James McNamara announced as judge for Engineering Excellence Awards 2026

James McNamara, Lecturer at TUS Athlone and a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with over 40 years of construction industry experience, joins the judging panel for the Engineering Excellence Awards 2026, bringing a career spanning international infrastructure projects, academic leadership, and professional standards development across civil engineering and construction management. A member of RICS, SCSI, and CIArb, McNamara contributes a practitioner's command of engineering project delivery and quantity surveying to the evaluation of entries across the awards programme.

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Niall Hanley takes his place on the Engineering Excellence Awards 2026 judging panel

Niall Hanley, Contracts Director at JJ Rhatigan Building Contractors, joins the judging panel for the Engineering Excellence Awards 2026, bringing over 25 years of construction industry experience and specialist expertise in design and build contracts across pharmaceutical and medtech, industrial, education, and healthcare sectors. A Fellow Member of Engineers Ireland and a senior leader within one of Ireland's longest-established Tier 1 main contractors, Hanley contributes a practitioner's command of large-scale engineering project delivery and construction innovation to the evaluation of entries across the awards programme.

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Dr John Mulvihill steps onto the judging panel for Engineering Excellence Awards 2026

Dr John Mulvihill, Associate Professor in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology at the University of Limerick, joins the judging panel for the Engineering Excellence Awards 2026, bringing over €3.5 million in secured research funding, 45 peer-reviewed publications, and a Marie Curie Fellowship spanning Georgia Institute of Technology and Trinity College Dublin to the evaluation process. A specialist in cellular mechanobiology and traumatic brain injury research with an h-index of 22, Mulvihill contributes an internationally recognised biomedical engineering perspective to the assessment of entries across Ireland's most trusted engineering recognition programme.

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