Experience

Coillte

• Ireland
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Consultant Engineer - Ex Chief Engineer

  • Mar 1977 - Present

  Involved in the design and management of low cost civil engineering works including roads, bridges and windfarms. Co-Author of forestry road design manual.

• Chief Civil Engineer

  • 1977 - 2008

  >Responsible for the Engineering function within Coillte Teo and ensuring adequate access for extraction of the annual timber harvest.>Responsible for construction of 150kms of a new unbound road and ancillary engineering works and the upgrade of 200kms of existing roads annually.>Care and maintenance of the existing 10,000kms road network, servicing the Coillte Estate.>Liaising with all statutory bodies (Local Authorities, Fisheries, NPWS. NGO's etc) on compliance with best practice environmental guidelines.>Negotiating,agreeing and establishment of funding between DOE and Coillte to ensure an annual programme of Public Road restoration - to minimise and eliminate damages caused by fully laden timber trucks.>Management of engineering staff to ensure that the 'just in time' road policy was implemented annually.>Attendance at Senior Management Board Meetings> Delivery of infrastructural projects on time and within budget, on a project by project basis of c. 1,000 projects per annum.PAPERSCo-Author of 'Forest Road Manual' - Widely used as principal technical manual in the construction of Forest Roads. Published on behalf of Coford. (2002)Consultant with Coillte Consult - commissioned by the World Bank in establishing guidelines for accessing the Romanian National Forestry. (2005)Paper on 'Timber Piled Road' at Unbound Aggregates Conference - Delivered at University of Nottingham (2004) Developed guidelines in the use of local stone for the construction of pavements in forest roads - in conjunction with National University Ireland Galway (NUIG) (2003)Paper on 'Reverse Roads' to FEG Conference (2000)