Jerry Geaney Engineering Consultants Ltd is a leading mechanical and electrical engineering consultancy based in Waterford. It is a sister company of GF Sustainable Ltd which operates out of Clonakilty in Co. Cork.
Established as a building services consultancy by Jerry Geaney in 1993, Jerry Geaney Engineering Consultants Ltd has grown to offer project management services, turnkey solutions to the process chemical industry, a comprehensive environmental service, carbon reduction initiatives and a renewable energy project portfolio unmatched by others. The practice aims to fully understand your requirements and offer realistic, value-for-money solutions to protect and improve your efficiency and performance. Its success can be attributed to the knowledge, experience and expertise of its project engineers, and its innovative and progressive approach to the design and delivery of practical and cost-effective solutions.
Providing a nationwide service, Jerry Geaney Engineering Consultants Ltd offers innovative design solutions for mechanical and electrical services in a wide range of projects. Jerry and his team liaise closely with clients, architects and project managers at each stage of the project to ensure they are delivered on time and within budget. Clients can rest assured that they will receive a professional and efficient service from project commencement to completion.
“I’m in the engineering consultancy business for over 40 years,” explains Jerry, who is joined in the practice by his wife Doreen, and sons Pearse and Cian.
“We have a wealth of experience in the areas of mechanical and electrical engineering, process chemical and sustainability. We provide a range of services in the design and management of building services projects. Being a family-run business allows us to give a more personal and hands-on service to our clients, regardless of the size, value or complexity of their project.”
Jerry Geaney Engineering Consultants Ltd delivers engineering projects to the domestic, commercial, industrial and public sectors. Most of the company’s workload is repeat business from clients who prize its understanding of their needs as well as its energy and determination to solve each challenge.
“The Department of Education is probably our biggest client, with school projects accounting for about 30 per cent of our overall business. The HSE is another good client of ours, while our private sector customers include hotels, factories and charities such as Focus Ireland and Enable Ireland. We are based in Honeywell Turbo Technologies in Waterford on an ongoing basis and have carried out work on the Sun Life Financial and Tech Mahindra call centres, which are also in Waterford,” Jerry says.
“Some of our clients have been with us since we set up the company almost 25 years ago.”
Jerry Geaney Engineering Consultants Ltd is the M&E design consultant to the new factory and visitor centre for Clonakilty Black Pudding in West Cork. The multi-million euro facility is being developed by the Twomey family at Hills Mills, Clonakilty and will employ 45 people.
Other projects include Little Sister of the Poor, St. Joseph’s Home, Ferrybank, Waterford; St Vincent de Paul Society – new Assisted Living Facility, Bath Street, Waterford; Presentation Secondary School, Waterford; housing development at Chairman’s Arch, Cathedral Square, Waterford; Maynooth Education Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare.
With a build cost of approximately €23 million, St. Joseph’s Home in Ferrybank is a state-of-the-art convent / care home located on an elevated site with wonderful views of the River Suir and Waterford City. The 10,577m2 of accommodation is spread over three inter-connecting wings and includes 48 bedrooms with associated communal areas, 22 apartments and 22 convent bedrooms with living accommodation.
The works on St Vincent de Paul, Bath Street, Waterford entailed the refurbishment and extension of existing premises in order to accommodate a new state-of-the-art hostel, providing 25 beds and ancillary services for homeless men, and involved the restoration of a derelict listed building on a difficult site.
The Presentation Secondary School project consisted of the construction of a 3,190m2 two-storey school with associated site works and services on the outskirts of Waterford City. Phasing of the works was required and these had to be carefully planned given the restricted size and a sizeable student body in the existing school that remained open throughout the build period.
Winner of the 2015 Irish Council of Social Housing Award for Regeneration, and located on a historic site in the heart of Waterford City in an area known as the ‘Viking Triangle’, housing development at Chairman’s Arch, Cathedral Square involved the refurbishment of a number of units for dwelling purposes and refurbishment of a three-storey protected structure.
