‘A Gentle Whisper in Your Ear’

About ‘CJ’

  

C.J. Walsh   B Arch FRIAI MIBCI MIFS MIFireE

Consultant Architect, Fire Engineer & Technical Controller.

 

Consultant to An Bord Pleanála, the Irish Planning Appeals Board.

Legally registered, in Ireland, as an ‘Architect’.

 

 

 

Contact ‘CJ’ … 

by e-mail: cjwalsh@sustainable-design.ie 

phone (direct line): +353-1-8386078 … or locally at (01) 8386078 

 

 

  

C.J. Walsh is a Member of:

International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) …

• Working Commission 14: ‘Fire Safety’
• Working Commission 108: ‘Climate Change and the Built Environment’ ;

EU EYPD Expert Group on Accessibility ;

EU 2004 Expert Working Group on Urban Environment Research ;

NSAI AASCC – Accessibility-for-All Standards Consultative Committee of the National Standards Authority of Ireland ;

NFPA – National Fire Protection Association (USA) ;

IABSE – International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering.

 

 

 

 

Legal ‘Architect’ Registration Certificate

 

 

 

C.J. Walsh is Secretary of the IABSE Irish National Group (2011-2012).

 

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

 

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Current International Projects:

 

   1. C.J. Walsh is the Leader of CIB W14′s Research Working Group IV: ‘Fire-Induced Progressive Collapse’ … a necessary fire research and innovation project which responds directly to the Structural Fire Engineering Recommendations contained in the 2005 & 2008 NIST(USA) Final Reports on the 9-11 WTC Building 1, 2 & 7 Collapses.

 

   2. He is a major contributor to CIB W108′s Project on ‘Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation in the Built Environment’ … suggested by him at a 2008 CIB W108 Meeting in Nantes, France … and which will result in a Special CIB Report to be published in 2012.

 

   3. He is also a major contributor to the drafting of a new International Standard … ISO 21542: ‘Building Construction – Accessibility & Usability of the Built Environment’ (soon to be published as a Full International Standard) … and produced all of the initial fire safety related texts in this document …

 

ISO FDIS 21542: ‘Building Construction – Accessibility & Usability of the Built Environment’  (PDF File, 4.15 Mb)

 

 

 

 

Sustainable Design International Ltd. (Ireland, Italy & Turkey)  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 CJ’s 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 & 2009, 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 ISO International Accessibility-for-All Standard, which will be published at the end of 2011, or the beginning of 2012.  He is an acknowledged international expert on this complex aspect of Architectural and Fire Engineering Design.

 

In February 2007, he was First Technical Session Chairperson, and Keynote Presenter on ‘Sustainable Fire Engineering’, at the FSAI’s (Fire & Security 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.

 

 

C.J. Walsh continues to be involved in innovative architectural and interior design projects, and the restoration of historical buildings … and to travel widely and regularly, making important keynote presentations at conferences, seminars and workshops.

 

 

 

Much Earlier … 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 in one of the apartments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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