EIRENG - Key Persons
Conor graduated with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Structural Engineering with Architecture from University College Dublin in 2011 and was awarded a Masters in the same subject in 2013. In 2019 he was elected to Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Engineers Ireland.
Conor joined EirEng Consulting Engineers directly after coming out of College in 2013, keen to be part of a design consultancy that could provide him with the opportunity to work across a variety of projects and roles. He has remained with EirEng since then and has progressed through the ranks to his promotion to Director in 2022.
With EirEng, Conor has attained a great deal of experience designing in steel, concrete and timber on projects related to logistics, retail, leisure, and residential sectors. As well as developing a strong aptitude for 3D modelling and analysis of complex large-scale structures, Conor maintains an approach of going to first principles to ensure that design solutions are accurate and optimised.
Conor appreciates the importance of building relationships and communicating regularly with clients, contractors, and members of the design team in order to develop each project in an efficient manner and achieve an optimal design. Conor is also experienced in leading and supervising internal design teams to ensure clients requirements are met and optimised structural solutions are provided.
Conor has gained extensive experience working closely with clients in the area of e-commerce and automation in his time with EirEng and has developed an appreciation for the unique engineering challenges that arise in this ever-growing sector. He seeks to build good relationships with these clients, with a focus on understanding the specialised nature of their requirements and providing engineering advice with this in mind. He recognises that these types of technologies are constantly evolving, and so the engineering considerations always need adapt in a similar fashion to achieve economic design solutions.
As well as working on many projects in Ireland and the UK for EirEng, Conor is experienced in working on international projects in countries such as France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Canada, the USA, Japan and Australia. These projects have offered Conor the opportunity to learn about engineering design methods from around the world, and to see how construction practices differ from country to country.
Conor is responsible for ensuring that EirEng's technical capabilities are maintained at the cutting edge of the industry and manages a team of highly qualified engineers and BIM specialists.
Outside of work, when not spending time with his young family, Conor is a keen Arsenal supporter and enjoys cycling and going to the cinema.
Declan attended the Dublin Institute of Technology and received his degree in Structural Engineering from Trinity College in 1986.
Following university, he worked in London for Anthony Hunt Associates as a Graduate Engineer, working on a variety of projects from theatres to pedestrian bridges, hospitals, historical building refurbishments and tension structures.
From 1990 Declan worked as a Resident Engineer on-site with Taylor Woodrow Construction, refurbishing Smithfield Market, London. The works involved strengthening the existing cast iron, wrought iron, brick jack arches, and timber of the original Victorian building while installing new steel with composite floor construction.
Declan joined Peter Brett Associates (PBA) in 1992 as a Principal Engineer, where he led a team of engineers across multiple disciplines, managing overall projects and liaising with the client and wider design teams. Projects included Battersea Arts Centre, Kingswood Ascot with Norman Foster Architects and the Novartis HQ in Frimley Business Park.
In 1999 Declan returned to Dublin. Setting up as a sole practitioner, he worked alongside local Architects on a variety of projects ranging from small, one-off houses to larger-scale hotels, refurbishments of historical buildings, and condition surveys too.
When the 2009 downturn in construction occurred, an opportunity arose to work in the Channel Islands as a Resident Engineer. Declan spent 3 years in St Helier working on high-rise residential buildings with double storey basements with Dandara.
Eoghan Deasy has a Bachelor of Engineering Degree (1st Class Hons) from University College Dublin and is a member Engineers Ireland.
Before joining EirEng Consulting Engineers, Eoghan was a Civil Engineer and Project Manager with BG&E Consulting Engineers, Perth. Prior to that Eoghan was a design engineer with TOBIN Consulting Engineers in Galway.
Eoghan has specialised in the roads, drainage, and civil engineering elements on a large range of projects in his career to date. His experience across a wide range of construction projects including educational, commercial, residential, retail, logistics and various civil infrastructural projects. He has worked extensively with numerous public authorities and private developers.
