.. they were replacing the panels (and glass I think) at the very corner anyway. And the Cherry picker was workin away. It was one of the top panels that fell off as opposed to any part of the roof.

Was having a cordial chat with one the garda present, according to him it didn't hit anything. Traffic is only bein diverted around about 100m of Pearse St. From the Westland Row corner to Shaw St.

EDIT:

(stolen from after hours)

Ron DMC

ApeXaviour wrote: »

I had a wander up there.. they were replacing the panels (and glass I think) at the very corner anyway. And the Cherry picker was workin away. It was one of the top panels that fell off as opposed to any part of the roof.

Was having a cordial chat with one the garda present, according to him it didn't hit anything. Traffic is only bein diverted around about 100m of Pearse St. From the Westland Row corner to Shaw St.

That sounds a lot more believable.

By the sound of my friend on the phone, you'd swear there was absolute chaos, but I think the sound of the wind and my imagination was the cause of a lot of that.

Stargal

ledgearooni wrote: »

bout a 3m piece has landed on a car parked outside the church! the old bill are there at the mo. Landed on the back of a VW golf, lookin at the scene out my window:)

Lol: the first time I read that I thought you meant that the car was outside the college chapel, and I was like 'Wow, how did it get all the way from CRANN to Front Square?!'. Duh me.

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

My mate just called me. Apparently they're shutting down half the city! The whole roof could go at any minute he was told.

Traffic's being diverted from up at Nassau Street to avoid the Pearse Street area completely.

You'd think they'd have built the roof to withstand a bit of wind.

Could that be true? Could a brand new building have been so badly designed that the roof could be falling in on a windy day?

Edit: Had this tab open for a while before posting so didn't see ApeX or Ronny's most recent posts. Makes more sense.

BendiBus

So does this mean the gym has been closed? Stuck in work and I've really been looking forward to a swim all afternoon

Ron DMC

Stargal wrote: »

Could that be true? Could a brand new building have been so badly designed that the roof could be falling in on a windy day?

You'd be surprised how shoddily put together that place is.

And it's layed out really badly too: Reception on the ground floor at the door, passenger lift at the far end of the building. Makes no sense.

Splinter

anyone know if there is still access to goldsmith hall available? meant to be juggling there this evening

cianclarke

Apparently pearse street is closed because a piece of glass has fallen from the Naughton institute - anybody know any more? Going for a look now...

Stargal

There's a thread about it on After Hours. Seems town is like a car park.

Stargal

Yeah there's a discussion about it on the last page of the rant/bitch/moan thread. Sounds pretty mad.

I'm meant to be getting a bus to Celbridge from Pearse Street tonight

I know that in a large audit firm for whom I used to use work for, a week after they moved in their brand new building one of the roof panels fell off and shattered on a sunscreen over a managers head... shoddy work seems standard these days..

The_Minister

There are threads in the Dublin forum and After Hours.

ApeXaviour

Might merge the posts into this thread, apologies for resulting discontinuity.

Stargal wrote: »

I'm meant to be getting a bus to Celbridge from Pearse Street tonight

Think you should be okay. The 67/67A bus stop is almost on College St. They usually get there by turning onto Pearse from Shaw St. (which last I saw was still open).

If they're being redirected, then there'll be someone at the stop telling you to get it from Westmoreland St. (near to the londis/centra on the corner), which is the next stop. I'd say just go there from the off.

The Black Oil

Sent at 4:17pm.

Dear Colleagues,

Due to extremely high winds, one section of roof panelling blew from the roof of
the Naughton Institute on to Pearse Street during maintenance work by
contractors earlier this morning. While nobody was hurt, the Gardaí decided at
2.00pm to close a section of Pearse Street (from the Lombard Street / Westland
Row junction to Tara Street) until the high winds have abated.

Lombard St is also closed. Traffic coming from Grand Canal Street is being
diverted along the Canal towards Leeson Street. Traffic coming into the city
along Pearse Street is being diverted via Macken Street, the Canal and Leeson
Street. However, you're advised to avoid the area if possible. More information
can be found on the AA Roadwatch website
http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/traffic/story.asp?id=92924

I wish to advise that the Pearse Street Gate West Entrance (opposite the Garda
station) has now been opened to facilitate staff and students leaving the
campus to avoid the diversions.

Noel McCann
Facilities Officer.

RTE have picked up on it http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0226/pearsestreet.html

Cantab.

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

You'd be surprised how shoddily put together that place is.

And it's layed out really badly too: Reception on the ground floor at the door, passenger lift at the far end of the building. Makes no sense.

You'd think given the mess McNamara made of the Hamilton building (i.e. structural problems on the top floor, not to mention the bog-standard architecture), they'd get someone more competent in this time.

Oh but wait, McNamara has built pretty much every new building around college for the last 15 years -- I wonder why that is...

The sports centre is a joke -- first it was 50m pool, then 30m with retractable floor, finally they built a 25m pool, unisex jacks and massive offices for the sports administrators.

There was no targeted effort to bring Trinity sport to national/international level. It was compromise after compromise from the very beginning and we're left with a building built by bureaucrats that stinks of mediocrity. The clubs were never consulted, and what we're left with is a glorified health spa. I'd love to see some statistics to show how sport in Trinity has improved with the introduction of the new facility.

Pet

You'd think given the mess McNamara made of the Hamilton building (i.e. structural problems on the top floor, not to mention the bog-standard architecture), they'd get someone more competent in this time.

Oh but wait, McNamara has built pretty much every new building around college for the last 15 years -- I wonder why that is...

Do you actually know why? I'd love to; I couldn't believe that they were building the Naughton.