National Heritage Week 2019 – Conservation Best Practice
To celebrate National Heritage Week 2019, Southgate Associates are hosting a Conservation Open House in the Georgian country house, Laurentinum, situated in Doneraile, Co. Cork.
Elizabeth Fort, Cork City
Southgate Associates were appointed Conservation Engineer/Project Manager by the OPW on a 2 year, 5.4 million euro multi-phase conservation project at Elizabeth Fort in Cork City Centre. The project involved the sensitive conservation of the 17th Century Star Fort. The Fort had become a dangerous structure due to extensive vegetation growth, and the company was called in when a 1.5 tonne piece of rock fell off the fort, crashing through the roof of a residential house below.
Connemara West Project
Southgate Associates specialise in delivering cutting-edge conservation and design solutions for the ‘adaptive reuse’ of historic buildings and heritage landscapes for new sustainable purposes. Our built heritage represents our inheritance from the past, but to maintain that memory on the landscape…