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Energy Conservation
Immersion heater verses boiler to heat water at home
How do heat recovery systems work? Thermal Wheels
Green energy options for Irish Schools
How much does my immersion heater cost to heat water?
The relative costs of using different fuels to heat your home
How much does an oil boiler cost per hour
How to reduce your home energy bills
External boiler houses discussed
Existing building issues
House insurance. Rebuilding cost.
Building advice for school managers
Using a chipper to turn waste branches into useful mulch
Is your timber decking slippy?
Measuring cracks with tell-tales
Guest article: Preventing ignition failure in an auger fed wood pellet boiler
Repairing burst copper water pipes
Historic Buildings
Babylonian Law: The first building regulations
Historic buildings and sustainable design
War Bunkers: Part of the Atlantic Wall
Skew arch bridges in County Kildare
Too big to knock. The U-boat base in Saint Nazaire
What if an earthquake hit Ireland and the UK
Sallins sugar factory: Irelands first RC building
Infrastructure
Funny and confusing Irish road signs
Irish Rail: 2013 timetable changes
An alternative to Metro North?
French motorways: 4 ways to improve.
Swiss bus crash: Lessons for the Dublin Port Tunnel?
Skid Row: A phrase from construction
The Hidden Railway:Irish Peat Bog Railways
Irish Rail. Double charging on some routes?
Irish Rail. Do you love your train station?
Road verses Rail. Part 1: The case for roads
Road verses rail. Part 2, the case for rail
Historic French infrastructure. Different ways to cross water
New extension to Dublin’s LUAS line is open. But is it too long?
Why there are no ladders in Irish canal locks?
More tolls proposed for Irish motorways
Irish motorway lane merge markings
M1 motorway in the UK closed due to fire under road
A machine that lays instant brick paved road
Irish motorway network complete
New M4 motorway service complex
Dundrum LUAS bridge defaced by phone mast
The importance of railway gauge
New Building Issues
Irish Rain: Keeping Ireland dry
Priory Hall. End self certification
10 features of future buildings
People and Media
UK Houses: Why Romney was partly correct.
In China: 30 storey building built in 15 days
Stress and worry: How engineers’ tools may help.
Solutions to Bridge Architect: Another engineering game
Elite. The most ground breaking computer game ever?
Irish construction and road deaths at new lows
On engineering – Herbert Hoover
Solutions to X Construction the engineering computer game
The Airbus A320 and the miracle on the Hudson
Using Google to predict the future
Engineering and computer games
TV. ‘Help my house is falling down’
Technical and Discussion
How to increase seating capacity on trains
Ireland should buy and aircraft carrier with its air budget
Hand sketches: The buildings of the Phoenix Park
The right tools: Cutting wood.
French Motorways: 7 ideas we should copy
The Tallest Building in Europe: The Shard
Slate. A fragile wall cladding
How to bleed a Firebird oil boiler
Your Car: Ensure your scuttle drains are clear
Turn off your fog lights when there is no fog!
The A380 Super-jumbo: a personal viewpoint
The EU: 10 reasons why Europe has a bright future
An unsung hero of the recent Dublin floods. Pollaphuca Dam
My 10 best WordPress plug-ins, 2011
Cool Irish weather attracts Google: new data centre announced
Obtaining dry firewood should be a burning desire
On the road. Playing chicken with sheep
Corrosion protection of steelwork
A country’s need for heating or cooling
For peats sake, leave the raised bogs alone
Temper the gloom for the little ones
Distinctive Engineering detailing
Strasbourg factory visit: Bitumen roofing membrane
The Irish construction industry and political influence
Snap said my car engines timing belt
Why do steel railways not rust and fall apart?
DART underground completed in Malmo
Salt supplies for de-icing roads
Building frame left exposed to the weather
Various
What does a Structural Engineer do?
One year of The Helpful Engineer
What’s with the iPhone? Samsung Galaxy S2 V’s iPhone 4
Lunch time: My favorite sandwich
Some of the tallest buildings in the world are oil rigs
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