Jerry Geaney Engineering Consultants are currently part of the Design Team overseeing the Maynooth Education Campus Project which involves the construction of two new Post Primary Schools and a Shared Sports Facility. The largest to be undertaken in any single development at second level.
The practice’s project management service includes ongoing client consultation throughout the project stages; feasibility studies; interim management (temporary professional management personnel); lessons learned (reviews of previous projects and ‘pitfall’ identification); estimate generation and cost analysis; project scheduling; safety, risk, design, construction and maintainability reviews; design team coordination in documentation preparation; peer reviews; obtaining all necessary approvals; competitive tendering; procurement services; construction supervision; commissioning and validation; project handover; maintainability management.
The Waterford-based firm offers innovative building services design solutions that evolve with the increasing sophistication of its clientele. Combining state-of-the-art materials with creative thinking and efficient dependable design, each project conforms to the appropriate regulations, are implemented safely and always allow for full maintainability throughout their lifetime. The company provides mechanical building services design, electrical building services design, renewable building services design, fire protection building services design, transportation building services design, surveys, planning documentation and environmental impact statements, M&E cost management, validation and expert witness among other things.
The practice’s project engineers have the capabilities to design, manage, construct and commission all your process chemical applications. They can also cater for your CAD requirement quickly, accurately and cost-effectively, and can carry out a wide range of environmental engineering projects for public and private sector clients alike.
In addition, Jerry Geaney Engineering Consultants Ltd has experience in all aspects of Health & Safety legislation, and can assist through the lifecycle of each project with risk assessments, ergonomic reviews, process hazard reviews, safety surveys, safety statements, safety training and so on.
The company is also assisting clients in both Ireland and the UK with reducing their carbon footprint. The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme or Carbon Reduction Commitment is a mandatory carbon emissions reduction scheme in the UK that applies to large non-energy intensive organisations in the public and private sectors and which aims to reduce carbon emissions by 1.2 million tonnes of carbon per year by 2020.
Four years ago, Jerry and Pearse Geaney joined forces with marine engineer Liam Flynn to form GF Sustainable Ltd, which provides sustainable energy engineering solutions and is based in Clogheen Business Park in Clonakilty. “The two companies complement each other,” Jerry points out.
Pearse is a chemical engineer by profession, while his brother Cian is a building services engineer with a Masters in Sustainability. Their involvement in the family-business should ensure that it continues to go from strength to strength in the years to come.
On a final note, Jerry Geaney Building Services are excited to announce a change in structure to the business throughout the year 2017/18. This is yet to be finalised, but will see the incorporation of a new business unit, that unit being “Energy Management Services”.
The new arm of “Energy Services” will help clients face the challenges posed by continuously increasing energy prices by offering an integrating energy management offer. This will incorporate efficient design to solutions which demonstrate demand side reduction of energy, CO2 and costs, lowering clients’ carbon footprint and running costs. The service will be provided to all new-builds or retrofit projects.
Core offering will include bureau services, data analysis, monitoring and targeting, design, build and operation of integrated energy services solutions for all types of portfolios. Specialised engineering processes and tools will be utilised to deliver guaranteed and verifiable energy savings. A complete management is offered of the entire process from bureau, audits, engineering, installation, construction, commission, and maintenance / aftercare operation. The company will also integrate renewable technologies where economically viable, whilst increasing performance of existing equipment and retrofitting best in class solutions.
This company restructure is currently in the development stage, but once launched it will allow it to work in partnership with past, existing and future clients, offering them an alternative solution of energy management, providing external funding options, the latest innovative energy technologies with quick returns in investment.
Jerry Geaney
Engineering Consultants Ltd
Studio 22,
Waterford Business Park,
Cork
Road,
Waterford.
Telephone: 051 879371
Fax: 051 853188
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.jerrygeaney.com
Taken from Building Ireland Magazine, August 2017, Vol 3 No 7
