Environmental Obligations

Oct 18, 2024

When Reality Clashes with Perception – Engineers Ireland encounters the Truth

Founded in 1835 as the Civil Engineers Society of Ireland, in 1877 it received a Royal Charter after being renamed ‘The Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland’. The Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland (Charter Amendment) Act, 1969 established a new professional body, ‘The Institution of Engineers of Ireland’, as the sole body licensed to award Continue reading

Ethics, Governance, Leadership, Membership, Publications

Accountability, Bye-laws, Chartered Engineer, Code of Ethics, Corporate Members, Engineers, Engineers Ireland, Environmental Obligations, Ethics, Governance, Trust, Values
May 5, 2023

Hypocritical Environmentalism – Engineers Ireland has Form

On 20th April 2023 we witnessed a cynical launch of the Chartered Environmentalist Professional Title by Engineers Ireland literally weeks after its revision to the Code of Ethics(2023) manifested the Engineers Ireland U-turn on members’ ethical obligations to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. To put this in context, the day following the launch, 21st Continue reading

Governance, Leadership, Membership

Engineers, Engineers Ireland, Environmental Obligations, Ethics, Governance, Trust, Values
Apr 3, 2023

What does Membership ‘growth’ in Engineers Ireland mean?

It is perhaps fitting to review membership at Engineers Ireland, considering that in April 1967 the joint Secretariat of the ‘Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland’ (ICEI) and ‘The Engineers Association’ (Cumann), was inaugurated.[1] The Secretary of ICEI, “Joe Fitzgerald agreed to remain and take responsibility for the expansion of the engineering science side of Continue reading

Ethics, Leadership, Publications

Bye-laws, Chartered Engineer, Code of Ethics, Engineers, Engineers Ireland, Environmental Obligations, Ethics, Governance, Registered Title, Trust, Values
Mar 20, 2023

Engineers Ireland U-turn on ethical obligation to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss

Has Engineers Ireland misled its membership and indeed the public? It had Council’s approval “to strengthen members’ commitment to sustainable engineering practice and climate action”[1] from the baseline that already existed in the Code of Ethics(2018). This was also endorsed by the membership: “Climate action and sustainability were a strong theme in the responses to Continue reading

Ethics, Governance, Leadership, Publications

Accountability, Biodiversity Loss, Climate Change, Engineers, Engineers Ireland, Environmental Obligations, Ethics, Trust, Values