IrelandSkills Live (RDS Simmonscourt, 21 – 23 March 2019) is a new initiative aimed at addressing the skills shortage in Ireland across all industry sectors. The objective is to tackle head on the negative perceptions students, their parents – and in some cases their teachers and career advisers – have about apprenticeships or skills as...Read More
DIT Bolton St was the venue recently for an intimate audience who gathered to witness the eight annual SDAR Awards final organised and hosted by the School of Electrical and the Electronic Engineering and School of Multidisciplinary Technologies. This awards scheme is one of two significant CIBSE Ireland applied research events intended to disseminate best...Read More
As a now grey-haired senior building services engineer, it has been intriguing to see how the industry has developed over the last 40 years. I was at lunch recently with some fellow senior engineers – most of whom are still involved in the industry – and we started reminiscing and talking about the impact of...Read More
This year's CIBSE Ireland Student Awards at DIT were sponsored by Hevac and thepresentations were made by Aaron Brogan, Hevac Technical Sales Manager. Seamus Murphy was confirmed as winner by the judges with CIBSE Chairman, David Doherty making the announcement.Read More
The idea of pursuing a masters in a foreign country struck me while I was doing my Bachelors in Engineering in India. Hearing from my seniors about their experiences when they came back home or phoned, I would sit and think “how I wish I could also do my masters in a foreign country”. However,...Read More
There were five excellent presentations dealing with diverse topics across the spectrum of sustainable design in the engineering and built environment sectors at the recent SDAR Awards finals. The topics ranged from energy management, energy management benchmarking and energy entrepreneurship, to challenging engineers to be less techno/eco-centric and instead to design on the basis of broader...Read More
According to Vincent Gibson, Construction Innovation Lab, Ireland’s construction sector is undergoing a revolution through Lean. However, this revolution is not one where subversive engineers and tradesmen take to the streets … this movement has adopted more subtle approaches. Lean is not new. Lean is lots of things and, in the words of Dr Richard...Read More
BIM is not about the future … it is about now. Building professionals and contractors not adopting BIM are like airlines not using online booking … they will soon go out of business.Read More
A large turnout of industry representatives and research academics recently attended the official launch of the third edition of the SDAR Journal in the Penthouse of the DIT Kevin St Campus Building in Dublin. The occasion was also used to present the Irish Lighter and Young Lighter Awards.Read More
The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (SEEE) at the Dublin Institute of Technology is the largest education provider in the electrical and electronic engineering space in Ireland in terms of programme diversity (apprentice to PhD), staff and student numbers. Based in Dublin city centre (Kevin Street) and established since 1887, the school prides itself...Read More
