Sustainable Swords Strategy Transportation Planning|Danny Pio Murphy

About this episode

Danny Pio Murphy discusses sustainable transportation strategies and the importance of diversity in engineering amidst various crises.

Engineering faces housing crisis, climate change crisis and biodiversity crisis simultaneously requiring everyone onboard with diversity of thought for new solutions. Danny Pio Murphy shares how sustainable swords strategy engaged 800 school children and hundreds of adults through covid restrictions, why plumburroughs greenfield site allowed testing protected cycle infrastructure before design manuals existed, how DBFI Consulting Engineers achieved gold accreditation investors for diversity with 85% inclusivity score, and why half LGBT engineers remain closeted through fear despite marriage equality referendum changing Irish society fundamentally. The chartered transportation engineer, associate director at DBFL Consulting Engineers and former chair of engineers Ireland inclusion diversity society discusses mentoring graduates through four year development programmes, intelligent mobility hubs coming online Cork Docklands, and why people skills matter as much as technical expertise when moving from engineer to leadership. THINGS WE SPOKE ABOUT Kids want safer routes school cycling tracks greening Greenfield sites test new infrastructure before manuals exist Half LGBT engineers…

People in this episode

Guest: Danny Pio Murphy

Topics covered

• sustainable transportation
• diversity in engineering
• climate change
• mentoring
• infrastructure development
• LGBT inclusivity

Keywords

• sustainable swords strategy
• cycling infrastructure
• diversity accreditation
• intelligent mobility hubs
• LGBT engineers
• mentoring graduates
• climate crisis
• biodiversity crisis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DBFL Consulting Engineers, Engineers Ireland, DBFI Consulting Engineers

Places: Ireland, Cork Docklands

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