Engineering Project of the Year 2012

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11/11/2012
Picture shows from left John Power, Director General, Engineers Ireland , with Joe Murphy, Project Director of the Cill Rónáin Harbour, on Inis Mór island, the largest of the three Aran Islands in Co. Galway,which has been voted Engineering Project of the Year by the Irish public in an online vote as part of the third Engineers Ireland Excellence Awards in association with ESB.Pic:Maxwells-no fee
The Cill Rónáin Harbour, on Inis Mór island, the largest of the three Aran Islands in Co. Galway, has been voted Engineering Project of the Year by the Irish public in an online vote as part of the third Engineers Ireland Excellence Awards in association with ESB, it has been announced.  The €39 million construction includes more than 77,000 tonnes of large natural stone blocks sourced from Connemara to protect the breakwater from erosion while the piers have been constructed from large concrete blocks up to 23 tonnes in weight.  The harbour within has a marine working area that is twice the size of Croke Park, with a large-scale physical model actually tested in a UK hydro laboratory prior to construction at Cill Rónáin.
Pic:Maxwells-no fee