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Ireland's 25 most powerful women unveiled at WXN awards ceremony
About 650 people attended the celebrations to mark the Women’s Executive Network’s Ireland’s Most Powerful Women: Top 25 Awards in Dublin’s InterContinental hotel. Female leaders who won or spoke at...
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Wastewater infrastructure co. Black & Veatch opens offices in Dublin and Cork
To strengthen its support for Ireland’s water and energy sectors Black & Veatch http://bv.com/ has opened two new Irish offices. For nearly 20 years the company has helped manage and develop...
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Revealed (via Twitter): So this is what an engineer really looks like
Thanks to a recruitment ad for a Silicon Valley tech company, OneLogin, a campaign highlighting diversity among engineers has gone viral as thousands of female engineers – and those from minority...
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The MooMonitor+ and how technology is impacting on animals
Technology has changed and continues to change our lives – but it can also change the lives of cows. What does every farmer want? Easy, accurate heat detection, more calves at the right time, healthy...
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Time for another revolution in smartphone technology
“Smartphones are really complicated. Just for the basic stuff people have a hard time figuring out how to use them.” As Apple chief executive, Steve Jobs made these observations when he launched the...
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Cost of failed projects – is it time to rethink our approach?
Author: Raymond Poole, managing director of Program Management Information Services Ltd, has over 30 years’ experience in the programme and project management environment. He has acted as project...
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The Borders Railway: rebuilding a 50km Victorian railway
Authors: Brendan Meagher BE MIEI and Keith Tully BEng CEng MIEI, BAM contractors In September 2015, the longest domestic railway construction project in the UK in more than a century opened to...
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Dare we dream of a password-free future?
Memorising random strings of letters, numbers and symbols seems like an inevitable nuisance of internet life, but new devices currently under development could ease the burden by rendering passwords...
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The implications of fly-in fly-out commuting
Long-distance commuters are no longer considered a rare breed; in fact, almost every large organisation has this type of employee among their ranks and their numbers are growing. Long-distance...
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Citicorp Center Tower: how failure was averted
Based on an article originally published in ‘The New Yorker’, Sean Brady reflects on the Citicorp tower crisis One day in June 1978, William LeMessurier, then 52 years old and one of North America’s...
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Revision of the drainage standards for major national road projects
Author: Christian Nea, senior engineer, environmental policy and compliance section, Transport Infrastructure Ireland.[1] In March 2015, the National Roads Authority1 (NRA) finished significantly...
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Hartford stadium collapse: why software should never be more than a tool to...
Picture the scenario: it is 1971 and you have just received your new, state-of-the-art, structural analysis software package. It is exciting, especially given that it was purchased specifically for the...
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Japanese knotweed jeopardises delivery of Irish engineering projects
Discovering invasive alien plant species (IAPS) at building development or infrastructure sites can mean significant delays and substantial costs, jeopardising the delivery of engineering projects on...
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The Dodder and Poddle: mills, storms and the public water supply
To be in with a chance of winning one of three copies of The Rivers Dodder and Poddle: Mills, Storms, Droughts and the Public Water Supply, simply e-mail info@fourcourtspress.ie with the answer to the...
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Potential problems with the Construction Contracts Act, 2013
The Irish Construction Contracts Act, 2013 will apply to all construction contracts entered into after 25 July 2016. The Act introduces new payment provisions and also gives a party to a construction...
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SuperHomes project aims to provide deep retrofit for Irish homeowners
Tipperary Energy Agency has been working on domestic retrofit projects since 2004, supporting the retrofit of thousands of houses. It has acted as project co-ordinator for a number of Sustainable...
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Protecting the asset: investing in the future of Ireland’s motorway network
With significant economic development in the 1990s and 2000s came the construction of the motorways in Ireland. In 2000, the network extended to approximately 350km. This increased to 1,224km by 2010,...
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Is it ‘back to the future’ for data centres – and should they be built in...
Marty McFly had his own unique approach to problem solving in the Back to the Future films, but there is, in practical terms, an awful lot of merit in applying what has successfully worked in the past...
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William Dargan – the engineer who rejuvenated a nation on its knees
In 1867, a great Irishman was laid to rest. An honour guard of 700 rail-workers and a funeral cortege of 230 carriages mournfully processed to Glasnevin Cemetery and his mortal remains were...
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CE marking of structural steel – an update for engineers
Since 1 July 2014, CE Marking of structural steelwork has become mandatory for fabricated structural steelwork in accordance with EN 1090-1. It is essential that all parties to the steel construction...
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