DESIGNED FOR QUALITY

Designed

For Process, Comfort and IT Cooling

Mitsubishi Electric’s wide range of energy-saving, and innovative Commercial Heat Pumps and Chillers has two new additions, the MECH-iS-G07 and MEHP-iS-G07. Manufactured to the highest quality, with a compact design and modular expansion capabilities, they are suitable for many different applications, from comfort to industrial and even IT cooling processes.

The MECH-iS-G07 and MEHP-iS-G07 achieve top-level energy efficiencies, in the most compact footprints in their category. The range features class leading SEER and SCOP performance. Built in Italy, it features the best of Italian engineering flair and Japanese “Poka-Yoke” designed in quality.

More pie in the sky?

While designating 2023 the European Year of Skills is to be lauded, it’s essential we don’t deceive ourselves into thinking that the problem is now solved. In recent years we have had a plethora of aspirational re- and upskilling initiatives, but most have failed dismally.

Somehow the processes by which we deliver such initiatives are convoluted to the point of being unworkable. There can be so many loops and hoops to be jumped through by would-be participants that it’s very often a turn off.

Even with regard to EU funding to support skills development, there are something like a dozen different EU schemes that governments can access. Why so many? Maybe we should start by upskilling the legislators and teaching them to keep things simple.

Limited Benefits Of Sbem

Building energy modelling

Editor: Pat Lehane

TM68: Monitoring indoor environmental quality – There are long-term consequences that we might face if we do not consider and monitor IEQ properly, says Eleonora Brembilla, Delft University of Technology and Chair of the TM68 Committee.

While it was a useful tool for expanding the scope of Part L, simplified building energy modelling (SBEM) is of limited benefit in accurately assessing the environmental performance of the next generation of buildings. 4

John Gibney

Joe Warren first for Ethos The WELL Performance Rating takes real data captured through sensor technology or onsite tests and turns it into actionable intelligence. Ethos Engineering is the first in the world to achieve the rating for its headquarters in Dublin.

EI Engineer of the Year

William Fyans, Engineering Manager with SiriusXT, has been awarded the prestigious Chartered Engineer of the Year Award by Engineers Ireland.

Supported by Arup, the Chartered Engineer of the Year Award is selected by Engineers Ireland from the large number of engineers who achieve their Chartered title in a given 12-month period.

A graduate of mechanical engineering from Trinity College Dublin, he has built a notable career and reputation for pushing innovation through the development of novel technologies. One of the projects he has worked on includes the structural design of principal elements of the lifting equipment aboard the world’s largest ship, the Pioneering Spirit.

Willie Duggan Lighting Award

In an industry first, Willie Duggan Lighting has won an award at the prestigious LIT International Lighting Design Awards for its external lighting of Carton House, Co Kildare. It also received an honourable mention for its work on Blanchardstown Shopping Centre.

Willie Duggan Lighting is a family-run Irish lighting design company now over 80 years in business. In its third generation, it is run by sister and brother, Monica and Willie Duggan.

Willie, who was lead lighting designer on Carton House says: “We are blown away by the award. We have a brilliant team here in Willie Duggan and I am very proud of them. The façade at Carton House was an amazing canvas for playing with light and it means a great deal that our work is being recognised on an international scale.”

Scanlon Director of IAFs

The board of the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) has appointed Emmett Scanlon as the organisation’s new Director. Mr Scanlon will formally take up the role from the IAF’s incumbent Director, Nathalie Weadick, in May 2023.

Mr Scanlon is an architect in independent practice since 2006, prior to which he was Project Director at Grafton Architects. Additionally, he is Assistant Professor in Architecture at University College Dublin and was awarded a University Teaching and Learning Award in 2021.

Currently, he is Assistant to Curator Professor Lesley Lokko for the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, Biennale Architettura 2023 – The Laboratory of the Future.

Patrick Atkinson, CEO, with Jack champion and new Chadwicks Group ambassador. Chadwicks Group has entered a two-year partnership with Jack to support him on his journey to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. As part of this partnership, Jack will act as a brand ambassador for Chadwicks through a variety of campaigns over the next 24 months.

Enterprise Excellence 2023

On 31 May 2023 Europe’s leading lean management event, Enterprise Excellence 2023, will once again be hosted by Lean Business Ireland. Venue for the event is the SETA Arena, Waterford.

The 2023 event will deliver a multi-stream keynote speaker line-up who will address the topics of:

• People, leadership and culture;

• Methods and systems;

• Fundamentals: lean and digital;

• Cultural change and lean transformation;

• Lean, green and sustainability.

Niklas Modig (pictured), one of the leading authorities within lean and operational excellence, will be a keynote speaker at the event.

For further information see https://eeireland.com/

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