London and South East

London and South East

Tara Walsh

Tel: +44 207 826 4949

Tara Walsh L.L.B. is a Senior Consultant specialising in contracts and dispute resolution within the Construction Economics Division of Mott MacDonald Ireland.

Her role involves providing and advising client organisations including both private and public, on all aspects of contractual matters on a variety of contractual forms across a wide range of projects including transportation, industrial, commercial, residential, power, and pharmaceutical throughout the project lifecycle.

Tara has gained a wealth of experience both in the UK and Internationally on all forms of alternate dispute resolution (litigation, arbitration, adjudication, mediation) and she has been instrumental in managing, preparing, defending and negotiating on numerous disputes.

In 2008 while studying a Post Graduate Course in Construction Law and Arbitration at Trinity College Dublin, Tara met Susan Bryson, the founder of the National Association of Women in Construction, Ireland.  Susan offered Tara the opportunity to become Vice Chairperson of NAWIC Ireland, a role that Tara was honoured to hold.

The women in the Irish branch have an infectious enthusiasm for the construction industry and the events organised to date have included some high profile site visits and speakers which has meant that events are usually overbooked.  Tara says it was heart warming that the establishment of NAWIC Ireland was received so well.

Tara’s secondment to London meant Tara could not be as involved as she would like in Dublin, however, Erin Karsten welcomed Tara into the London branch of NAWIC and she has been attending events organised in London since June 2009.

In 2008 Tara was involved with a charitable organization the ‘Niall Mellon Trust’ which builds homes in South Africa and took part in the largest movement of volunteers to travel together in 2008. She travelled with three other family members and raised over €20,000 for the trust. Tara also raises money annually for the Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Dublin, competing in 10km runs in the Phoenix Park in Dublin every April and the Women’s Mini Marathon in Dublin City each June.

Tara also loves to travel enjoying different cultures and cuisine. She loves languages and is fluent in Gaelic, rusty on French but hopes to improve this.

"The construction industry is made up of so many different disciplines that I welcome the opportunity to work in partnership with architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and other lawyers. Each discipline thinks in a unique way and being surrounded by people from every type of professional, geographic and ethnic background offers the chance to really understand the construction process from conception to completion of projects everywhere.”