Bryan Egan  B.Eng  C.Eng  FIEI

Chartered Consulting Engineer

12 St. Francis Street,  Galway,  Ireland H91 A215.

bryan@bryanegan.ie        087 2415694
The Practice was founded in Headford by Tommie Egan at the commencement of WW2. He moved to the office at 12 St. Francis Street in the early 1950s. His son, Bryan joined and has run the practice since 1992 when Tommie retired.
Bryan graduated with a B.Eng degree from the Ploytechnic of the Southbank, London  and has acquired a great deal of experience as an Architect, Surveyor, Cartographer, Transportation Engineer, Railway Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Planner, Researcher, Project Manager, and Forensic Engineer. Bryan's previous experience includes 14 years working in the UK, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, working for small and large international Consultants and Contractors.
Byran now operates as a sole trader.

Bryan Egan Consulting Engineer, 12 St. Francis Street, Galway, Ireland. H91 A215.

Tel: +353 87 2415694  and  +353 91 562784         Email: bryan@bryanegan.ie

Dates

Employer / College

 

Years

10/1975 to 07/1977

Regional Technical College, Galway, Ireland.

2-year full-time course leading to Civil Engineering Technician’s Certificate

Educ

10/77 1to

01/79

Ove Arup & Partners, Consulting Engineers, London.

Junior Technician/Draughtsman. Working on various projects including Telecom Towers, Building Refurbishment projects. Experience in design/detail R.C. structures

2.25

02/1979 to 08/1980

Ove Arup & Partners, Consulting Engineers, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Based in Riyadh)

Technician/Draughtsman. Jeddah to Riyadh to Dammam Expressway (1300km, 6-lane new road) Design, Draughting, Site investigation. Site surveying. Production of contract documents. Also design/detail many R.C. building structures.

1.5

08/1980 to 06/1981

College of

Technology,

Bolton St. Dublin.

1-year full-time course leading to Civil Engineering Technician's Diploma

Educ

07/1981 to 10/1981

Sureca Consulting Engineers, 91 Ave Kleber, Paris (based in Baghdad, Iraq)

Technician/Draughtsman. Route survey and production of route alignment drawings and materials schedules for a 650km piped water distribution network for the city of Baghdad.

0.25

01/1982 to 12/1982

Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick, Consulting Engineers., Basingstoke, UK

Technician/Draughtsman. Airport runway/taxiway design and detail.

Road transport network data gathering and modelling. .

0.92

01/1983 to 12/1983

Maunsell & Partners, Consulting Engineers, Penge, London

Technician/draughtsman. Civil and Infrastructure design for new towns.

0.92

01/1984 to 08/1984

Ove Arup & Partners, Consulting Engineers, London

Technician/draughtsman. Civil and Infrastructure design for new towns.

0.58

09/1984 to 06/1987

Polytechnic of the Southbank, Vauxhall, London

3-year full-time course leading to B.Eng. degree (Civil)

Educ

06/1985 to 08/1985

Arup Associates, Architects & Consulting Engineers,

London

During College Summer Vacation. Hard Landscaping Designer and structural Engineer/designer

0.16

06/1986 to 08/1986

Arup Associates

 

During College Summer Vacation.

Designer/structural designer - various building projects.

0.16

06/1987 to 04/1988

Arup Associates

Civil/Structural Engineer. Design & Detail of steel and reinforced concrete structures for an 8-storey retail/office development over a live railway lines.

0.83

04/1988 to 07/1990

Ove Arup & Partners, Consulting Engineers, London

Civil/Structural Engineer. Design and detail in steel, concrete and composite on:

·     Putney Exchange: £30m Concrete framed retail/residential development.

·     No.1 America Square: £70m 14-storey steel framed air-rights office building over Fenchurch Street rail station.

·     Vauxhall Cross HQ building for state agency: £100m 9-storey concrete-framed office building. Design to anti-terrorist specification. Oversee a staff of 4 Technicians/Draughtsmen. Learn and teach AutoCAD. Prepare Contract Documents. High degree of collaboration with Architects, and Services Engineers, and site supervision team. Toward end of this project, promoted to Senior Structural Engineer, and Assistant Project Manager/Administrator. Supervised three graduate Engineers and three technicians.

2.25

08/1990 to 10/1990

Thomas Bedford & Partners, Bond St., London.

Structural Engineer/Designer. Design of various Steel, Concrete and Composite structures.

 

0.16

11/1990 to 03/1991

Balfour Beatty Projects & Engineering, Consulting Engineers, Sidcup, London

Civil/Structural Engineer. Responsible for preliminary design of structures for design/build D&B power, sewerage & water treatment projects for tendering and for construction.

0.33

03/1991 to 06/1991

Seconded to British Rail’s Channel Tunnel Rail Link. (Based in Croydon, London)

Structural Engineer. Feasibility study for realignment of existing tracks and widening of structures to accommodate two additional tracks to existing four-track corridor. Concept design, formulation of materials supply and disposal strategy, production of method statements and preliminary designs for all structures.

0.25

06/1991 to 07/1992

Engineering & Power Development Consultants (EPD), Sidcup, London

Structural Engineer. Project = Jebel Ali CHP station, Dubai. £750m. Architectural and structural design, specification and complete documentation for concrete and steel-framed buildings and major plant foundations. Project Architect and Project Engineer for several ancillary buildings.

1.08

08/1992

to

present

Self-Employed. Own practice in Galway, Ireland.

Consulting Engineer - Civil, Structural, Architectural, Forensic, Planning, Building Surveyor. On the retirement of my father, I took over the practice that he had founded in the 1940s. Types of work:

·     Secondhand housebuyer’s reports

·     Planning/Building Regs’ Certification for building sellers.

·     House + small Commercial Building Designs.

·     Planning Advice

·     Planning Applications

·     Fire Safety Certificate Applications.

·     Liquor License applications

·     Land Surveying and setting-out.

·     Expert witness in land/boundary disputes

·     Expert witness in workplace & public place accidents

·     Expert Witness in Road Traffic Accidents

·     Preparation of construction plans and specifications (based on Architects Plans)

·     Property Valuations for Banks and Building Societies.

·     Expert Witness in Builder/Employer disputes.

·     Land ownership tracing/searching

·     Expert witness in Property aspects of marital breakdown cases.

·     Advices and Expert Witness in Wills and Will disputes.

·    Construction monitor and adviser for self-build housing and small commercial projects.

·     Lead consultant in small Community Developments (Pre-schools and Sports Facilities)

·     Design Certifier

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Professional memberships
  • ·         Society of Civil Engineering Technicians (SCET) Member 1982 to 1986

  • ·         Institution of Civil Engineers, UK. Technician Member 1986 to 1988
  • ·         Institution of Civil Engineers, UK. Graduate Engineer Member 1988 to 1998
  • ·         Engineers Ireland: Member (MIEI) since 1987
  • ·         Engineers Ireland: Chartered Engineer (C.Eng MIEI) since 1991 approx
  • ·         Engineers Ireland: Fellow (C.Eng FIEI) since October 2001
  • ·         Galway Association of Building Consultants (GABC.ie): Founding Member in 1996. Chairman ever since.