Believed to be the first dwelling in Ireland fully finished offsite — kitchen fitted, bathroom plumbed, electrics live, solar PV on the roof — delivered in three weeks.
Fernhill House, built for Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council at Fernhill Park, set out to answer a blunt question: how fast, and how affordably, can Ireland deliver a genuinely good home? The answer was three weeks and €120,000 — for a dwelling believed to be the first in Ireland completed entirely in the factory, down to the fitted kitchen, plumbed bathroom, live electrics and solar PV array.
Installed on ground screws with no concrete foundations, the house achieved an A2 Building Energy Rating, NZEB compliance and airtightness beating the 0.6 air changes per hour passive house benchmark — insulated with Ecocel recycled cellulose, clad in cedar under a zinc roof. It remains the clearest demonstration of what rapid-build can mean when the entire building, not just its shell, comes out of the factory.
Featured in The Public Sector Magazine, "120 Years — Serving the County of Dublin" (AILG feature).
