John Bruen
ATU Building Change Coordinator'
Dr John Bruen is a qualified and registered architect in the UK with the Royal Institute of British Architects and Architects Registration Board and in Ireland with the Royal Institute of Architects Ireland where he holds additional PSDP and Conservation Architect (G3) qualifications. In addition to his architectural qualifications John also has a Master’s degree in Construction Project Management. John has worked in the UK and Ireland on large scale leisure, healthcare and educational projects as well as conservation and restoration projects. He has a practice and research interest in low carbon and low energy housing utilising MMC and alternative materials and is a trained Passiv house designer with the Passivhaus Institute in Germany, a qualified Building Energy assessor with the SEAI and has undertaken training in advanced sustainable timber construction in the KOMZET Centre in Germany. John has been active in research, teaching and thesis supervision in the fields of architecture, sustainable design and construction project management since 2010 in Queens University, Belfast and ATU Sligo. His research has involved working with international housing NGOs in sustainable housing delivery and has been recognised in peer reviewed journals and international conference awards.
Meet more of our team
Emma Geoghegan MRIAI
Head of Architecture, TU Dublin and SABE Lead for the Building Change project
Maroun Tabbal
Building Change Lead, Lecturer CCAE, mARCH AT6012 Coordinator, Year 2 Design Studio Tutor
Orla Murphy
Assistant Professor, Co-Director UCD Centre for Irish Towns, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy
Oliver Kinnane
Head of School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, UCD and Associate Professor of Sustainable Building Technologies
