New tricks for old bricks: 250 million Limerick Opera site reuses rubble
The €250 million Opera centre building site - designed to transform Limerick city centre - could become an example of new tricks for old bricks with a climate and sustainability dividend for other major construction projects.
It's one of the country’s biggest projects involving the recycling and reuse of construction rubble in which over 1,000 tonnes of stone, brick, cobblestone, old doorways and gates have been salvaged after the four-acre site was levelled.
Sustainability and conservation were cornerstones of the project from the very start.
Sixteen old buildings, many of them Georgian, and of important historical significance, are being retained for use as living accommodation, but huge volumes of material which would otherwise go to landfill, are also being harvested for reuse in other building projects.
https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2022/0414/1292354-limerick-opera-recycling/
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