BCAR & The Technical Guidance Documents Conference 2019

He is a European Engineer and Chartered Engineer with a BEng in Electroacoustics from the Department of Applied Acoustics at the University of Salford. He is a corporate member of Engineers Ireland and the Institute of Acoustics with over thirty years’ experience in the field of acoustics; he has been a consultant since 1989. Chris was a member of the Working Group that assisted with the redrafting of the 2014 Building Regulations update relating to Sound, as well as the associated Technical Guidance Document. He is the lead author of technical documents published by, inter alia, Transport Infrastructure Ireland (formerly the NRA) and the Environmental Protection Agency. He is a founder member of the Sound Insulation Testing Register Ireland (SITRI) and has lectured at TCD, UCD, NUI Galway and NUI Maynooth.

He is Chairman of the NSAI Construction Standards Consultative Committee overseeing the Construction Sector Standards Program 2018 – 2022.

He is a Chartered Surveyor, Chartered Building Engineer & Environmentalist and a member of the Architects Registration Board, the Construction Industry Registration Ireland (CIRI) Board and a former member of the Building Surveyors Registration Board. He served on the SI 105 BCAR Board for alternative compliance proposals for Health & Schools Projects.

He Immediate Past Chairman of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Republic of Ireland region and Past President of the Irish Building Control Institute (IBCI). He project-managed the development and delivery of the QQI National Building Control/Regulations competency certificated training programme.

OHAC is one of the leading specialists in access consultancy and training in Ireland. Established in 2007, the goal of OHAC is to make services and buildings accessible for everyone.  They work in partnership with national and international clients to ensure that their built environment, services, human resources and information provision are accessible to all staff and customers regardless of age, size or disability.

With over fourteen years experience working as an accessibility consultant and trainer, Eoin has advised clients including the National Disability Authority, The European Commission; Dublin Castle, Cantrell and Crowley Architects; the Health Service Executive; University College Cork; The Department of Education and Skills; John Sisk and Sons; European Network for Accessible Tourism; National Standards Authority of Ireland; Microsoft; The Irish Wheelchair Association; Age Friendly Ireland;  Kennedy Wilson; Dublin City Council; Henry J Lyons Architects; Dublin Institute of Technology and the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government.

Jim Mansfield is the Chair of an NSAI Committee “Eurocodes Consultative Committee” which deals with the impact of the Eurocode suite of design standards in Ireland. This committee also looks at the impact on the Irish Construction Industry of a number of related standards which includes EN 1090.

Jim Mansfield has lectured on a number of topics related to the Eurocodes to various organisations in recent years.

Jim Mansfield is currently Chair person of the Irish Concrete Society, which is a not for profit Society supporting technical excellence in the design and construction of concrete with members from all sections including design, production and construction.

He was a contributor and sat on the steering committees of the following best practice guidance documents;

• CIRIA C716 (2012) Remediating and mitigating risks from VOC vapours from land affected by contamination
• CIRIA C735 (2014) Good practice on the testing and verification of protection systems for buildings against hazardous ground gases

Michael carries out regular training for local authority CIEH contaminated land officers and building control departments in Northern Ireland and has carried out consultation and advisory work for the EPA and DOE in Ireland. He began lecturing on the Environmental Engineering post graduate course at Trinity College in Dublin on contaminated land in 2017

He is an experienced chartered building engineer, chartered architectural technologist and was many years the principal in his own building surveying and fire safety consultancy practice prior to joining i3pt. He has lectured in construction technology and fire safety design in DIT and has presented fire safety and fire safe construction presentations to the Irish Regions of the Institution of Fire Engineers and Chartered Association of Building Engineers. He is a visiting lecturer to the PG Professional Diploma (Architecture Course) in UCD & is a lecturer on the fire safety module of the SCSI Higher Cert. in Quantity Surveying Course in DIT.

He is currently working as an Assigned Certifier on a number of large scale commercial and residential developments.

He returned to Ireland in 2001 to a position in Galway but relocated to Dun Laoghaire in 2005 and shortly thereafter joined RPS as a Construction Manager in the Dun Laoghaire office concentrating on landfill projects in their Waste & Energy Section. Currently, he is working on the Dublin Airport Fuel Farm redevelopment project and has current Assigned Certifier roles on pharmaceutical, social accommodation and commercial projects and has completed a small hospital building project in the same capacity.

He represented Engineers Ireland (with others) in the original BC(A)R consultation process and was their sole representative on the working group that originally developed the suite of Ancillary Certificates and the associated Practice Notes that have followed that exercise.

IN2 is a modern building services specialising in low energy design for domestic and commercial buildings with offices in Dublin, London, Athlone and Belfast.

As part of IN2’s environmental department, William works closely with Architects and design teams from early sketch design to integrate passive design measures into the design philosophy of each building. Specialist areas include: dynamic simulation (DSM); computational fluid dynamics (CFD); daylight / sunlight / right to light / obtrusive light analysis; Part L and NZEB compliance; building portfolio energy benchmarking.

William is a chartered engineer with over 12 years’ experience as a Building Services Engineer and is an accredited LEED AP, BREEAM AP and CIBSE Low Carbon Consultant. William is currently sitting as a director on the Board of the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC).