Advance Contracts

Advance Contracts can be categorised as either Investigation Contracts, or Enabling Works, or opportunistic Works. Investigation Contracts We use Investigation Contracts as an essential preparation for cost-effective risk allocation in a…

Conciliation and Dispute Resolution

TOBIN have been part of the integrated team delivering training to all Government Spending Departments and Local Authority staff on Government Construction Procurement Reform of the New Works Contracts and on the Conditions…

Contract Administration

In getting from concept, and intent, to actual realisation of the engineering project, contract administration is a key component in ensuring a successful outcome for the Client. In TOBIN, we realise this is the final, and most…

Contract Preparation and Procurement

Over the past five years, TOBIN have been involved in preparing Training Manuals, on the Irish Governments’ Capital Works Management Framework’. We have also contributed to developing web-based Guidance Notes explaining…

DBO Contractor's Designer

Following a number of Government policy changes within the Water Services Sector in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, the overall procurement of wastewater and water treatment headworks infrastructure changed from the use of Employer…

Feasibility Studies / Preliminary Reports

Feasibility Studies

A Feasibility Study is a first testing of the water on a concept. It seeks to answer the larger questions, and to screen the defining issues around the project, without committing significant…

Foreshore Lease / Licence Applications

In TOBIN, we have significant experience on an extensive number of projects, where Foreshore Leases and Licences are required. We know the procedural and supporting requirements for Outfalls, Harbour Works, WWTPs,…

Investigation Contracts

Designing without accurate information is like driving blindfolded. Leaving aside the cost and programme risks, the safety and buildability implications of not accurately mapping the existing conditions are immense. Many consider the…

Life Cycle Costs and Value Engineering

TOBIN are committed to achieving value for money in projects, by relentlessly pursuing the best combination of quality and whole-life cycle costs, which meets our clients’ requirements. This means that we don’t make…

Oral Hearing / Expert Witness

We in TOBIN are proud of our record in Oral Hearings. If Napoleon never promoted anyone to high office in the army without asking: “Is he lucky?”, he would have chosen us. The ingredients of luck are awareness, preparation,…

Planning

TOBIN Consulting Engineers provides a comprehensive Planning service for all planning requirements, to both public and private sector clients. The Planning Legislation in Ireland can be complex, and wide-ranging in its requirements, and is…

Project Management

In TOBIN, we appreciate that every project is unique, each presenting its own challenges and problems or throwing up unexpected obstacles at critical times. We do not believe in a ‘one size fits all’ approach to providing Project Management…

Project Supervisor Construction Stage

Background to the Role of Project Supervisor Design Process With the advent of various pieces of legislation there has been a marked increase in awareness of safety on construction sites. One of the key principles in the…

Project Supervisor Design Process (PSDP)

Safety and Health is a Core Value at TOBIN Consulting Engineers. This means that within our organisation the consideration of Safety and Health is more than an additional criterion against which to evaluate our…

Public Consultation

We in TOBIN have successfully conducted Public Consultation for a wide variety of projects. We listen well, we work hard to make technical matters easily understandable, and we know the dividend for a project, when people affected by it…

Risk Management

Even from childhood, we learn that it is an empowering thing, to name one’s fears, out loud. Time and again, we have learned that ambiguity, on risk and responsibility, on intentions or on lines of delegation, is the soil in which the seeds of…

Safety and Health

There is no more fundamental principle underpinning all we do as professionals than the protection of the safety and health of all of those who could be affected by our activities. Yet it should not be the basis why we do not proceed with a…

Site Supervision / Resident Engineer

Proper site supervision of construction activities is a vital part of the successful outcome of a project, ensuring compliance with the Clients’ requirements. On construction projects, it is usual for site supervision…

Statutory Processes

Success in navigating a project through a statutory process is founded upon precepts that are internalised in TOBIN culture over six decades. Know the law. Know the procedures. Consult early, and honestly. Attend carefully to the detail.…