The Grange, Dublin

 “[Sapphire’s] commitment to staying on site and reschedule their ferry home twice is much appreciated. The professional manner on how Sapphire approach their works is acknowledged and applauded.”

Site Manager, John Paul Construction

History:

The Grange Residences sits in Stillorgan, a few kilometres outside of Dublin’s city centre. The town has featured many new housing developments since the early 1930s, amenities and an old village centre, and exists now as a community-driven residential area a stone’s throw from Dublin itself. The Grange is a brand-new residential development that features 250 balconies manufactured and supplied by Sapphire Balconies.

Streamlined by Ingenuity, Delivered by Sapphire:

Sapphire worked closely with John Paul Construction to assist in realising their aspiration for ‘picture-framed’ balconies, without the need for structural support columns. Their dilemma was that support columns would require extra groundwork, extra time on-site, and a potential extra cost to manufacture.

With the task in hand to remove the need for structural columns whilst still ‘framing’ the balconies, Sapphire streamlined this project through ingenuity. We created non-structural columns for the balconies, manufactured off-site. The balconies were initially lifted into position as on a normal Glide-On™ job, after which the outside columns were brought in to be fitted, framing the balconies as requested, without taking any of the weight of the balconies, which were fully supported by the building without any strain on the structure.