NUI Galway Engineering Building – design, construction and instrumentation for teaching
About the speakers:
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Mr Eamonn Cannon, Chartered Engineer – retired lecturer NUIG
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Dr Jamie Goggins, Chartered Engineer – Lecturer at NUI Galway
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Eddie O’Brien - Project Manager, BAM Contractors
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Fiona Purcell, Chartered Engineer - Arup Consulting Engineers
About the event:
The New Engineering Building at NUIG integrates all engineering activities on campus into an exclusive, state of the art academic facility. The building not only provides a learning environment, but acts as a teaching and learning tool. It is a "living laboratory” for engineering, where live data sets from numerous types of sensors are provide for use in illustrating structural engineering and building performance concepts in undergraduate teaching, and in the development of full-scale research in structural engineering and energy. In this presentation, key members of the project team will present on the different aspects of the project - the main design drivers and challenges that were associated with the civil/structural design and construction of the building, the monitoring of the building structure by instrumentation, the project inception, planning and implementation from a pedagogical perspective, through to the design and implementation of the living laboratory learning environment.
Admission:
Free. All welcome!