The proposal consisted of the construction of an additional first floor area in an existing
light industrial facility at Unit No. 29, Finglas Business Centre, Jamestown Road, Dublin
11, for The National Council for the Blind of Ireland. The floor was increased by 170m² to
436m² by the addition of a first floor area to a double height space. The facility is used
as a Braille production and storage facility together with Audio book production and
copying. Copies of Braille and audio books are dispatched from the premises, by post to
members of the NCBI throughout Ireland. Returned copies are stored in compact shelving
units in a temperature and humidity controlled environment.

The building is two storeys in height with office space to the front and storage space to
the rear. All access is to the front of the building. The external treatment of the buildings
is generally fair-faced concrete blockwork topped with contrasting red blockwork,
aluminum windows and metal panels. The roof is a profiled metal panel on steel support
purlins and concrete beams and columns.

The first floor area contains four sound recording studios constructed to U.S. Library of
Congress standards and are used by the N.C.B.I for the professional recording of audiobooks
and the reading of news papers by volunteers onto disc.