Medite MDF has been used in the €22m extension and refurbishment of the former Dublin City Gallery will see 13 exhibition areas created.
The project will create 13 exhibition areas at the gallery – renamed the Hugh Lane Gallery – which houses works including paintings from Manet, Monet, Degas and Renoir.
Geoff Rhodes, marketing and sales director at Weyerhaeuser Products Ltd, which manufacturers Medite, said the extension and refit presented a variety of challenges, including blending the old with the new.
He said high, strong, joint-free walls were required to allow artistic presentation of the works and a construction solution was designed by architect Gilroy McMahon.
Based on other work such as the Tate Modern in London, a wall construction of 25mm Medite FR MDF from Weyerhaeuser was used and secured into a 92mm S10 Gyprock stud system.
The MDF was then faced with a 12.5mm plasterboard and the finished result has provided walls that are joint-free, neutral and strong and able to take fixings at any point to secure the heavy works of art.
Where fire regulations had to be met in the building, Medite FR MDF was specified – otherwise Medite Premier MDF was used.
More than 75m3 of Medite MDF has been used to date for wall lining elements and the building also has many lineal metres of Medite MR MDF in the form of window boards and skirting trims.
Mr Rhodes said Weyerhaeuser had provided design solutions in the specialist field of museums and galleries worldwide.