2025 Winners

Please see below the winners and finalists from the 2025 Engineering Excellence Awards.

The winners were announced on Thursday, October 23, at the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire.

Engineering Project of the Year

WINNER:

Ayesa - Arklow Wastewater Treatment Plant

Engineering Firm of the Year

WINNER:

IN2 Engineering Design Partnership

FINALISTS:

  • IN2 Engineering Design Partnership
  • LotusWorks
  • PanelDuct
  • Shareridge
  • Strata
  • TEM Engineering & Management DAC
  • Verus Metrology Partners

Civil Engineering Project of the Year

WINNER:

Ayesa - Arklow Wastewater Treatment Plant

FINALISTS:

  • Ayesa - Arklow Wastewater Treatment Plant
  • Charles Brand - Belfast Tidal Flood Alleviation Scheme
  • Shareridge Civil Engineering - Windmill Hill Reservoir and Trunk Watermain to Ratoath
  • Source Civil - AMS 11 Data Centre

Manufacturing Engineering Project of the Year

WINNER:

PanelDuct - Bespoke Plenums at Pharmaceutical Facility

FINALISTS:

  • PanelDuct - Bespoke Plenums at Pharmaceutical Facility
  • Writech Industrial Services - Workshop Upgrade Initiative

Software & Electrical Engineering Project of the Year

WINNER:

Greenlink Interconnector

FINALISTS:

  • Greenlink Interconnector
  • Lehding Services Design - Flight Club Dublin (Electrical)
  • Lehding Services Design - Sandbox VR Dublin (Electrical)
  • Rent the Runway - Observability and Site Reliability Transformation
  • Technidrive - Crusher Unblock
  • Telclic - Station Lite

Mechanical Engineering Project of the Year

WINNER:

Dairymaster - Revolutionising Large-Scale Dairy Farming with DM3X+ & RoboSpray

FINALISTS:

  • Cundall - Leeson Lane
  • Cundall - Public Sector Data Centre
  • Dairymaster - Revolutionising Large-Scale Dairy Farming with DM3X+ & RoboSpray
  • IN2 Engineering Design Partnership
  • WuXi Biologics - UV-Vis Spectrometer Waste Diversion System

Mechanical Engineering Project of the Year - Small

WINNER:

Nuálach Automation - Eggsact Robot Packer

FINALISTS:

  • Lehding Services Design - Flight Club Dublin (Mechanical)
  • Lehding Services Design - Sandbox VR Dublin (Mechanical)
  • Nuálach Automation - Eggsact Robot Packer
  • One Point Zero - ClimateFlow
  • PanelDuct - Bespoke Plenums at Pharmaceutical Facility

Environmental Engineering Project of the Year

WINNER:

Transport Infrastructure Ireland - Carbon Reduction on the M7

FINALISTS:

  • EPS Group - Winchburgh Wastewater Treatment Works
  • McCloy Consulting - River Santry Rainscapes Project
  • Technidrive - Technivac
  • Transport Infrastructure Ireland - Carbon Reduction on the M7
  • WuXi Biologics - UV-Vis Spectrometer Waste Diversion System

Rising Star in Engineering

WINNER:

Taoglas - Ben Hannity

FINALISTS:

  • Cundall - Samreet Singh
  • Taoglas - Ben Hannity

Women in Engineering Award

WINNER:

EDC Engineering Design Consultants - Sara Steele

FINALISTS:

  • Colloide - Marian Smyth
  • EDC Engineering Design Consultants - Sara Steele

Engineering Team of the Year

WINNER:

Dairymaster - Engineering Team

FINALISTS:

  • ASEE Group - Engineering Team
  • Colloide - Limavady Production Team
  • Dairymaster - Engineering Team
  • LotusWorks - Datacenter Commissioning Team
  • Viatris - Damastown Reliability Team

Excellence in Education

WINNER:

University of Limerick

FINALISTS:

  • Phlow Academy
  • Queen's University Belfast
  • University of Limerick

Innovation in Engineering

WINNER:

Croom Medical - TALOS™ Tantalum 3D-Printing for Orthopedic Implants

FINALISTS:

  • Croom Medical - TALOS™ Tantalum 3D-Printing for Orthopedic Implants
  • Dairymaster - DM3X+ & RoboSpray
  • ORS - Data-Driven Innovation in Public Housing Inspections
  • Rent the Runway - E-Commerce Through Scientific Methodology
  • Taoglas - Antenna Integrator
  • Technidrive - Drumdrive
  • Viatris - Damastown Reliability Team and Viatris Global 3D Technology
  • WuXi Biologics - Dynamic Control Automation System

Best People Development in Engineering

WINNER:

ESB

FINALISTS:

  • EDC - Engineering Design Consultants
  • ESB
  • PUNCH Consulting Engineers
  • WuXi Biologics - People Development Benefits Everyone

Graduate Training Programme of the Year

WINNER:

ORS - Shape Your Future Graduate Programme

FINALISTS:

  • DBFL Consulting Engineers - Graduate Development Programme
  • H&MV Engineering - Electrical Engineering Graduate Programme
  • Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail - Graduate Development Programme
  • Liberty IT - TechStart Programme
  • ORS - Shape Your Future Graduate Programme

Excellence in Health & Safety

WINNER:

Clare County Council

FINALISTS:

  • Clare County Council
  • LotusWorks

Operational Excellence Award

WINNER:

Viatris

FINALISTS:

  • Cully
  • Viatris

Sustainability Award

WINNER:

Transport Infrastructure Ireland

FINALISTS:

  • BioMarin International
  • ESB
  • Transport Infrastructure Ireland

Engineering Consultancy of the Year

WINNER:

ORS

FINALISTS:

  • Amey
  • Cundall
  • EDC - Engineering Design Consultants
  • IN2 Engineering Design Partnership
  • ORS

Engineering Consultancy of the Year - Small

WINNER:

Geaney Engineering Consultants

FINALISTS:

  • Geaney Engineering Consultants
  • PanelDuct
  • SEAM
  • Technidrive
  • TEM Engineering & Management DAC

Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Strategy of the Year

WINNER:

DBFL Consulting Engineers

FINALISTS:

  • DBFL Consulting Engineers
  • ESB - Embedding Gender Equality in Our Culture
  • Queen's University Belfast - School of EEECS - Staff and Student DEI Strategy
  • Rent the Runway - FASHION SHOULD BE FOR EVERYONE, AND SO SHOULD OUR WORKPLACE
  • TEM Engineering & Management DAC

Apprenticeship Programme Award

WINNER:

H&MV Engineering

FINALISTS:

  • BioMarin
  • ESB - Powering Ireland’s Future Through Our People
  • H&MV Engineering
  • Quinn Downes Group