Edith is a Director with Arup and a chartered building services engineer. She has over 35 years of experience in the design and delivery of complex projects with ambitious goals for technical excellence and sustainability. Throughout her career, Edith has worked on education, healthcare, technology, commercial and cultural projects, both new build and retrofit.

She is committed to ensuring that building systems are robust, resilient, easy and cost effective to own, operate and maintain. Edith’s current focus is on designing for circularity and net zero using a whole life carbon approach.

Gary is a Building Services Engineer with over 18 years of project management and design experience in the biotech,
pharmaceutical, industrial and commercial sectors. He is the Managing Director of OSENG Engineering Consultancy
based in the West of Ireland. OSENG specialise in design, project management, cost management, commissioning and
validation of Life Science projects. Gary has been a member of ASHRAE since 2013 and an active Board member since 2020.

Michael is a Technical Director with RPS Group and has worked in the building services industry since 1988, starting as a
graduate with the UK Property Services Agency before moving to Cork in 1996 to work with Arup. He has worked throughout Ireland initially in the pharmaceutical sector on cleanroom and process HVAC design, while also covering
educational, commercial and healthcare sectors. Michael ran a consultancy working on cleanroom HVAC and other
projects before joining RPS in 2013. He has a particular interest in maintaining historic buildings in use.

Donal Finn was ASHRAE Ireland Chapter President for 2018–2019 and a member of ASHRAE since 1998. He is a mechanical engineer by profession and is currently a lecturer at the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin.

Dr Simeon Oxizidis holds a PhD and MEng in Mechanical Engineering and is Senior Innovation Manager at IES Ltd. Simeon has 25 years of scientific research experience in Greece, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK. He has participated in more than 30 research projects and authored or co-authored more than 45 peer-reviewed papers. In his current role at IES he is involved in the conceptualisation, scoping, development and submission of grant proposals to fund collaborative research projects.

Frank Caul is Co-Founder at OPNBuildings and, despite insisting to whomever will listen that he is fully retired, continues to be instrumental in guiding the technological development of Building Performance Monitoring software. He has over forty years of experience in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning business. Frank began his career as a Refrigeration Apprentice and spent many years in the Commissioning Department of HA O’Neill before joining Temperature Control Services.