Limerick Women’s Prison, A Design for Hope

IPIC 2024 Presentation by Mark McGoldrick (IPIC2024-PID024)

Author

Mark McGoldrick

Head of Estates, Irish Prison Service, Ireland

Mark has served with the Irish Prison Service for the past 15 years and has vast knowledge and expertise in prison design, development, and delivery of major capital projects as well as day-to-day minor works/repairs and renovations. He is also responsible for the infrastructural services and maintenance of the Estate’s portfolio.

Having an educational background in building design and construction with a particular focus on Fire Safety, Mark has held senior management positions with the Irish Prison Service, Health Service Executive (Irish Health Service), and Dublin Airport Authority. Mark is a Chartered Engineer and in a previous roles he was the Fire Safety Manager and Capital Project Manager for the Irish Prison Service for a number of years.
In his Project Management role he has oversaw the delivery many multi million euro capital projects for example the new Cork Prison in 2016 (€49m), Castlerea Prison Phase 1 redevelopment (€4.8m) and more recently the Limerick Prison redevelopment project (€71.5m).

Today as the Head of Estates with Irish Prison Service, Mark has delivered the Estates strategic direction as set out in the IPS Strategic Plan(s). He excels at prison planning and is aware that the prison estate is complex, dynamic and ever changing to meet the needs of an ever growing prisoner population and in particular addressing the complex needs of male and female prisoners in providing suitable building environments.

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