ADP News
ADP News
Tuesday, 1st June 2010 - Eddie Weir judges University students work .
ADPs Eddie Weir was invited to the University of Ulster to judge the work of the students ahead of the end of year show and prize giving later in the month.
Eddie, accompanied by another member of the CIAT regional committee to select the best examples of work throughout the 4 years of the Architectural Technology and Management course based at the Joardanstown campus.
Friday, 12th March 2010 - CIAT visit Belfast's new "Obel Tower" prior to its completion.
In a CIAT CPD event organized by ADP's Eddie Weir, Northern Ireland members of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) were given the opportunity to inspect the new Obel Tower in Belfast.
The CPD was highly oversubscribed and places filled up almost immediately.
The event was attended by members the CIAT along with members of ADP including; Eddie Weir, Matthew Weir, Barry Mullen and Colin Duffy.
Set to dominate the Belfast skyline, the Obel Tower stands 265ft tall (81 metres) and should beat the current record holder Belfast's Windsor House by around a metre!
On 17th June 2008 O’Hare & McGovern Ltd., Building Contractor laid the first foundation stone which marked the beginning of the superstructure building works.
Upon its completion Belfast’s Obel Tower will rise majestically above the Belfast skyline, symbolising
a new phase in Northern Ireland’s development.
The £75 million Obel development is a mixed use development at Belfast’s Donegall Quay that includes the tower superstructure (88.31m high) that will house 282 apartments, an eight storey hotel building and 41,000sq.ft office space with eateries and retail units on the ground floor.
The superstructure of the development is due to be completed in phases from July 2009
through to 2010.
