Date: 14th October 2025 | Venue: Trinity College Dublin

Overview:

Recycled aggregate concrete improves the added value recovery of better quality construction and demolition waste (CDW), avoiding its use for road construction or in landfilling and reduces the extraction of mineral resources. CDW production and demand for concrete are well matched, leading to small incorporation ratios of recycled aggregates having a very meaningful effect on the overall recovery ratios of concrete waste. Further, it opens the way for other, more profitable, avenues for CDW recovery, such as the use of recycled fines, after forced carbonation or thermal activation, as cement replacement. Notwithstanding the wealth of research on recycled aggregate concrete, its use as a structural material in most EU countries is met with reservations by the several agents involved in concrete construction. This presentation summarises the main ideas of a Science for Policy Report of the Joint Research Centre, overviewing the science behind recycled aggregate concrete, the current status for CDW recovery in the EU, and measures to promote recycled aggregate concrete as a common structural material.

Who Should Attend:

This free-to-attend lecture will be of interest to all those who are involved in the specification and production of concrete, to contractors and other agents of the construction sector and to those involved in construction and demolition waste management, and policy makers.

Programme:

5.45pm: Registration, Tea/Coffee
6.30pm: Use of Recycled Aggregate in Concrete lecture
7.15pm: Q&A
7.30pm: Event Ends
7.45pm: Group Dinner*

CPD: 1 Hour

Fees: Free to attend**

* Please indicate when booking if you would like to join the group for dinner and avail of the opportunity to talk further. ** There will be a charge for dinner.

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Date: 18th September 2025 | Venue: Online

Overview:

Advances in constituent materials, production processes, and construction technologies have all contributed to improvements in concrete construction. However, the successful execution of concrete construction requires sound practice on site. Careful planning of on-site resources and processes, together with coordination and communication, are necessary to minimise potential problems, and to ensure quality is achieved and maintained throughout.
In this short course, our experienced panel of speakers will provide practical information and guidance for those involved in the planning, management and supervision of concrete construction work.

Who Should Attend:

This course has been designed for all those in mid to senior level positions. Contracts managers, project managers and site engineers will all find this course very beneficial. Site supervisory personnel, consulting engineers, ready-mixed concrete producers, and client representatives will also benefit from attending.

Course Content:

09:30  Welcome
09:35  Planning | Ciaran Collins, Walls Construction
10:15   Formwork | Erich Sumperhofer, DOKA
10:45  Pre-pour Preparation | Feildhim McElhone, John Paul Construction
11.15    Break
11.25   Ordering and Delivery | Colin Heffernan, Roadstone
11:55   Placing and Compaction | Peter Bryant, KWIK RC Frames
12:25  Finishing & Curing | Joe Gartlan & Eoin O’Meara, John Sisk & Son
12:55  Site sampling and Testing | Vincent Anderson, MTS Ltd.
13.15   Q&A
13.30  Ends

CPD:

4 Hours

Fees: 

• Irish Concrete Society members: €95 pp
• Non-member: €145 pp
• 10% discount applies to groups of 5 or more

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Our Annual Golf Tournament with The Concrete Society Northern Ireland Region will take place on Wednesday 27th August 2025 in Kilkea Castle Golf Club.

Limited to 30 players, this is a member only event. A booking fee of €70 per player applies.

Tee-off will be from 9.24am with lunch afterwards in Hermione’s Restaurant. The competition is individual based with 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes. The 1st place golfer will also win the JKC Construction Perpetual Challenge Cup!

Kilkea Castle Golf Club

Located 40mins from Exit 9 on the M50, this championship golf course has been developed beneath the shadows of the 12th century Kilkea Castle. This magnificent setting allows the splendour of the castle to be viewed from every fairway.

Flowing through the castle grounds and estate, the River Griese acts as a natural hazard. Encountering the river at almost every hole, combined with a variety of other hazards and interesting greens, ensures golfers have a considered challenge on their hands. An additional two lakes included in the course design add to the overall difficulty of the challenge of this wonderful course.

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Introduction:

The N22 Baile Bhuirne to Macroom dual carriageway extends 22km from the eastern side of Macroom town to the western side of Baile Bhuirne in Co. Cork. The construction of the 130 structures (including four river bridges and 16 road bridges) involved in this project required significant innovation in structures and bridge design and also in the on and off-site construction methods.

This lunchtime webinar will explore the award-winning bridge crossings over the Sullane and Laney rivers, and the S02C Overbridge. Members of the project team will discuss various aspects of the innovative design and construction, structural engineering, concrete supply and precast concrete manufacturing, in addition to the environmental considerations involved in these structures.  Our speakers will offer valuable insights on the cooperation required in accomplishing these complex structures.

Programme:
Welcome | Irish Concrete Society
Overview of N22NBBM Project & Bridges | Fergal Noonan, Jons Civil Engineering
Sullane and Laney River Bridges Design | Willie Lalor, Egis
Sullane and Laney River Bridges Beam Design | Eamon Stack, Banagher Precast Concrete
Sullane and Laney River Bridges Construction | Kevin Dennehy, Jons Civil Engineering
Concrete Supply | Colin Heffernan, Roadstone
S02C Arch Bridge Design | Martin Bosak, Egis
S02C Arch Bridge Precast Design | Eamon Stack, Banagher Precast Concrete
S02C Arch Bridge Construction | Brian Cournane, Jons Civil Engineering
Questions & Answers

Who Should Attend:
This presentation will be of interest to all those who are involved in the design, specification and construction of concrete. Those who should attend include consulting engineers, engineers in contracting firms, specialist concrete sub-contractors, precast concrete designers, and ready-mixed concrete and precast concrete producers.

Booking Fee:
Free to attend.

CPD
1 Hour

Date: 18th June 2025 | Venue: George Moore Auditorium, UCD

Held by UCD every ten years from 1965 until 1995, the Concrete Practice in Ireland (CPI) symposia series was initially conceived by Prof. Sean de Courcy as a means of providing a snapshot of current practice and recent developments in concrete technology and practice, documented at ten-year intervals.

Following Prof. de Courcy’s passing in 2004, the decennial CPI series was paused in favour of a tribute symposium to his memory in 2006.

The Irish Concrete Society began a new phase of the CPI series in 2015 and is again hosting the symposium in 2025.

Programme:
8.30: Registration
9.45: Introduction | Robert Laird, ICS Chairperson
9.50: Keynote Address | Gerry Farrell, Irish Concrete Federation CEO

10.20: Session A: Concrete and its Constituents
Concrete: Specification, Performance, Production and Conformity | Keith Goodwin, Kilsaran
Aggregates | Dermot McCarthy, Roadstone
Cement and Additions | Éanna Nolan, Irish Cement
Session A Discussion

14.10 Session B: Application of Concrete
Developments in Pre-Cast Concrete | Caroline Quinn, Concast
Design in Concrete: Structures | Paul Healy / Eddie Lyons, OCSC
Design in Concrete: Infrastructure | Marcos Sánchez, Arup
Concrete Construction: Structures | Eamon Treacy, Walls Construction
Concrete Construction: Infrastructure | Declan Roche, BAM
Session B Discussion

16.25: Session C: Concrete Research in Ireland
Concrete Research in Ireland | Ciaran MCNally, UCD
Session C Discussion

17.10: Close

Who Should Attend:
This seminar will be of interest to al those in the concrete and wider construction industry.

Booking Fees:
Booking fees include lunch and a printed copy of the proceedings (published after the event).

• Standard Delegate: €175*
• Retired / Student: €85

*A 10% discount applies to bookings of 2 or more.

CPD
6.5 Hours

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