Closing in on the tenth anniversary of its inception, Parry Engineering Consultancy is firmly established in the specialist fields of engineering design, design management, project management, troubleshooting / forensic engineering and due diligence. Building Ireland gets an update on this industry-leading and ever-evolving consultancy from managing director Hugh Parry.
A chartered engineer and a member of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), Hugh Parry has been involved in the building services industry for three decades and counting, working extensively in the critical arenas of engineering design and property asset management.
Hugh incorporated Parry Engineering Consultancy as a limited company in October, 2017, having previously been a founding partner in Parry Dougan Associates. Operating out of Drogheda in County Louth, Parry Engineering Consultancy provides exceptional specialist services to clients across the island of Ireland and even further afield.
The consultancy’s vast experience and expertise spans a wide range of industry sectors, with specialties including – but by no means limited to – building services engineering design, design management, project management, troubleshooting / forensic engineering, due diligence, facilities management and expert witness.
As construction by its very nature continues to progress, change and evolve, Parry Engineering Consultancy constantly moves with the times and embraces new innovations, trends and demands. Thus, while Hugh and his team continue to deliver the same services for which they are renowned far and wide, being ready, willing and able to adapt to changing demands is invaluable. And PEC boasts the expertise and flexibility to seamlessly meet prevailing industry circumstances…
“Changes in the industry have driven different work streams,” Hugh confirmed when we touched base with him during the summer of ’26. “Over the last two to three years we have experienced an increase in the amount of project work we’re doing, on the design side of things. This often follows on from the technical due diligence that we specialise in.
“The project work is on a focused scale – e.g. office fit outs, refurbs, or individual floors on a building. We’ve also done quite a few upgrades to industrial premises – i.e. warehousing and distribution.
“We’re also seeing a trend where owners of buildings are upgrading their stock from an energy efficiency perspective to improve the BER and performance of those buildings, so we’re getting involved in designing the mechanical and electrical aspects of those energy efficiency upgrades so that they incorporate heat recovery systems, energy efficient ventilation and air conditioning, solar panels, heat pumps, etc. Energy efficiency is a massive consideration these days and that’s a trend we are delighted to be involved in.
“Where a client has a building that becomes partly or fully vacantr, we might be involved in the dilapidation elements and in many cases they will also want to upgrade and refurbish the floor space to attract new tenants. From our perspective, this work might also include an energy efficiency upgrade.”
How a building performs is just as important – if not more so! – as how it looks, and this is where the proven expertise of Parry Engineering Consultancy really comes to the fore.
As an M&E consultancy services provider with a focus on building asset management, the business is borne out of a particular understanding of building owners’ and occupiers’ needs, which transcends mere engineering design. A broad sphere of specialist services is professionally delivered on a daily basis, including dilapidations, technical due diligence, expert work for litigation and legal cases, and work for insurance companies / loss of assets.
When one adds in energy efficiency upgrades and associated project work, it’s clear that Parry Engineering Consultancy is today delivering a diverse yet related range of specialist services. “You could say it’s a broadening of the palette in terms of what we do, in direct response to what’s trending in the industry at the minute,” says Hugh.
Parry Engineering Consultancy benefits from a large volume of repeat work from satisfied clients and has a presence nationwide – plus the capacity to leverage its expertise internationally: “It’s predominantly Leinster-based as that’s where most of our clients are, but this week alone I’ll be going to Cork and Limerick for an energy efficiency upgrade project and a dilapidations inspections.
“We have a national spread and there’s no geographical limit to what we can do. We could potentially work internationally – and indeed there are consultancies in the UK that we do reciprocal work for – but, having said that, 90 per cent of our work is in Leinster at present and, within that, 90 per cent of that is in Dublin, because that’s where our clients are located.”
How vital is it to be continuously upskilling, re-educating and remaining up to speed on everything going on in the industry – and specifically the mechanical and electrical sectors? “It’s a must. To this end, only today I’ve just had a discussion about the latest standards of fire alarms and how to interpret them. You have to keep abreast of all the standards and norms of practice.
“With due diligence work, you are not just looking at what’s currently being done and done right, but also what’s been done wrong and how do we improve on that?”
With project work representing an increasing percentage of the workload, the lion’s share of Parry Engineering Consultancy’s activities involves the existing building stock – surveying existing buildings, finding deficiencies and improving performance. “To increase efficiencies across the board, you can’t just build new buildings; existing ones need to be improved,” Hugh concludes.
Parry Engineering Consultancy Ltd.,
Unit 9,
Greenhills Industrial Village,
Drogheda,
County Louth
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 041 9830365
Mobile: 087 9501615
This article was published in Building Ireland Magazine, Winter 2026, Vol 12 No 13
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