Fáilte go Fixie - Fixie launches in Ireland
The regular trips across the Irish Sea over the last few months have paid off. No, we’re not running because of Brexit - we’re growing in spite of it! Fixie is now –in an extremely timely fashion– both a UK company and a European company, more specifically an Irish one.
Fixie Co-Founder, Ronan O’Boyle has been relishing the opportunity to work from Ireland again. ‘It’s been a number of years since I’ve been properly on the ground in Dublin, there’s a tremendous buzz and we’ve had such a positive reception for what we’re offering.’
Fixie has plans beyond it’s day-to-day offering (for those wondering: fast turn around, beautifully detailed and affordable architectural models delivered through a combination of 3D printing and traditional methods). We’re excited to explore and contribute to ongoing initiatives in Ireland in an effort to improve the communication of built environment issues and the delivery of quality solutions. Ireland is suffering from a housing emergency and communicating possible solutions effectively to all stakeholders will be a first step to solving some of these issues.
Fixie’s Irish operations will be centred in Dublin’s ever changing Docklands with an encouraging Start-Up ecosystem at Dogpatch Labs. To celebrate our new location guess what we did - we 3D printed one of the local landmarks of course: Dublin’s Samuel Beckett Bridge designed by Santiago Calatrava that opened in 2009. We’ll be happy to see the real thing every day on the way to work.
Michelle Greeff, Fixie CEO, has been encouraged by her interactions in Ireland. ‘The Irish economy seems to have recovered well and the construction sector is alive here. What I’ve found remarkably refreshing here is how open and engaged architects are in our new ways and new possibilities of delivering architectural models.’ Michelle believes that our experience working with all scale of architectural and property development firms in the UK will assist in meeting the varied and particular needs of Irish clients. ‘Our expertise in preparing all manner of architectural files should offer Irish architects a new means to communicate their projects.’
Although our Irish home will be in Dublin, we will be serving the whole country and visiting the other major cities over the coming months and looking forward to meeting existing clients and new on these trips in person.
If you want to learn more about our services and 3D printing solutions please reach out to Ronan at info@fixie3d.com or call the Irish office on +353 1 960 9604.