Eoghan is accustomed to dealing with Clients, Contractors and Project Team Members. He has also developed good working relationships with the Local Authorities and produces economical, buildable schemes that are in full compliance with the Local Authority requirements. These relationships have proved in the past to be key to unlocking a site with the local authorities. He has gained international experience having spent over a year and a half working for a consultancy in Perth. He has worked on several projects where he has incorporated fully compliant Sustainable urban Drainage Systems.
Eoghan spent 8 months on site as a Resident Engineer on a large urban roads scheme. This invaluable experience has given Eoghan a perspective of what is involved in practical buildable solutions while meeting the requirements of Local Authorities. He has worked on multiple projects where he has incorporated fully compliant Sustainable urban Drainage Systems. He has also has international experience having spent over a year and a half working for a consultancy in Perth.
Since joining EirEng Eoghan's skillsets and client management skills have resulted in him being made a Director and leading EirEng's Civils Team. His hands on management skills prioritise maintaining and building existing relationships and developing new. A forward thinker, Eoghan is at the forefront of building and driving the EirEng team growth in Ireland and the UK whilst still mentoring junior staff and ensuring the one team ethos of EirEng remains strong.
Jeremy is one of the two founding directors of EirEng and in May 2021 was elected to the role of Managing Director on completion of Terry Sheehan's ten-year term. Spending his time between Dublin and Bath, Jeremy's mission is to ensure that more clients get to benefit from the excellent technical and economical design solutions that EirEng provide.
Jeremy has a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) from Trinity College from where he graduated in 1996, he spent a further year studying for a Masters of Science in Engineering Structures also at Trinity College.
He joined PUNCH Consulting after graduation in 1997 as a Design Engineer and worked with PUNCH for a total of 11 years reaching the level of Regional Director. He left PUNCH in 2011 and along with Terry Sheehan formed EirEng Consulting Engineers.
Jeremy has been involved with a wide range of projects over his career and has worked closely with Terry for much of this forming a proactive and hands on team. This approach has led to Jeremy acting as client manager for various key blue-chip clients such as Tesco, Sainsburys, Ocado, M&S and Amazon. Jeremy's approach to project management also led to a break in his period with PUNCH when he worked for one of Tesco's partnering contractors as a contracts manager. As a result, Jeremy has gained valuable knowledge from a contracting perspective that is invaluable from a point of design coordination and cooperation with the main contractor on projects.
Jeremy has worked on various projects including residential, leisure, education, commercial, retail and logistics. Sustainability is at the heart of all his solutions and through integrated design and rigorously challenging all aspects of projects he ensures the solution is optimized for both the client and the planet. This design ethic has led to Jeremy being involved in many sustainable award-winning projects in his career such as Limerick Co. Co. Offices, Offaly Co. Co. Offices and the first "Eco Store" in Ireland which was built by Tesco and is the first supermarket in the world to receive a Passive House Certificate.
Logistics is an area of where Jeremy has extensive experience, and the resulting expertise has led to Jeremy being part of technical review groups for a leading online retailer in developing their design criteria and associated specifications for their facilities along with the successful implementation of same on numerous projects in Ireland and the UK.
Jeremy's experience as a contracts manager has provided and understanding of how it works on "both sides of the fence" that facilitates a productive relationship with the contractor and design team to reach the most economical and suitable solution for the client. This approach is also backed up by a strong focus on client management and quality of service.
In his free time, Jeremy's family is his priority followed closely by his love of rugby and his local team Leinster.
Matt Redfern has taken an unconventional route to becoming a Senior Engineer. His Engineering apprenticeship began when he joined SLR Consulting Ltd (an Environmental Engineering company in Bradford-on-Avon) as a trainee CAD technician. He quickly worked his way up through the ranks to become a Senior Technician and CAD Manager for the company.
Seeking bigger challenges and wanting to expand his Engineering knowledge, Matt left SLR and joined the infrastructure team at Buro Happold Consulting Engineers in Bath. While there he gained a wealth of experience working on projects of all scales, from small UK projects to multi-billion-pound city scale projects in the Middle East.
