The Roads and Transportation society is for engineers with an interest in road and rail design, transport planning and traffic engineering.
The Active Travel Series shares knowledge on the planning, design and delivery of walking and cycling schemes. The free-to-attend webinars are delivered by the National Transport Authority in collaboration with the Engineers Ireland Roads and Transportation Society. Learn more here.
The draft Greater Dublin Area Cycle Network Plan, which was launched on 4 September, is the culmination of over a year's work by the National Transport Authority (NTA) and AECOM-Roughan & O'Donovan (ROD) Alliance consultants. It sets out a vision and a strategy for the construction and designation of a comprehensive network of cycling routes throughout the greater Dublin area in counties Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Wicklow. At a presentation last Wednesday in Engineers Ireland HQ, ...
Author: Tim Ahern BE CEng FIEI, chartered engineer and freelance consultant This paper is a personal review of public procurement in Ireland. It is based on my experience with the National Roads Authority (NRA), where a major infrastructure programme was delivered on time and within budget. The NRA’s procurement strategy was progressive and innovative. Significant opposition was raised against many of the practices introduced but, in all cases, real and meaningful negotiations were ...
Eamonn O'Reilly, chartered engineer and chief executive of Dublin Port Company, is speaking at Engineers Ireland’s 2013 Annual Conference, entitled ‘Building Ireland’s Business Networks’, on Thursday, 6 June at Dublin’s Ballsbridge Hotel For a city by the sea, Ireland’s capital is curiously unconnected to Dublin Port. The country’s main port handles almost 50% of the Republic’s trade, two thirds of all containerised trade and is the largest of the three base ports on the island, the ...
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