Our Team Leaders

Michael Walsh – Principal Engineer

CEng, B.E. (Hons), Dip Mech. Eng., MIEI

Michael has 25 years experience in the U.K. & Ireland, both on Site and as a Design Engineer in Civil Engineering. He established Walsh Design Group in 1995 and has been the Principal Engineer since. He has shown through example that commitment is as important as skill and that innovative problem solving is the key to successful design.

In 2010 Michael incorporated Browne Asset Solution Ltd., as a response to market needs, to provide a bespoke service to those managing or controlling distressed property portfolios. The company quickly gained a blue chip client list including all of the major banks and many leading receivership practices. In January 2013 the businesses of Walsh Design Group and Browne Asset Solutions Ltd. merged.

From our base in Douglas, Co. Cork, we have a broad nationwide portfolio and in the past number of years that work has included a wide variety of Community, Housing, Commercial, Hotel, Leisure and Industrial Projects, as well as Distressed Property Portfolios.

Michael has particular expertise in Project Co-Ordination, Structural Design and Design of Foul and Storm Water Infrastructure. He looks forward to new challenges and remains flexible in his approach to projects to ensure that the client always gets the best value.

Jamie Wallace – Senior Design Engineer

CEng, BEng, Nat Dip Eng, Nat Cert Eng, MIEI

Jamie qualified from Cork Institute of Technology in 2004 with an honours degree in Structural Engineering having progressed from the National Diploma in Civil Engineering course at the Institute. He received his initial postgraduate training with O’Shea Leader Consulting Engineers Cork where he gained early project experience in a busy office environment.

He left O’Shea Leader in 2008 to travel through Asia, Australia and America. He gained invaluable engineering site experience in Australia working at the 2009 Australian Grand Prix event at Albert Park, Melbourne, Victoria.

He returned to Ireland to work as Engineering Consultant with Elite Architects Engineers and Project Managers Limited in their Cork Office in 2010. Elite offered high specification turnkey buildings for often demanding clients. Jamie was lead engineer on many buildings designed to the Passiv Haus Standard.

He joined Walsh Design Group in 2011 as Senior Structural Design Engineer. He has always remained dedicated to continuing professional development and has recently completed courses in Structural Design to Eurocodes and in Passiv Haus Building Methods at Institutes in Ireland and Germany. He is a Chartered Engineer with Engineers Ireland.