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Summer 2019 Newsletter Roughan & O’Donovan ROD Offices in Otley ROD 2019 Contents Harry Meighan MANAGING DIRECTOR Welcome to the Summer 2019 edition of the ROD Newsletter. Project Director who was ably supported by Barry Corrigan BRIDGES TRANSPORTATION My foreword to the Winter ’18 edition noted the opening of and Richard Spencer. I can report at the time of going to our North Dublin office in September ’18 and anticipated press that we have just been awarded the contract for TII 6 ROD wins ACEI Overseas Award for 21 Work advances on the Athy Distributor Road the opening of a UK office this summer. Since then we Phases 5-7 of N5 Ballaghaderreen to Scramoge to take the Northern Spire Bridge 22 N61 Ballymurray to Knockcroghery have established a new operating company, Roughan project through the Tender, Construction and Handover 7 New moveable bridge for Great Yarmouth Road project & O’Donovan UK Ltd, and opened our first UK office at stages with Roscommon NRRO. The programme for the services schedules the tender consultation period for 8 Waterford North Quays Wharfebank Mills in the town of Otley, which is 4 miles from 23 ROD Engaged on N60 Oran Road Project Leeds-Bradford airport. The office will be headed up by Jim commencement in Q2 of 2020 and anticipates award of 9 158-year-old iconic Cork Bridge gets Facelift the construction contract in Q4 of 2020. 24 N56 Mountcharles to Drumbeigh Thorpe and will accommodate up to 18 people. I am also able to report that in early July we were awarded 10 A new chapter for Tírchonaill Bridge Road Scheme The opening of the UK office serves several purposes. If the contract by Donegal County Council for Phases 6-7 in Donegal facilitates us in servicing our expanding client-group and 25 Continuous Greenway completed between projects in Great Britain; it serves as a risk management of the N56 Drumbeigh to Inver scheme. This new scheme 11 Parapet Enhancements along Ireland’s Athlone and Maynooth strategy to mitigate potential outcomes of the Brexit process follows on from the adjacent N56 Mountcharles to motorway network and currency fluctuations that may ensue from that; and at Drumbeigh road where we provided similar site supervision 26 Liffey Cycle Route plan unveiled by the a time when there is growing demand for technical staff in and contract administration services. Wills Bros.Ltd is the BUILDINGS National Transport Authority Ireland, the new office allows us to tap in to a much larger contractor for both schemes. pool of potential employees to work on both our Irish and Finally, the ROD management systems were audited 17 TII’s motorway operations centre extension 27 TII: Fixed sign data configuration UK projects. (surveillance or re-assessment) by NSAI at the end of May. moves to Site 28 Retro-fitting new variable message signs We are delighted that Jim Thorpe can return to his homeland The auditor’s findings noted: 18 First scheme opening for National Children’s on the M7/M18 to lead our new venture. Jim is a professional of the highest • Objectives and targets established to drive Hospital Project calibre & integrity, and we couldn’t ask for anyone better improvement in business performance, actively to head up the development of ROD UK Ltd. It is an exciting supported by the Senior Management Team. 19 ROD Housing Update GENERAL period for the company, and, with this ongoing organic • Good evidence of the effective implementation 4 ROD opens first UK Office in Leeds growth, we anticipate employee numbers increasing to of the Quality Management System, Environmental near 250 in the next 12 months. 16 Outreach to Primary Schools on International Management System and Occupational Health & ENVIRONMENTAL This edition includes an article noting the success of the Safety Management System Women’s Day 12 Breaking into the environmental sector Northern Spire Bridge in winning the ACEI Overseas Project • Very well managed and controlled delivery of the 20 Richard Spencer appointed Associate at ROD award for 2018 and notes the commencement of our latest projects audited 14 Full steam ahead on N5 Ballaghaderreen to project in England, the Great Yarmouth Third River Crossing 29 Galway to Dublin Cycle • Comprehensive CPD programme to maintain and Scramoge scheme or GY3RX as it commonly referred to in the office. On GY3RX, enhance staff competences. 