Kate O’Hea
Associate Director BArch MRIAI Accessibility Auditing (UL)
Kate has extensive design and construction experience working on a range of project types throughout her career covering all stages of a projects course. She has worked on large, stand-alone buildings as well as highly complex, smaller scale interventions in live hospitals. Kate is adept at contract administration with vast experience of the role of Employers Representative and her dedication and work ethic are apparent from the diverse projects which she has delivered throughout her career.
As part of her extensive portfolio, Kate delivered the 100-bed Medical Residential Treatment and Recovery centre for the Dublin Simon Community at Usher’s Island on Dublin’s quays. The Centre is knitted into Dublin’s historic fabric and required a sensitive mediation between challenging elements of conservation and archaeology, and contemporary architecture which responds to complex client needs.
Within the practice, Kate O’Hea is an expert in Universal Design. She leads O’Connell Mahon’s Accessibility Focus Group and has been instrumental in establishing the company’s proven track record on design for inclusivity and accessibility which is evidenced by various practice awards and publications in this area.
