The Engineering Excellence Awards 2026 announced its winners at a gala ceremony on 21 October 2026 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Santry, recognising the firms, projects, teams, and individuals driving engineering excellence across Ireland.

ESB and ORS were among the standout performers. ESB won Innovation in Engineering - Large for its API-Based Digital Structural Assessment Workflow, Mechanical Engineering Project of the Year for the Moneypoint Power Station Lifetime Extension and Fuel Conversion Project, and Environmental Engineering Project of the Year for the Moneypoint Coal to Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) Conversion Project. ORS took home Engineering Consultancy of the Year and Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Strategy of the Year, while Anna Quaid of ORS was named Rising Star in Engineering.

Stryker Limerick won both the Manufacturing Engineering Project of the Year award and the overall Engineering Project of the Year award for its Automated Beading of Triathlon Cementless Femoral Components. Copper Coast Renewables was named Engineering Firm of the Year, and Swoopet Pet Products won Emerging Engineering Firm of the Year/Start-Up.

In the project categories, John Paul Construction won Civil Engineering Project of the Year for Rosslare Europort Terminal 7 & Enabling Works. McSherry Electrical & Musco Lighting took Software and Electrical Engineering Project of the Year for the Croke Park Stadium LED Floodlighting Redevelopment. SDS design engineers, McCallion Group and Lidl Ireland won Renewable Energy Engineering Project of the Year for Ireland's 1st Net Zero Energy Supermarket. Nuada won Innovation in Engineering - SME for Adspire.

Several awards recognised people and organisational performance. Source Civil won Excellence in Health & Safety, Viatris Damastown took the Operational Excellence Award, and Trend Technologies won the Sustainability Award. Mellett won the Apprenticeship Programme Award, Irish Manufacturing Research took Graduate Training Programme of the Year, and Kirby Group Engineering won Best People Development in Engineering. STS Group won the Social Impact Award, LotusWorks' Finland Project Team was named Engineering Team of the Year, and Margaret Dolan of Waterman Moylan won the Women in Engineering Award.

The Engineering Excellence Awards 2026 was supported by Gold Sponsors Powercomm Group and Eland Cables and Supporter Amárach Research. Meanwhile, The Irish Times served as Communications Partner.

For the complete 2026 winners list, category details, and judges’ profile, visit the official Engineering Excellence Awards website and subscribe to the newsletter for updates from Ireland's engineering community.