JNP Architects were appointed as Architects in September 2006 by North Eastern Education and Library Board for the Antrim Library project in Railway Street. The project team were as follows;
| Employer |
*North Eastern Education and Library Board |
| Architects |
JNP Architects |
| Services Engineer |
Mott MacDonald |
| Contractor |
T & A Kernoghan |
| Quantity Surveyors |
Hood McGowan Kirk |
| Planning Supervisor |
JNP Architects |
| Civil/Structural Engineer |
Doran Consulting Limited |
*Libraries NI as of 1 April 2009
The Design Team meetings started in March ’07, Planning and Building Control approvals were sought and received and a commencement date on site of August 2008 agreed. Completion is due in November 2009.
The library is a steel framed building giving circa 2000m2 on 2No. floors at a corner site. The total contract value is £2.3m and a contract period of 15 months. Internally the spatial concept involves open plan, full height and cellular volumes.
The brief also included an aspiration of Very Good in a BREEAM assessment (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology). To this end JNP Architects invited tenders for the services of a registered assessor, an acoustician and an ecologist and requested BRE for a bespoke BREEAM assessment criteria document.