Matt has worked across a wide range of sectors, including Aviation, Education, Sports, Commercial, Cultural, Healthcare and Residential, often taking the lead role for the infrastructure team and building a wide appreciation of all aspects of Civil Engineering. Previous projects have included Downtown Doha (the complete redevelopment of the centre of the capital city of Qatar), Olaya Metro Station in Riyadh and the re-development of the Compton and Edrich stands at Lords Cricket ground. More recently Matt worked as part of a large multi discipline team helping to deliver the detailed design for Everton Football Clubs new stadium at Bramley Moore Dock in Liverpool.
Having gained a wealth of experience, he was the first in the team to achieve EngTech status with the ICE and later followed this up by becoming an Incorporated Engineer (IEng) through the experience route. He has since helped other Engineering Technicians achieve EngTech in a mentoring role.
Matt has developed a keen interest in sustainable drainage design and has undertaken training and further research in this area to help expand his knowledge.
In August 2021, after 14 years at BuroHappold, the opportunity to join the small but rapidly expanding EirEng team in Bath, and head up the Civils team there, was too good an opportunity to miss. Since joining EirEng Matt has been actively assisting Eoghan Deasy (Civils Directors) based in Dublin to develop the EirEng civils team in Bath. As part of his new position Matt has been assisting John Sayer to develop in house software capability and processes across the company to ensure EirEng remain at the cutting edge of Civils design.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director
- Senior Engineer
Michael Hickey is a Senior Engineer at EirEng and can be considered the prodigal son of EirEng. He joined the company as a graduate engineer at its infancy after completing an Honours Bachelor degree and Masters in Structural Engineering with Architecture from University College Dublin in 2012. He quickly built up an invaluable experience working on a wide range of projects from local residential extensions to large scale logistics complexes in the Middle East. One of his key highlights during this period was his input into the structural design of the Tesco Extra store in Dundalk which at the time was one of the country's largest retail stores.
After approximately 2 years at EirEng Michael moved from Dublin to Bath where he joined BuroHappold at their headquarters. He was involved in some of their prestigious projects including the London Olympic Stadium Transformation, the Museum of The Future Dubai, McArthurGlen Ashford Designer Outlet Expansion, and the Millbrook Park Phase 6 development. He also worked closely with software developers on the creation of cutting-edge computational design tools. These were key in the development of the $1.2Bn Olaya Metro Station scheme which formed the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia's largest infrastructure project and a project which Michael was very involved in. As part of the project Michael moved to Riyadh where he aided in the management of the local structural team and dealt with the onsite delivery of some of the firm's Middle Eastern projects.
On his return to the UK, he continued working on site and took a yearlong secondment to Skanska, where he was key in developing on-site solutions to the historically sensitive Battersea Power Station Grade II listed structure.
But Michael couldn't stay away and in 2019 he re-joined the EirEng team and assisted in establishing the UK office in Bath. He has brought the concept of strong collaboration with him, and it is this close collaboration with architects, project managers and contractors, that has been pivotal in the successful delivery of his projects since his return.
Michael is now back in Dublin and is aspiring to avoid the EirEng tradition of jumping in the sea during the company's annual Christmas swim.
Peter graduated in 2016 after completing an MEng in Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University of Glasgow. He is a Senior Structural Engineer currently working in our Bath Office.
While studying, Peter used his summers to gain valuable experience within the industry. His placements included major contractors McLaughlin and Harvey, and work in the design office through the prestigious Happold Student Scholarship scheme.
Upon graduating from University, Peter joined Buro Happold, and was involved in delivering high-profile projects including a world cup stadium, three separate premier league stadiums and the development of the ‘Home of Cricket' at Lords.
Terry Sheehan was elected to the role of Managing Director of EirEng on its formation in 2011. In line with the founding principles this role is for ten years but due to the global pandemic, Terry agreed to extend his term until May 2021 to provide continuity when he then handed over the baton to Jeremy Lamb who became EirEng's second Managing Director. Terry reverted to the role of Director and to Consultant in 2024 where he continues to provide expert and economical design solutions to a wide range of existing and new clients.
Terry graduated with a 1 st Class Honours Degree in Civil Engineering from University College Cork in 1984. After working around the recession hit Ireland for a period of 12 months, he took up an opportunity to move to New York on a year's contract in the Structural Design Department of New York City Transit Authority. It was here that his interest in sustainability by rehabilitating and altering existing structures in a sensitive manner began.
