TIC2024-PID077 - Jacques Hensen, Mark McGoldrick, Kavan Applegate and Helena Pombares

Bridging the Divide Between IT and Prison Design

Authors

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.

Kavan Applegate

Director, Guymer Bailey Architects, Australia

Kavan is the Chair of the ICPA Planning and Design Network and Director of Guymer Bailey Architects, specialising in specialist in justice and correctional architecture – therapeutic environments that facilitate rehabilitation, empower behavioural change and create a sense of hope to ultimately reduce recidivism rates and create a better, safer community for all.
Knowing that our environment has a profound effect on us, his passion is in harnessing the transformative effects of architecture to help people live better lives. Through the creative and sustainable use of building form and materials and the rehabilitative effects of daylight, Kavan believes architecture can significantly change the quality of life for those inhabiting its space. It is this ‘architecture of hope’ that he seeks to provide each day by delivering well planned, operationally effective and delight-filled masterplanning and building solutions.
Over the last 25 years, Kavan has led the design of many of Australia’s most innovative and iconic justice and correctional projects alongside our team including Hopkins Correctional Centre, Ravenhall Correctional Centre, Western Plains Correctional Centre, Rivergum Residential Treatment Centre, Southern Queensland Correctional Centre (St2), Southern Remand Correctional Centre, and the Thomas Embling Forensic Hospital Expansion as well as works in numerous other secure facilities.
As a Director of Guymer Bailey Architects, Kavan leads the exceptional architecture, landscape architecture and interior design team across our Melbourne and Brisbane Studios and overseeing our large-scale correctional projects.

Helena Pombares

Prison Architecture Specialist, Pick Everard, United Kingdom

Helena is an architect and criminologist with 18 years’ experience in justice architecture, and a lecturer at two universities in the UK. Helena joined Pick Everard, to connect research evidence and practice base. Her most recent contribution has been the HPM Glasgow project and the UK Ministry of Justice Women’s Estate scheme. Her research on salutogenic architecture of carceral spaces feeds her passion on the effects the built environment has on the users of the space, like staff and inmates, using the evidence found to inform planning and design of carceral spaces to positively impact society.

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