Spencer Place South is a major 6.05 acre regeneration scheme, occupying an entire city block on the riverfront site in Dublin’s Docklands. The campus consists of the construction of seven commercial buildings (in four main groups) of varying height over a common 3-level basement. This includes the refurbishment and adaptive reuse of the existing 19th Century British Rail Hotel - a protected structure. The project is being delivered as part of the North Lotts and Grand Canal Dock Strategic Development Zone. The office development is occupied by Salesforce and has been named Salesforce Tower Dublin.

Three of the commercial buildings provide open-plan long-span flexible office space using post-tensioned concrete floor slabs. We worked closely with the client, architect, and end-user to develop structural schemes which offer distinctive edge cantilevers and open plan floor plates for maximise potential for future tenants. A key architectural feature of the development is to the South elevation where a 7-metre cantilever transfer slab supports 7 floors overhead - this design offers a striking entrance statement to the development, while ensuring views of the Protected Structure are unimpeded. These buildings all have set-back penthouse floors in structural steelwork using beams with openings to maximise flexibility for service distribution in tenant fit outs.