Dublin City Ship Street Case Study

KORE Void Formers with Millimeter Accuracy

FK Lowry, a piling contractor part of the Lagan Group, chose KORE Void Formers for the Dublin Ship Street project due to past experience with our high performing, quality void formers.

FK Lowry chose KORE EPS70 White Void Formers,  enabling the placement of hard and soft secant bored pile walls. These were a large diameter 900mm void former manufactured to the precision and layout required on site to form two, and three-storey basements required deep rock socketed piles. The KORE EPS was supplied to exacting sizes in various bespoke shapes, sizes and forms to allow the void former locations to be formed along the full perimeter required. EPS is a great product for this use and can be shaped and cut in the factory to match the site specifics. In the case of Ship Street, the EPS was cut to follow the unusual shape of the site perimeter. Using EPS solved the issue faced when dealing with infill existing sites which can challenge a contractor. As the EPS void formers are lightweight, they are easily paced on site and quickly too, creating a temporary formwork to facilitate the piling works. The voids required precision accuracy down to the millimeter, as the project was very precise with high specifications including radius layouts and void radius up to 1200mm.