In April 2014, Ethicon Biosurgery, part of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, announced plans to invest €80 million in a manufacturing facility at the National Technology Park, Limerick. The new facility will manufacture EVARREST Sealant Matrix, a product that rapidly and reliably aids in stopping bleeding during surgery. The existing building was originally built in 2001 by Optech Europe. In 2008, Johnson and Johnson purchased the facility. LEED: Sustainable Development ...

  Author: Seamus Hoyne BEng MEng MSc chartered engineer, head of Department for Flexible Learning, Limerick Institute of Technology The skills and knowledge gaps that must be addressed if Ireland is to achieve its targets in relation to near-Zero-Energy Buildings (NZEB) will be the focus of a major conference and training event on 15-16 October. The ‘Better than Best Practice – Skills and Knowledge to Achieve Near-Zero-Energy Building’ conference is being held at the Wood Quay Venue in ...

  Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) has gone where no other Irish institution has gone before. It has landed an experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) that could deliver a breakthrough to successfully growing crops in extreme conditions on earth. The LIT project, which was chosen along with eight other global winners from global research competition Space Florida/NanoRacks ISS Research Competition to be flown to the ISS, will explore over the next month how the ...

  Client: SSE Renewables; Main contractor: Roadbridge The Athea windfarm site is situated approximately 6km north of the town of Abbeyfeale and close to the village of Athea in the west of County Limerick. The site stretches across a variety of habitats, including upland blanket bog and heath, coniferous tree plantations and rough agricultural grassland. The Athea Wind Farm was constructed by Roadbridge on behalf of SSE Renewables. The civil engineering works for this project ...

  Thomond Park Stadium is the home ground of Munster Rugby, one of the most successful and best-supported rugby clubs in the world. The famous venue, renowned for its unique history and atmosphere, has been redeveloped and now boasts an increased capacity of 25,600, plus an extensive range of conference and banqueting facilities that have further enhanced its reputation. Since 2009, Thomond Park has been working to reduce the environmental impact of managing the stadium by ...

  Author: Pádraic Ó hUiginn, communications programme manager, Technology Centre for Biorefining and Bioenergy  A closed landfill site outside Cologne and Bonn in north-west Germany was where Prof Michael Bongards of Cologne University of Applied Sciences’ Institute for Automation & Industrial IT welcomed the ReNEW Network to its April work session on developing the circular economy in North West Europe. [caption id="attachment_13646" align="alignright" width="1024"] Circular ...