IStructE NII’s Post

Tonight——-Dursey Island Cable Car Refurbishment Project - Engineers Ireland/IStructE Joint Evening Lecture - All Welcome. 7pm Wednesday February 26th at Rochestown Park Hotel Cork (tea/coffee from 6.30pm). Register for the webcast at https://lnkd.in/e4yzsTAm . The Dursey Island Cable Car was originally opened on December 5th 1969 and is located on the Beara Peninsula, West Cork, linking the mainland with the scenic inhabited Dursey Island.  It is Ireland’s only cable car service, and the only cable car in Europe that crosses open seawater. Operated and managed by Cork County Council, a structural assessment of the Dursey Island Cable Car in 2016 revealed that the support towers would reach the end of their operational life in the early 2020s. Roughan O’Donovan Consulting Engineers and contractor TLI Group were appointed to oversee the project, which involved the full replacement of the 24m tower structures and the island anchor frame. The system was shut on 31st March 2022 and reopened 9th June 2023. This lecture will cover all aspects of the engineering and construction of the cable car upgrade works. Speakers: Tim O’Herlihy (Cork County Council), Tony Dempsey (ROD), Inês Roque Domingues (ROD), Ruairí Geary (TLI Group) Engineers Ireland - Cork Region IStructE NII Engineers Ireland IStructE Headquarters Cork County Council Roughan & O'Donovan TLI Group Jim Leahy Please repost to your network - it would be great to get a good old-fashioned audience in the room as well as online. It promises to be a great lecture.