On his return to Ireland in 1986 Terry began work under the direction of the late Michael Punch in his Limerick Office later moving to Dublin to set up their Structural Engineering Offering there. This relationship was interrupted twice when he expanded his understanding of site issues and their dependence on good design during two periods spent as a resident Engineer.
Terry added to his qualifications and experience by adding a Diploma in Management and Masters in Structural Engineering, both from Trinity College in the early 1990's. He also was elected a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Structural Engineers and Engineers Ireland in that period and was later elected a Fellow of Engineers Ireland. He served on the Masonry Panel for the NSAI, headed the structures Sub-committee of the ACEI and also served two terms on the ACEI Executive Board.
Terry has a strong belief of the important role that Engineers play in society and through numerous collaborations with Architects that practise the principles of Integrated Design has been lucky to work on a number of High Profile Award-Winning Buildings such as Limerick County Council Offices, Cork, Offaly and Kilmallock Civic Offices, Tullamore Hospital and SAP Offices in Galway. Over a period of over 30 years he has worked on the full range of building and civils engineering projects of varying type and scale. These range from residential and mixed use developments; to healthcare and residential projects; civil and marine infrastructure to conservation and small scale projects. His work on sustainable design has led to the repurposing of numerous buildings including listed buildings from industrial or commercial use to residential use.
In 2011 Terry decided, with a number of like-minded colleagues, to set up EirEng Consulting Engineers to bring back the traditional level and type of service that is more appropriate to the needs of clients. In tandem with this it was decided to embrace the available cutting edge design tools and the associated technology to provide simple and cost effective solutions to clients on a limited budget. Projects of all types and size are approached with the same enthusiasm and detail and through his involvement, Terry brings a wealth of construction experience to bear.
Terry and his colleagues identified the importance of logistics at the start of the new century and have built up a wealth of experience with blue chip clients client all over the world to a level where they are seen as one of the leading Civil/Structural Engineers operating in the UK and Ireland in this area and in particular in automated and temperature-controlled projects.
When not working as an engineer, Terry has been involved with local sports clubs in a mentoring capacity and was involved with Cuala GAA club for many years before he brought two rugby teams in Seapoint Rugby Club through the development to adult rugby over a period of 18 years. He is a regular all year sea swimmer and can also be found in his garden hideaway working on his latest woodworking project.
Thomas Byrne graduated from Dublin Institute of Technology in 2011 & 2013 achieving Distinction and First Class Honours in Bachelor of Engineering Technology and Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering degrees. Thomas was awarded the G&T Crampton Centenary Award in 2012 and 2014 for his performance in his degrees. In 2021 he was awarded the title of Chartered Engineer from the Institute of Engineers Ireland.
Thomas began his career working as a site engineer with Ward and Burke Construction. He worked on a range of different Public Works Contracts across Ireland, including wastewater treatment plants, water supply schemes, watermain rehabilitation and sewer networks. He gained valuable experience on site which he draws upon in his current role.
In 2015, Thomas transitioned to Eireng Consulting Engineers as a graduate engineer. Since joining the firm, Thomas has developed extensive experience in planning, design, project management, co-ordination, and supervision of the construction of a range of public and private projects such as hotels, healthcare, commercial, industrial, education, residential and office projects. Thomas regularly acts as Employers Representative and PSDP for our public and private client base in Ireland. Thomas places a high value on communication during a project and as a result has developed and maintained healthy working relationships with clients and projects teams which he feels is key to consistently delivering his projects.
In the UK, Thomas has extensive experience in logistics infrastructure design where he has successfully designed and managed civil engineering input for large logistics projects for some of the UKs leading online retailers. As a result of developing this specialist knowledge he provides civil consulting services to a leading online retailer in developing their design criteria and specifications for the facilities.
Alongside leading design teams within Eireng Irish and UK offices Thomas also mentors graduates in the Eireng Irish office placing a particular importance on experiential learning within his mentees continued professional development.