Arklow Waste Water Treatment Plant / Clancy Moore Architects

Arklow WasteWater - Arklow Wastewater Treatment Plant is the first time an architect has been a part of the design team for such a building. Here, a small architecture practice won an invited competition and worked alongside the engineers to instrumentally direct and shape the plant's design. Arklow has been without wastewater treatment for its entire history. It's a badly polluted river and sea that act to prevent the town's ability to grow, and badly impact ecologies and the amenity value of these water bodies. Previous attempts to build a plant had failed repeatedly, as previous designs did not meet planning approval on sensitive sites.