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
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 31st 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.