President - PJ Rudden, Chartered Engineer
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PJ Rudden qualified in Civil Engineering from UCD in 1975. A native of Cavan , his early career was with Dublin Corporation (now Dublin City Council) and with MC O'Sullivan Consulting Engineers and Westmeath County Council in the Midlands on water supply, wastewater, roads and bridges. In 1982 he was seconded to Bord Gáis as Project Engineer on the Dublin end of the Cork Dublin Gas Pipeline and the North Eastern Gas Pipeline in North County Dublin.
He returned to MCOS in 1985 and helped to build the Dublin office business in water/wastewater services and motorways into the early 1990s, notably on the Dublin Belfast Motorway through Co. Louth and water / wastewater projects in Co. Wicklow. He led MCOS’s diversification into energy, waste management and environmental projects becoming a Partner and Director, leading the formulation and public communications on Ireland's first regional waste management plans. These plans charted much of the national transformation of waste management leading to dramatic increases in national recycling levels from 7% to 38%. He won the UCD Inaugural Distinguished Graduate Award for this work in 2002.
He was responsible for opening the Galway offices of MCOS in 2001. In the late 1990s he was responsible as Consultant Project Director for Bord Gáis for the Gas 2025 Study, which was the National Strategy for Security of Supply recommending construction of the Second UK Gas Interconnector, Gas Pipeline to the West, South North Pipeline, an LNG Terminal in the South West and connection to the then emerging Corrib Field.
Since 2007 he is assisting the Corrib Partners in planning, routing, EIS and construction supervision of the modified Onshore Pipeline Route in Mayo including communications and local stakeholder aspects.
He is still very involved in the development of the waste management industry promoting the integration of waste prevention, recycling, energy recovery (including district heating) and residual disposal. He is a member of the EU Commission Evaluation Panel for the European Green Capital City Award 2010 - 2013.
He has published widely on waste management, energy and environmental issues. He is a holder of three Mullins Silver Medals and a Smith Testimonial for papers presented to Engineers Ireland. He is currently Extern Examiner for the BE (Hons) Degree in Civil Engineering at DIT. He is active in Dublin Chamber of Commerce on the Green Economy Group and on the IBEC/CBI North South Business Council.