Ali Grehan
Chair IGBC
Dublin City Architect, Ali Grehan leads the City Council team responsible for developing a broad urban design agenda including the delivery of diverse projects in relation to housing, public realm, community and cultural infrastructure. Her career has spanned private practice in Dublin, London and Bilbao, and in the Public Sector; where her particular focus has been on large-scale urban regeneration. Prior to becoming City Architect, Ali was Chief Architect with Ballymun Regeneration Ltd. She also worked with the RPA (now TII) delivering Dublin’s first LUAS Light Rail system.
Krystyna Rawicz
Krystyna is a Chartered Building Surveyor and Project Manager, with over 30 years’ experience in her field. Krystyna is a Fellow of both the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and is a member of the SCSI working group on sustainability. She is also MD of KRA Renewables, a consultancy company specialising in the incorporation of renewable energy systems into the built environment. Krystyna is a LEED GA (Green Associate) and holds a Professional Certificate in Business Sustainability Management from the University of Cambridge.
Patrick Atkinson
Patrick Atkinson is the Chief Executive of the Chadwicks Group, the Irish Merchanting function of Grafton Group plc which trades from over fifty branch locations nationwide, principally, under the Chadwicks brand, but also the Panelling centre, Plumb Centres, Heiton Steel, Cork Builders Providers, Telfords and Davies brands. The Chadwicks group employs 1380 people and has a turnover in excess of €500m. He joined the Group in 2015 as COO and in 2017 took on his current position. Patrick is a member of World skills Ireland committee, Chairman of the Access to Skills Advisory Board in TU Dublin and a member of the President’s Cabinet committee in the Engineering and Built environment of TU Dublin.
William O’Donnell
William O’Donnell is the Associate Director at IN2 Engineering. Since graduating as a Building Services Engineer from DIT Bolton Street in 2005, he has consistently worked in the Irish construction industry. He commenced his career in the Mechanical Contracting side of the building services industry which afforded him with real world knowledge of building services installation processes and on site co-ordination experience. In 2007 he adjusted his career profile and became a Consultant Engineer. Post extensive training he now specialises in Environmental & Sustainable Design .
He was awarded Chartership with Engineers Ireland in 2011 and with CIBSE in 2012.
He is a BREEAM international assessor.
Alan Cawley
Alan is the Sustainability Manager for John Sisk and Sons (Holdings) Ltd, covering operations in both Ireland and Europe, with 10 years’ experience of environmental and sustainability issues. He joined Sisk in 2016 after working as an Environmental Manager with J. Murphy and Sons Ltd in the UK. He holds a MSc. in Environmental Systems from Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, and BSc. (Hons) in Construction and Project Management from Edinburgy Napier University. Alan’s expertise includes implementation of environmental management systems and strategies, waste management, carbon reporting, CSR, and the Considerate Constructors Scheme – when led to the first sites to be registered in the Republic of Ireland in 2017
Laura Heuston
Laura is the Co-Founder of SustainabilityWorks, a boutique sustainability consulting firm that offers a unique blend of skills and experience across sustainability strategy, finance, policy and communications. A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland and a Chartered Tax Adviser, Laura has over 20 years professional experience across industry and practice. While in KPMG and Airtricity, she specialised in working with corporates and asset managers in the renewable energy and energy efficiency finance sectors, advising on transaction structures for mergers, acquisitions, disposals, fundraising and other transactions. She lectures on sustainable finance with the UCD Smurfit Graduate School and the Institute of Banking. Her consulting work covers a broad range of sustainable finance topics, with a particular specialism in energy efficiency finance, community investment in renewables and responsible investment.
Patrice McVeigh
Patrice is an Associate at O’Connor Sutton Cronin M&E Ltd. and manages the Sustainability Department advising clients on Sustainability objectives and delivering Green Certifications (LEED, BREEAM, WELL, HPI) across commercial, educational, residential and health-care projects in Ireland and the UK. Patrice is a Chartered Environmental Scientist, with a Masters in Environmental Engineering and over 14 years of experience in the field of Sustainability. Beginning her career in the remediation of contaminated land, her focus moved to the built environment and sustainable buildings. An experienced LEED AP, BREEAM Assessor and WELL AP Patrice has worked on and delivered some of the first LEED Platinum Certifications in Ireland
Claire Pomroy
Claire is a chartered engineer and a Director of Hines, focused on developing urban regeneration projects. Previously she managed Macquarie Capital’s PPP delivering TU Dublin’s new campus at Grangegorman. Claire has also led design teams on major international projects – including Sydney’s €2bn Central Park, ranked globally as one of the 50 most influential buildings of past 50 years, and Barangaroo, one of the world’s first carbon neutral precincts. While based in Switzerland, Claire established a European business for a property technology company leveraging data to improve operational carbon performance of global real estate. Claire is Hines Ireland’s ESG leader.
Orla Coyle
Orla is a Chartered Engineer and is a member of Engineers Ireland (EI) and the Chartered Institute of Building Service Engineers (CIBSE). She is currently Head of ESG at Savills and former Programme Manager at Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, where she worked on the decarbonisation and retrofit of public sector building stock and providing support to government departments on the development of policy and regulations for Irish buildings.
Lorraine FitzGerald
Lorraine has over 20 years of experience leading and influencing in the area of sustainability, ESG and stakeholder engagement. With a background in environmental science, she has combined this with excellent communication skills to drive purposeful and dynamic change. This has included leading and delivering a range of sustainability and climate change strategies and projects for corporates as well as governments and agencies both in Ireland and Scotland. Lorraine is currently Head of Sustainability with Glenveagh Properties
