Fintan Buggy

Fintan Buggy

BSc (Hons) MSc CEng MICE MIEI
Registered Ground Engineering Adviser

Technical Director

Fintan Buggy is a technical director at ROD. 

An expert in ground improvement for road and railway infrastructure on soft ground, Fintan led ROD’s design for the geotechnical aspects of Sunderland's Northern Spire BridgeLimerick Southern Ring Road PPP and the M7/M8 PPP projects.  He also led the design of Herring Bridge in Great Yarmouth, UK.

Prior to joining ROD, Fintan spent more than 25 years working in the UK and the US on a broad range of projects, including bridges, major roads, pipelines, dams, commercial developments and large industrial and mine tailings projects

He is the Irish representative on the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) TC202 Transportation Geotechnics and a member of the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) TC015 committee providing review and comment on revisions to Eurocodes and geotechnical standards.  He is a past chairman of the Engineers Ireland Geotechnical Society of Ireland (2014-2016). 

Fintan has published case history papers both in Ireland and internationally.