Environmental engineers: Mott MacDonald Pettit
North side engineers: Spanish consultancy Epitsa & PH McCarthy(WYG)
South side engineers: Arup and CFCSL

Don O Sullivan of CIF and Barry B LePatner, a solicitor with expertise in contracts come head to head on the issue of fixed price contracts and examine the Pro's and Con's involved in this contentious area.

It is likely that the next 18 months will be rough sailing for the industry, and engineers need to watch out to make sure they don’t get wet in the process. As legal firms beef up their corporate recovery units, CE gathers a panel of experts including Jim Hayde of MD, Jacobs Engineering and Padraic Monaghan, Director of KPMG, to flesh out what you need to do to ‘batten down the hatches’.

In Ireland, biomass conversion and electrolysis driven by wind power currently provide the greatest potential for renewable hydrogen production, which is a non polluting fuel, says John P Breen.

In his first blog in a series exclusively for irishconstruction.com Oliver Plunkett, the newly appointed Structural Engineer Director at BDP discusses his arrival to our shores to take up his role.