About ‘CJ’

  

CJ Walsh - Architect & Fire EngineerC.J. Walsh   B Arch FRIAI MIBCI MIFS MIFireE

Registered Architect, Fire Engineer & Technical Controller.

 

Contact ‘CJ’ … 

e-mail:  cjwalsh@sustainable-design.ie 

phone (direct line):  +353-1-8386078 

 

  

He is a Member of:

International Council for Building Research (CIB) …

 - Working Commission 14: Fire

 - Working Commission 108: Climate Change & the Built Environment ;

EU 2003 (EYPD) Expert Group on Accessibility ;

EU 2004 Expert Working Group on Urban Environment Research ;

NSAI AASCC – National Standards Authority of Ireland, Accessibility-for-All Standards Consultative Committee.

 

He is a Life Member of the Institute of International & European Affairs (IIEA) in Dublin, Ireland.

 

 

Sustainable Design International Ltd.  is unique, internationally, for its high level of integration between sustainability research, architecture, fire engineering design and the technical control of construction.  This is due, with the support of his professional colleagues, to the drive and determination of C.J. Walsh.

 

Some highlights from his professional career …

 

In 1998, he contributed Ireland’s National Report to CIB Publication 225: Sustainable Development & the Future of Construction.  In 1998, he also drafted the European Charter on Sustainable Design & Construction.  Later in 2004, he drafted the Rio de Janeiro Declaration on Sustainable Social Development, Disability & Ageing, which was adopted at an International Conference in Brazil.

 

From 2000-2004 … he directed the European Fire Research Project: ‘Protection of People with Activity Limitations from Fire in Buildings’, involving Belgium, Italy, Sweden and Ireland.  During 2008, he chaired the ISO TC 59 / SC 16 / WG 1 Task Group on ‘Fire Safety for All’ and was the major contributor of the fire safety related texts to a new Draft International Accessibility Standard.  He is an acknowledged international expert on this complex aspect of Architectural and Fire Engineering Design.

 

In February 2007, he was First Session Chairperson, and Keynote Presenter on ‘Sustainable Fire Engineering’, at the FSAI’s (Fire & Safety Association of India) National Fire Seminar in Chennai;  later at the end of October 2008, he made a similar presentation on Sustainable Fire Engineering in Dubayy (UAE).  In August 2008, he returned to India to make a presentation on Fire Engineering Practice After WTC 9-11 at the FSAI Seminar in Bengaluru;  earlier in February 2006, he had made a similar Keynote Presentation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

 

 

 

During the late 1980′s and early 1990′s … C.J. Walsh worked as Research & Technical Officer in the Building Control Section of Dublin City, having responsibility for the specialized technical and fire safety related aspects of legislation and building inspections.  During this latter period, he was also in charge of the operation of the 1988 Local Government (Multi-Storey Buildings) Act, which resulted from the collapse of the multi-storey apartment block ‘Raglan House’, in January 1987, due to a gas explosion.
 
 For approximately 12 years from the mid-1980′s, he was a Member of the National Masonry Panel, an NSAI Consultative Committee.  His ground breaking text on ‘Progressive Collapse from Fire in Buildings’ appears in Irish Standard 325:Part 2:1995.  He is the first person to clearly distinguish this structural concept from the closely related concept of ‘Disproportionate Damage’. 
From 1986-1990, he organized a series of very successful International Fire Conferences in Dublin … continuing on to chair Ireland’s first National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) involvement in CEN’s (European Standards Organization) Harmonization Process for European Fire Test Standards.

 

 

C.J. Walsh continues to be involved in innovative architectural and interior design projects, and the restoration of historical buildings.

 

 

 

 

 

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