Archive for April, 1998

This year’s James Daly Memorial Lecture was delivered by the eminent French engineer and designer of the Normandie Bridge, Dr. Michel Virlogeux, in the Burke Theatre, Trinity College. When opened in 1995, the Pont de Normandie Bridge was the longest cable stayed bridge structure in the world, at 856m. It currently retains that position, although the Tatar Bridge in Japan, with a span of 890m, will surpass the span of Normandie when it opens later this year.

Pont de Normandie

Dr Eugene OBrien

The editor of this newsletter, Dr Eugene O’Brien, has been selected to be the next professor of Civil Engineering at University College Dublin. He is taking up the position on 1st July after 8 years as a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. He is a native of Co. Roscommon and did Bachelors and Masters degrees at University College Galway. Following completion of a Ph.D. at the University of Calgary in Canada, he spent a number of years with firms of consulting engineers in Dublin and as a director of Tower Software. During this period he earned his reputation as a bridge designer working on many bridges in Ireland and the UK. Read the rest of this entry »