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.
Philip Lee
Philip has developed a leading expertise in the area of procurement, competition, trade and construction law and advises clients in relation to the largest public utilities projects in the country. Philip’s extensive PPP experience includes roads, waste, waste water and electricity PPP projects where he acts for both public and private bodies.
Joseph Little
Through many years of architectural practice, research, lecturing and building fabric consultancy – and now through the role of academic manager – Joseph has explored, promoted and taught science-based construction practices. As Assistant Head of School at Dublin School of Architecture, DIT, with responsibility for construction he is engaging with existing programmes and creating new ones to ensure that DIT remains at the fore front of construction education, and in doing so ensuring that Ireland has a greater ability to create a more environmentally sustainable built environment, ready to engage with a healthy, low energy future.
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.
Niall Crosson
Niall holds a degree as a Bachelor of Technology (1st Class Hons) and a Masters Eng. Sc. from National University of Ireland, Galway. Ecological Buildings Systems have pioneered the introduction of natural building materials and airtightness to the construction industry in Ireland and the UK for over a decade. Niall has particular expertise in the area of energy conservation, hygrothermal analysis, airtightness, natural insulation, thermal bridging analysis and vapour diffusion open constructions using natural materials.
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.
Orna Fox
Orna Fox is a Senior Architectural Technologist with PM Group and has over 20 years’ experience working in the construction industry on various projects including, protected structures, residential, commercial, healthcare, educational, pharmaceutical, biopharma, Med-Tech and food developments. Orna is a LEED AP (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Accredited Professional, holds a Specialist Diploma in Environmental Sustainability from the National University of Ireland, Galway and is currently studying, MSc in Building Performance (Energy Efficiency in Design) at Dublin Institute of Technology. Orna is a Sustainability Champion within the PM Group Dublin Office and is crucial to the implementation of sustainable standards and processes within PM Group Architecture and the wider Group.
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
Declan Alcock
Declan Alcock is an Executive Director with Varming Consulting Engineers overseeing a portfolio of projects in the Sustainability sector. He has 20 years’ experience in consultancy in the areas of Sustainable Building Design and Energy & Environmental analysis. Declan’s qualifications include MSc Energy & Sustainable Building Design, Certified Energy Auditor (CEA), BREEAM Accredited Professional (BREEAM AP), BREEAM International & UK New Construction Assessor, and Certified Passive House Designer. Declan is also Director of the NGO Engineers Without Borders Ireland (EWB-Ireland) with a focus on the role of engineering in achieving resilient communities and contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and a particular interest in the role of the Private Sector in contributing to the work of NGOs and Humanitarian Engineering.