P J Rudden is Chair of the Construction Sector Group (CSG) Innovation and Digital Adoption at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. He has 40 years experience in planning, design and project management in construction across transport, energy, water, housing and resource management projects.

PJ is also Founder and Managing Director at Aengus Consulting and an Independent Non Executive Director at Codema, Dublin’s Energy Agency. He is also a Past President of Engineers Ireland.

John McGowan is a Chartered Engineer and a former President of Engineers Ireland and of the Irish Academy of Engineers.

John worked with Jacobs International as project director on the EPCM of Intel’s Fab10. Thereafter he went to work for Intel Ireland, including four years as the Facility Manager on the Leixlip campus, before being appointed General Manager of Intel Ireland.

Three years into that role John was appointed to co-lead Intel’s global Corporate Services group, based in the USA, but with teams working on construction projects and facility management on all Intel Corp sites across the US, Central America, Europe, Israel, and on the sites of major investments in Asia, predominantly in China. Subsequently, John spent three years plus as MD of McNamara construction, before establishing his own consultancy. This was mostly based on non-executive appointments to the boards of engineering design and project management companies. The years in the second decade of the millennium saw these companies growing their turnover significantly, in a buoyant market, across the world.

Seán McCarthy’s impact on the Irish construction sector cannot be overstated. He has had a prolific career, with 40 years’ experience of successfully delivering extensive Programmes and major Projects with multinational corporations in the semiconductor, pharmaceutical and heavy chemical sectors, including having headed major construction projects at Intel and Eli Lily.

Notably, Seán worked on the Intel Ireland Leixlip Campus for over 20 years, and was the Site Manager of Projects and Construction with responsibility for leading and managing all project construction activity on the campus.

Seán now works with multiple clients as a consultant and mentor on Project Management & Leadership; Lean & IPD; and Quality & Safety.

Gerard Harvey is the Assistant Principal Architect at the Office of Public Works. The architectural practice within the Office of Public Works, delivers a service of quality through the skilful provision of a comprehensive architectural design service to the Government and other public bodies. The principle function of Architectural Services is to ensure that its clients are provided with design excellence, construction and support services that are of the highest standard in terms of quality,cost and programme.

Derek is a Consultant and Senior Lecturer at Waterford Institute of Technology. He is Interim Chair of the Board of the Pyrite Resolution and a member of the PRB Audit and Risk Committee. He is a Director of Lean Construction Ireland, a community of learning and practice the seeks to enable and sustain enhanced effectiveness, efficiency, productivity, and profitability for all stakeholders in the value chain.

Previously, Head of Department of the Built Environment at Waterford IT, he was responsible for the management and strategic development of programmes and industry focused research. He was also past chair of the Southeast Committee of Engineers Ireland.

In practice, Derek specialises in helping people, teams, and organisations to achieve strategy and operational improvement and harness sustainable, innovative business opportunities. Derek brings to the panel an extensive knowledge of Lean, ESG, Productivity and Performance in the construction sector.

Clement is an Associate Director with Linesight Project Management, currently managing a large portfolio of commercial and residential projects located in Dublin and predominantly within the Docklands area. Clement has over 20 years industry experience. Working at Linesight for the past 8 years on a comprehensive range of large commercial, residential and infrastructural projects.

Previous experience includes the position of Construction Director with a Dublin based construction firm, gaining residential building experience and also various government work projects with Dublin City Council as the client.

He has also worked as an independent consultant Project Manager working on high-end international residential projects for international clients.

Clement brings extensive commercial and residential experience to the panel, also international consultancy experience and comprehensive experience in dispute resolution and risk management.

Tim Segal is the course coordinator for the Certificate in Building Information Modelling at IT Tralee.  He has been lecturing at IT Tralee for 13 years, including a spell as Head of Department for Science and Engineering. He previously spent approximately 10 years working professionally as an Architect in Ireland and abroad.

Tim is currently the Building Information Modelling Coordinator for the Estates Department at IT Tralee and is Co-Chair of the CitA South West BIM Region. 

A leader for BIM in the South West and an experienced professional and academic he will bring his broad industry knowledge to the panel.

A procurement specialist, Daniel was Awarded his PhD from Technological University Dublin in 2014 and over the past years has received awards for research and reviewing. His research focused on construction technology, housing stock maintenance and retrofit procurement. Over the past decade, Daniel has been a judge for national and international industry and academic competitions and collaborated on international research projects.

Daniel has worked in construction media as a senior editor and copywriter over the past decade and in recent years was a consultant for the ICE Awards organising team.