Bryan Heffernan

Bryan started his career in 2000 working for Ireland’s largest building services engineering consultant Varmings. Since then Bryan has worked for a number of international consultancies such as Jacobs Engineering and Waterman International. In his early career Bryan was exposed to a wide range of experience in various building services industries such as hospitality, pharmaceutical, industrial, research and healthcare.

Bryan relocated from Ireland to the UAE (Dubai) in 2008 and has been with James L Williams (JLW) Middle East since 2011. Bryan initially joined JLW as Senior Mechanical Engineer and has grown with the business to become the Technical Director in charge of engineering.

Bryan’s primary role as Technical Director within JLW is the management of the engineering and BIM department. He currently manages a design team of 100+ design engineers, BIM/Revit managers, coordinators and modelers/technicians.

Bryan’s particular area of expertise is the execution of design and build contracts for large scale MEP projects. This role entails taking a project, or number of projects, from the preliminary concept stage through to estimation, detailed design, development of shop/fabrication drawings, through to installation, commissioning and final handover.

In 2014 Bryan pioneered the development of JLW’s modular prefabrication design team who have to date delivered over 20,000 multi service MEP prefab modules across all of JLW’s recently delivered and current projects.

Together with leading the engineering department Bryan also plays an important role in providing technical support for JLW’s project teams, estimation, procurement, and commissioning departments.