Mount Carrick > Case Studies
Make EnquiryContemporary House at Blackrock Co Louth.
This is a modern 350sqm house built on an exposed site on the fore shore.
External walls and floors are formed from eco-cem reinforced concrete with 50% ground granulated blastfurance slag (ggbs)
Ground Granulated Blastfurnace Slag (GGBS) cement is a by-product of the steel industry. Molten slag lying on top of the molten iron in the blastfurnace comprises silicates (glass), and is the raw material for GGBS cement. The molten slag - of no use to the steel making process - is cooled and then finely ground to form GGBS cement.
GGBS cement has exactly the same chemical constituents as ordinary Portland cement, only in slightly differing proportions. Thus it can replace Portland cement by up to 85% in making ready-mixed concrete. GGBS cement is widely used in the UK and on the continent for making concrete. It has been used in the UK for over seventy years where the annual usage is now about 20% of the total cement market. In continental Europe approximately 17.7 million tones of GGBS cement are used annually in making concrete. The leading user of GGBS is the Netherlands, where 54% of cement used in making concrete comprises GGBS cement. Belgium (25%), Italy (27%) and Germany (14%) also have high GGBS cement usage levels.
The façade of the building is finished with limestone soured locally.
Internally there is 120mm insulation bonded to external walls with stud partitions plasterboard and skim finish.
Heating is provided by 95% efficient gas combination condensing boiler all rooms are zoned separately and are thermostatically controlled.
There is a heat recovery ventilation system.
The roof is copper cladding on ply on with 250mm semi rigid rockwool insulation.
