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Configuration management: An overviewJune 12, 2018

First developed in the Cold War, configuration management was conceived to prevent common project afflictions of scope creep, poor documentation, and undisciplined change to a product (the output of a project) throughout its lifecycle

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Crossrail: Overview and Paddington station design and optimisationMay 29, 2018

The final design for Crossrail's new underground station at Paddington has been driven by efficiency, buildability, physical constraints, functionality, passenger experience and the need to provide a station appropriate to the location and historical setting

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Construction projects and soft logic? Time for some hard talkMay 29, 2018

Seán FitzSimons investigates hard and soft logic links in construction projects and makes the case for avoiding the use of soft logic without any consideration for resources

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Constructed wetlands of Ireland and the birth of the online databaseMay 29, 2018

As part of an EPA-funded project, NUI Galway researchers identified a need for a coherent, comprehensive and an up-to-date database of constructed wetlands performance in Ireland

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An investigation of draught reduction measures and their impact on building air qualityMay 15, 2018

Rosanne Walker and Sara Pavia investigate the success of a range of draught retrofitting measures at reducing air leakage from houses and whether there is a resulting impact on indoor air quality

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Lessons from the Malahide Viaduct collapseMay 15, 2018

Sean Brady investigates the contribution of ‘corporate memory loss’ to the failure of a railway bridge in Malahide, Dublin, in 2009

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Building conservation, seismic engineering and post-disaster reconstruction: An overviewMay 15, 2018

Alfonso Ramirez Marchena provides a personal account and some key insights, shared by speakers at the recently held Seismic Summit, regarding building conservation and post-disaster reconstruction

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Claridges Hotel: Construction of the five-storey ‘iceberg’ basementMay 1, 2018

Methods employed in hotel's basement construction not unusual, but the techniques - and working in restricted headroom under a live building - make the project the first of its kind and opens the way to have concurrent development and occupancy

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From engineering to the end line, it’s all in a week’s work for Mayo’s Tom ParsonsMay 1, 2018

Mayo vice-captain and principal engineer at Jacobs, the Westerner says time management and resilience are key to achieving excellence – whether focused on a round ball or project managing a highways team, writes James Harrington

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This park planned to be built in NYC functions as a flood barrierMay 1, 2018

The East Side Coastal Resiliency Project is an initiative that aims to respond to the unique challenges of climate change that the city of New York faces, and will continue to face in upcoming years, writes Mario Major

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The design and construction of Rathmorrissy Junction: An analysisApril 17, 2018

Design co-ordinator Seán FitzSimons of Clandillon Civil Consulting and Noel Curtis of John Sisk provide their insights into the design and construction of the interchange at the heart of the scheme

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Protecting the house buyer – an overviewApril 17, 2018

With 550,000 households due to be built by 2040, there will be a big need for engineers and others to provide a comprehensive service to house buyers, so make sure you ask the right questions, writes John Garrett

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World’s largest 3D-printed steel bridge built by robots in six monthsApril 17, 2018

Alan Turing Institute in data-centric engineering and startup MX3D reveal completed span of the world’s largest 3D-printed metal structure, a 12m-long stainless steel bridge, writes Loukia Papadopoulos

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Why do bridges fail?April 3, 2018

What are the most common causes of bridge failure, and are they as intuitive as we think? Sean Brady takes the Florida International University collapse as a starting point for trying to understand why bridge infrastructure can sometimes fail

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Harry Nicholls: Trinity’s ‘Prod rebel’ engineer who fought in 1916 Easter RisingApril 3, 2018

Harry Nicholls is the only known Trinity graduate who took part in the 1916 Rising, where he was based in the College of Surgeons with Countess Markievicz, and here we take a look at this remarkable engineering instructor to the Fourth battalion

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Why contracts, project boards and dispute avoidance matter in major building projectsApril 3, 2018

Greg Power writes that what every successful contract needs is a ‘dispute avoidance task force’ - be it one person, or a few - and it will involve a lot of communication, so choose the force wisely as ‘soft skills’ will be a must

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Why I want to be an engineer (Part II): Five fascinating storiesMarch 20, 2018

From returning to the coalface following time off to raise a family; to flying at short notice to a drillship off Uruguay; to thinking outside the box and considering pregnant cyclists; to dreaming of being an engineer in Ireland while on a train in Italy; to being an advocate for women in sport and STEM, these fascinating five tell their story

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The Nant de Drance Hydropower Scheme – brief overview of the civil worksMarch 20, 2018

Located in the Valais region of Switzerland, the €1.6bn Nant de Drance project involves adding a 900 MW pumped-storage power plant to an existing hydropower scheme by connecting the two existing reservoirs of Emosson and Vieux-Emosson

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Statute of Limitations in property damage claims: The implicationsMarch 20, 2018

The question of when damage was capable of being discovered will now become the new battleground in property damage claims where there is a possible Statute of Limitations defence

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Changing engineering workflows from 2D to 6DMarch 6, 2018

Declan Byrne explains how by integrating every stage of the workflow with the help of hardware and software, and connecting these through the cloud, it is possible for engineers to access the real-time data they need on site, whenever they need it

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