An Bord Pleanala has granted Planning Permission for a new Council Chamber and offices at Buvinda House, Meath County Council HQ in Navan, Ireland.
A low carbon design approach underpins a transformative addition to the existing building, whilst promoting an ethos of sustainability for Meath CoCo. The building form creates a variety of microclimates internally and externally, employing the wind to drive natural ventilation whilst responding to the sun path with enhanced daylight to internal and external spaces. Made primarily of bio-based materials, a mass timber primary structure and terra-cotta clad envelope, embodied-carbon is reduced to a minimum. The bio-based materiality strategy, supported by a passive design approach to ventilation, heating and cooling, for the open and collaborative work spaces, together create a healthy internal working environment, following the principles of our fit-out of the adjoining Meath County Council Headquarters. and building upon design strategies employed at the TRCA HQ and the SAP Galway building.
