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This year will see the launch of Griffiths & Armour’s latest publication, ‘Constructing Change –

Evolving the Status Quo or Time to Reset’. The document follows extensive engagement with our clients and other interested parties over the past 18-months and examines key challenges facing the construction, insurance and legal sectors, whilst also recognising the opportunity to deliver real change.

Read more about Griffiths & Armour’s work with The Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland (ACEI) Here.

ConsultA is an information ezine for ACEI members established in March 2020. On a monthly basis, the ezine covers the key issues facing the consulting engineering profession at national, EU and global levels.

ConsultA contains useful advice and critical information for member firms to support their businesses. In addition, ConsultA tells the story of the ACEI members and the brilliant work they undertake daily. Members are welcome to contribute to the ezine in many ways. Those wishing to do so should click here.

Included in the newsletter are weblinks to the European (EFCA) and International consulting engineering association (FIDIC).

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The ACEI is delighted to welcome Kelly O’Connor to the team. Kelly joins us from the communications department of Dublin City Council and will take up the role of Executive in the Association. She brings a wealth of experience in marketing, communications, PR, and stakeholder management.

Kelly will focus on increasing the number of companies joining the ACEI community, growing our online presence, building our reputation with external stakeholders, and supporting the work of ACEI communities. She will play a pivotal role in telling the ACEI’s story and that of the excellent work of its members across Ireland and globally. This will help highlight the role the consulting engineering sector plays and will play in resolving Ireland’s housing, infrastructure, and climate crises.

I hope you will join me welcoming Kelly to the ACEI; I know she will have a rewarding, challenging and prosperous career working with the ACEI and its members.

Shane

Shane Dempsey, ACEI Secretary General

The EFCA newsletter has just been published, it contains information on the following:

The full newsletter is available here.

There has been an update to the software on the eTenders platform, which took place on 5th February 2024. The update to the platform software provides enhancements in the following areas:

Enhancement to Qualification Systems for the Utilities Sector
Inclusion of messaging functionality for DPS tenders
Inclusion manual creation of Qualification Systems
Adjustment to the operation of Part III B of the ESPD Request
Offline evaluation – Inclusion of a printer friendly report that associates the submitted files with the decryption key that the platform provides
Inclusion of eForms notices in search results
Ability to create standalone award notices directly to the TED Portal via eTenders

Please review these release notes for further information. Any queries should be directed to: OGP’s Client Service Team at support@ogp.gov.ie or Tel: +35317738000

Noel Kane ACEI President 2002 – RIP

Noel graduated from UCD in 1965 with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering. He spent over 40 years with Garland culminating in his role as Chairperson from 2002 to 2019. He became ACEI President in 2002 and worked tirelessly on behalf of the Association during his tenure. See Garland’s memorial in honor of Noel here.ACEI sends sincere condolences and sympathy to Noels’ family, friends and colleagues; he will be greatly missed.

Funeral arrangements can be found on rip.ie.

This year’s EFCA Future Leaders’ competition is special as some changes have been made to the Competition. The spotlight is on the Future Leader! With the introduction of new submission processes, and five new excellence categories, we want to highlight the role of the Future Leaders within a project. For the first time ever, entries can be submitted in a free form, including, but not limited to pdf, video, ppt, and prezi. Creativity is encouraged and rewarded with the introduction of a new excellence category specifically recognising the quality of the submission presentation.

The other new excellence categories are:

Engineering,
Digital & New Technologies,
Impact on Climate & Biodiversity,
Contribution to Society.

Further information is available here.

Please note the deadline for application is the 31^st of March 2024.

Project: Vartry Water Supply Scheme

Description: The project comprises a 4km piped replacement of the Callowhill Tunnel, an 80 megalitre/day treatment plant and an 80 megalitre storage reservoir supplying 200,000 consumers. It had numerous stakeholders and interest groups coupled with critical interfaces including SAC’s and Grade A dams. Planning permission was a significant risk which led to its division into three independent projects. The consultant prepared a detailed Stakeholder Engagement Plan and assigned a senior resource to manage same. A highly complex and critical project which would not have enjoyed the ultimate success that it did without expert engineering project management.

Read more at their website. If you’d like to be featured in a future edition of ConsultA or as a spotlight member, get in touch with Kelly at kelly.oconnor@acei.ie.

Project: 70 St. Stephen’s Green

Description: A 7,000 m2 office development of five storeys over double basement. The building achieved nZEB, BER A3, LEED Platinum and WELL accreditations. The project was an early forerunner for nZEB compliance before this was either mandatory or usual. The scheme uses many significant innovative design approaches including night time ice generation and the reuse of waste heat to provide a highly efficient building. The consultant used extensive dynamic system simulation to achieve a 26% energy saving through various innovative measures. The project was Highly Commended in the RIAI 2021 Sustainability Awards.

Read more at their website, if you’d like to be featured in a future edition of ConsultA or as a spotlight member, get in touch with Kelly at kelly.oconnor@acei.ie Find out more about our members in our members directory – Here.