30 Why site experience matters to graduate our client is BAM Nuttall – Farrans joint venture and we are 15 Planning Approval Granted for a new bridge The ROD BIM processes are integrated with our Quality engineers collaborating with MEICA specialist Hardesty & Hanover, over the River Moy at Cloongullane Management System. Our BIM processes are certified to Simple steps towards a sustainable future who we have worked with on several past projects. The 32 Level 2 BIM (Building Information Modelling) by the British project is an NEC ECI, which gives us the opportunity to Standards Institution (BSI) for our full range of engineering ROD-IS 33 Caitríona de Paor competes for Ireland in the be involved in the Development Consent Order planning services. This year we updated our management systems Touch Rugby World Cup process in England for the first time. 34 ROD-IS Update to adopt the ISO 19650 series – Information Management 5 minutes with.. Jim Thorpe On the planning front in Ireland, Barry Corrigan reports 36 using BIM. The new ISO series supersedes BS 1192 and PAS on the successful approval of the N5 Ballaghaderreen to 37 ROD Social Committee News 119-2, which are now withdrawn. At the end of June, the Scramoge scheme by An Bord Planeala following a two- British Standards Institution conducted an audit of ROD’s 39 Meet the new recruits day oral hearing. ROD has been working on this scheme BIM systems and capabilities. I am pleased to report that for Roscommon County Council since 2014. The planning the auditor recommended ROD for certification to ISO stage of the scheme (TII Phases 1-4) was led by Jim Thorpe as 19650. Editor: Eoin Ó Catháin Design: Claire Lambert Cover Photo: Wharfebank Mills, Otley SUMMER 2019 4 ROD | GENERAL SUMMER 2019 5 ROD |GENERAL ROD’s portfolio of UK projects includes: ROD opens first UK Office in Leeds Aberdeen Western Bypass (tender design) | Ferrovial-Lagan A82 Pulpit Rock, Loch Lomond (Tender Design) |Morgan Sindall Firth of Forth Crossing (Staff Secondment) | Ramboll A737 Dalry Bypass (tender design)| John M8-M73-M74, Scotland Paul Construction (independent check for all disciplines) Strabane footbridge | Ferrovial - Lagan (Preliminary & detailed de- sign)| Strabane district council Article by Jim Thorpe A6 Dungiven - Drumahoe A2 Shore Road Belfast (Detailed design)| Northern Spire Bridge & approaches (Detailed design)| Sacyr Wills It may have started as a Brexit mitigation plan, but as the office complex and business community, occupied by 40 Graham Construction (Detailed design in JV with Buro Happold) Somague reality of the opening of our first UK office now emerges, it separate businesses covering a wide range of professional | Farrans-Victor Buyck is an exciting new venture. Our new office will be located and business support services. Supporting this re-purposing A6 Randalstown - Mersey Gateway crossing, in Otley on the edge of Leeds in northern England. Having of the old mill is consistent with our commitment to Castledawson (Detailed design in JV with Runcorn successfully penetrated the UK market, and delivered a sustainability, as well as providing a characterful office Arup)| Graham - Farrans (independent certifier in JV with Capita)| Halton Borough wide range of projects there in the past (see box opposite) environment for our staff. The office also offers ready Council when work was scarce at home, ROD decided in October access to Otley town centre and walking routes along the 2017 to start making plans to secure continued access to riverbank, ensuring staff are able to take an active break the UK market due to the uncertainty of Brexit. Roughan at lunchtimes. Pont Briwet Viaduct, Great Yarmouth & O’Donovan UK Ltd was formally registered in September N.Wales 3rd River Crossing Units 82-87 of the Pegholme building are being refurbished (Independent check)| 2018 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Roughan & O’Donovan (Development to ROD’s specification to provide a very similar workspace Hochtieff (for Network Rail) Consent Order and Ltd, and our UK based site staff have since transferred their to that in our two Dublin offices. The new office is being detailed design) contracts of employment to the new company. When | BAM Nuttall - equipped for 18 staff, with a video conference equipped Farrans considering a potential location for a UK office it was conference room and seamless IT integration with the two Roughan and O’Donovan UK Ltd decided to look for a central location in Britain, in order to Dublin offices, such that everyone will be working off the Consulting Engineers serve England, Scotland and Wales, with Northern Ireland Wharfebank Mills, Otley same servers and Michelle will be able to take and allocate being successfully served from Dublin at present. The final phone calls across all three offices. choice was dictated by the quick and convenient airport Navigation Street, Birmingham (Specialist assessment)| Graham Construction links to Dublin, settling on Otley, which is 4 miles from Leeds- I am relocating to the Leeds area to head up the new Bradford airport and only 20 minutes by train to the centre office, while remaining a Director and Company Secretary of Leeds and the UK national rail network. of both ROD and RODUK. The proximity to the airport means that I will remain available to Irish clients, while co- We have signed an initial 5 year lease on the top floor of ordinating staff across the three offices as best suits the a refurbished woollen mill, overlooking the River Wharfe.
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