TII513 Drumfin Strategic Maintenance Facility Construction

Description

TII intends to enter into an Agreement with a highly qualified construction firm for the construction of the Strategic Road Maintenance Facility. The approved development of the Strategic Road Maintenance Facility comprises a Strategic Resilience Salt Barn Facility, Maintenance/Operation Depot Facility and Local Authority Municipal District Machinery Yard, with ancillary buildings and structures, to provide a range of national, regional and local road maintenance services. The development site is approximately 3.1ha in size and is located within the townland of Drumfin in Co. Sligo, approximately 16km south of Sligo town and 6km northeast of Ballymote. The main proposed infrastructural elements on the site include: 4 no. Strategic Salt Barns, with capacity of 30,000 tonnes of salt, for national reserves and Resilience Salt stocks; Two-storey Administration Building for Maintenance/Operation activities which includes internal storage area, welfare facilities, offices and canteen facilities on the ground floor, with offices and meeting/training room on the first floor; Maintenance and Operation Barn including lean-to vehicle storage and secure internal storage for maintenance and operation salt suppliers; Other proposed facilities include an internal access road, weighbridge, bunded re-fuelling area, truck washdown area, underground storage tank for collection of brine/contaminated runoff from salt containment and truck washdown, road material storage areas and a staff/visitor carpark.