• Question: what is the biggest thing you have ever worked on

    Asked by #SPOT to Ashley, Catherine, John G, Laura, Ray on 13 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Catherine Conaghan

      Catherine Conaghan answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      The biggest? In relation to size it designing a mobile racking system for a large room that was 40m x 40m x 12m high in a huge warehouse in my last job. The racks had to hold around 4,000 pallets of food in a room that had a temperature of -18C to keep the food frozen, and the racks had to move on a track as well. To put that into perspective, 4000 pallets of pizza boxes is nearly 1 million pizzas in one room!

    • Photo: John Ging

      John Ging answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      The power system. It spans the entire country. I’ve been involved in lots of reinforcements to make it stronger.

    • Photo: Ashley Culbert

      Ashley Culbert answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Thats a hard one. I worked on maintaining Edenderry power which has a boiler 50m tall and an electrical output of 128 mega watts which is big enough to power Cork city.
      I worked on Mountlucas wind farm that had turbines that were 150m meters tall and an output of 80 mega watts.
      More recently I have been working on Meenadreen wind farm in Donegal that will be ging to construction soon. That will have turbines that will be 112 meters tall and an electrical output of 90 meag watts

    • Photo: Laura Tobin

      Laura Tobin answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      My work is on the small scale both physically and in terms of size. I mainly work on my own but my solar research feeds into a group of about 50 or so. The solar cells themselves are about the size of a 20c

    • Photo: Ray Alcorn

      Ray Alcorn answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      A 500 tonne wave energy device.. it arrived on a massive ship called biglift “happy river”. I was a HUGE structure.

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