MAURICE BUCKLEY INAUGURATED AS 128TH PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERS IRELAND
Maurice Buckley, current Executive Chairman of the Office of Public Works, has been inaugurated as the 128th President of Engineers Ireland at the professional membership body’s AGM, which was held virtually on Tuesday, 30 June 2020. Mr Buckley, who is a chartered engineer and a graduate of electrical engineering from UCD, will hold the position of President for the organisation’s 2020/2021 session.
He is also currently the Executive Chairman of the Office of Public Works where he is leading large-scale capital investment and maintenance programmes to improve Ireland’s flood defences and public buildings, both modern and heritage. Maurice comes from an engineering family with his late father, Denis Buckley, President of Engineers Ireland’s Western Region in the 1970s. Maurice has worked for the Boston Consulting Group in Munich and was also the Chief Executive of the NSAI with responsibility for the country’s standardisation, certification and metrology activities. He joined the OPW in 2017. He was elected Vice-President of Engineers Ireland in 2018.
PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERS IRELAND
Commenting on his inauguration as President of Engineers Ireland, Maurice said: “With over 25,000 member engineers, Engineers Ireland’s community of creative professionals is uniquely placed to deliver solutions and create opportunity in the face of increasingly complex societal challenges. As President, I am honoured to lead and mobilise our engineering community and to activate our collective capacity to deliver sustainable solutions which will benefit families and communities all across Ireland.”
He added: “The new Programme for Government is a clarion call for engineering solutions from start to finish. Apart from the high level of capital investment already planned in Project Ireland 2040 and the National Development Plan, the policy changes foreseen in transport, housing, building retrofit, energy, broadband and communications, and in regionalisation are all changes that require engineers and sustainable engineering solutions if they are to be delivered effectively. Engineers Ireland and our community will be the conduit through which that work can be done.”
Denise Maguire Editor of Irish Construction Industry Magazine