Young engineers conference 2024

Aideen is a Graduate Structural Engineer at Mott MacDonald, based in County Cork, Ireland. She graduated from Munster Technological University in 2023 with a Master’s in Structural Engineering and is Co-Chair of the IStructE Northern Ireland and Ireland, Young Members Group for 2024.

Jamie is a Civil Infrastructure Engineer at Design ID Consulting in Hillsborough, Northern Ireland. He graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 2023 and serves as Co-Chair of the Northern Ireland and Ireland IStructE Young Members Group. Jamie represents Ireland on the IStructE Council.

Prof. Jamie Goggins is Director at Construct Innovate, which is Ireland's national research centre for construction technology and innovation. He is also on the management team and Principal Investigator in the MaREI Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine, which includes 13 Universities, approximately 220 researchers and 50 industry partners. He was appointed as the 7th Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Galway in 2020. Within the University of Galway, he has also served as Director of Research & Innovation in the School of Engineering and has led the development and delivery of the first two Sustainability Strategies for the university in his role as Chair of CUSP. He has been lead principal investigator on over 80 research projects in the past fifteen years, most in collaboration with industry. He is an advocate for sustainable development.

Conor has recently moved to the Irish Concrete Federation, where he is Head of Sustainability, and he is a Chartered Engineer both with the ICE and IStructE.

Having earned a degree on Engineering with the University College Dublin, and a Master of Study in Interdisciplinary design for the built environment with the University of Cambridge, Conor started his career at Arup and was involved in many noteworthy projects, including:

• Brunel Building, London

• Qatar National Museum, Doha

• Yongsan International Business District, Seoul

• Dublin Airport Terminal 2

• Grand Canal Square Theatre and Offices, Dublin

• Pajule Secondary School, Uganda

• Bolands Quay & Bolands Quay Google Expansion

• Rapid Build Surgical Hubs  (Cork, Limerick & Waterford)

Conor grew at Arup to the Associate role, in which capacity he led embodied carbon and data analytics workstream for Arup's WLC initiative, which pledged to measure the whole-life carbon of all of Arup's global portfolio of building projects. He was also Europe Region representative on Arup's Global Net Zero Carbon Buildings steering group.

Fionnuala Hayes became a Chartered Member of the IStructE in 2009. She graduated with Distinction from Imperial College, London (MSc) in 2002 and from University of Galway (B.E. Civil (Hons)) in 2001. She won a number of awards and bursaries as a graduate including the Dowling Steel Prize, NUI Bursary in Civil Engineering, P.J. Tobin Gold Medal and SCI Bursary. 

She has a wealth of industry experience from her time working as a Principal Structural Engineer at multidisciplinary consultancies in Ireland and the UK.  She delivered a variety of public and private projects while working at Capita, OCSC, AECOM and BDP. Some of her most notable projects include Leeds Grand Theatre, Joseph Chamberlain College (UK Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award 2009), LinkedIn EMEA HQ and Irelands New Children’s Hospital.

She has been lecturing at TU Dublin since 2018 with research interests including timber construction, hybrid materials and Irish Building Control. 

Shane graduated with a 1st class honour's degree in structural engineering from the Technological University Dublin. He has worked ORS Consulting Engineers and Barrett Mahony Consulting Engineers as a Structural Engineer and then joined Kiernan Steel in 2022 as Engineering Manager. Shane is also a Chartered Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers MIStructE.

Des is a structural engineer and business development professional, with a career spanning a range of senior technical, operational, sales, marketing, and communications roles over 30 years in the forestry and forest products sector.
Working closely with industry, he leads the marketing and promotion of homegrown timber products and supports the Irish forest products sector to drive growth in end-markets and to promote and support innovation and product development.
He is also a wood scientist, member of the NSAI Timber Standards Consultative Committee, past President of the Irish Bioenergy Association and has co-authored a 400-page timber specifiers guide called Woodspec.

Stephen has a number of years experience in the construction industry and has worked with many traditional and modern methods of construction and has led on notable large and smaller scale commercial, education, industrial and high-rise developments projects in the UK and overseas.
After graduating from Nottingham Trent University in 1999 with an honours degree in Structural & Civil Engineering, Stephen started his career with Contractor RG Carter, where he developed a keen eye for constructability and building sequencing, which enabled him to understand and overcome issues at the early project stages - minimising project risks and increasing cost certainty during the construction process.
Stephen worked for Ramboll (whitbybird) and was involved in a number of specialist Engineering groups, including the Technical Excellence representative for the Cambridge office, and chair of the Ramboll High-Rise Task Group.
Today, Stephen is a Director at Design ID, and he enthusiasticly engages with the industry, through talks (recently he has givren them to the ICE, IStructE, Concrete Society, and St Petersburg (Russia) Government).
Stephen is also guest tutor at Queens University Belfast, and the University of Ulster School of Planning.
In 2005 Stephen was runner-up in the Institution of Structural Engineers, Young Structural Engineer of the Year.

As the Architecture Leader for Arup in Ireland, Lisa applies her 22 years of experience and expertise in urban design and resilience, community co-design, sustainable development and climate adaptation and mitigation to create impactful and innovative built environments. She has a master's degree in International cooperation: sustainable emergency architecture and a certificate in Circular economy and sustainability strategies from Cambridge Judge Business School.

Prior to joining Arup, Lisa worked in the role of International Technical Advisor for Housing, Infrastructure and Urban Design at Catholic Relief Services, where she provided technical support to country programmes engaged in infrastructure and construction activities. She also developed market-based shelter and settlements solutions in humanitarian responses, linking them to long-term development strategies. Additionally, she trained technical staff in good construction practices and construction management strategies, and administered construction contracts for the agency.