About us

Enda Grimes

Enda is the Director and Founder of Strata. He is a highly experienced construction planner with almost 20 years’ experience, working across all construction sectors. At Strata, he leads a specialist engineering team who provide expert planning, visualisation and delay analysis services.

Enda was previously the head planner for Skanska on the ESS (European Spallation Source) project in Sweden, one of Europe’s largest active infrastructure projects. The ESS project is a circa €2 billion scientific research facility involving a 600m linear accelerator tunnel and once operational, it will become the world’s most powerful neutron source. Strata continues to provide ongoing planning management support for this project.

Enda also worked with PJ Hegarty & Sons and John Paul Construction, two of Ireland’s leading main contractors. In his role as planning and bid manager for John Paul construction, he expanded the planning department to deliver tender bid submissions, pre-construction and planning management for all projects in the U.K, Ireland and the Middle East.

Enda has a specialty in construction delay analysis, having completed an MSc in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution at Kings College London. This along with his considerable planning expertise has enabled him to conduct multiple delay analysis including as-planned versus as-built and time impact analysis to support and defend extensions of time. He has extensive knowledge of dispute resolution methods and has presented at multiple negotiation meetings as well as in the commercial courts.

Christopher Dunn

Chris is a Senior Planner, with over ten years’ international experience working on challenging, high-value projects across all construction sectors.

His current responsibility involves preparing detailed construction programmes, project phasing and logistical plans for construction tenders in the UK and Ireland. He also manages the planning and project controls function for a significant commercial development and healthcare project in Dublin.

His previous experience includes working as a QA QC Supervisor on the Gorgon LNG project, one of the world’s largest natural gas projects, and as a project manager on the multiple award winning Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth, Australia, among others.

Chris is fluent in both English and French.

Collette Dowd

Collette is a Senior Planner, with over twelve years’ international experience, working on the design, planning and construction of a range of transport, civil infrastructure and other sector projects in Ireland, Mainland Europe and Australia.

Collette’s current responsibility involves preparing detailed construction programmes, project phasing and logistical plans for construction tenders as well as managing planning and project controls for a European based Pharma project.

Prior to joining Strata, Collette was the regional pre-contracts planner with one of Australia’s largest infrastructure construction companies. In this role, she was responsible for planning of transport projects delivered under Construct Only, Design & Construct and Alliance contractual arrangements.

Collette has excellent construction project management knowledge, developed from working as a site and project engineer across a wide variety of civil construction projects. She has excellent communication skills and takes great pride in ensuring she always identifies key stakeholders in a project early, and quickly works to build a positive working partnership with them

Felipe Dias

Felipe is a 4D Modeller and BIM Engineer with responsibility for our in-house modelling and project visualization team, which when combined with our schedules, deliver a comprehensive, multi-faceted construction planning package.

Felipe brings a wealth of practical Engineering knowledge to his role with over ten years’ experience, project managing and supervising construction sites. He previously established his own construction company, which focused on the construction and refurbishment of houses, apartments and industrial units. Prior to this, he worked as a construction planner for one of the largest real estate companies in Brazil.

Felipe is a really savvy 4D modeller. He has a clear and proficient knowledge of the leading modelling (3D and 4D) software, and leverages his very practical construction knowledge when linking the visualisation of the model to the construction scheduling and sequencing.

Felipe is fluent in both Portuguese and English.

Matthias Moser

Matthias is a Senior Planner, with over ten year’s international construction experience working with some of Europe’s largest construction companies.

His current responsibility involves managing the planning and project controls function for a significant commercial redevelopment, consisting of the retention and refurbishment of protected Georgian structures and construction of new office blocks. As part of this responsibility, he develops detailed  programmes, manages planning and reports to the client on construction progress.

His previous experience involved working as a contract and claims manager on the EÜ Filstal project, a 485 m long railway overpass in Stuttgart, Germany, where he was responsible for identifying contractual deviations both commercially and against time, verifying rationale for same and preparing the supporting analysis for claims.

Matthias has worked as a site engineer and site supervisor, across all building sectors, including civil engineering and infrastructure construction, where he held the responsibility for generating and managing construction programmes of increasing complexity.

Matthias is fluent in both German and English.

Neif Silveira

Neif is a 4D Modeller and BIM Engineer, and along with developing our models, he combines them with our schedules to deliver a comprehensive, multi-faceted construction planning package.

He is a Civil Engineer with a master’s degree in Project Planning and Management and has over 10 years’ experience working with some of the largest Brazilian construction companies. He leverages this knowledge when linking the visualisation of our 3D and 4D models to the construction schedule and sequence.

Neif is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English.

Melissa Sheehan

Melissa is Strata’s office administrator and with ease, she coordinates all of our day to day administrative operations. Her responsibilities include efficient handling of client enquiries, book keeping, travel planning and general office management. Prior to joining Strata, Melissa worked in corporate finance for over 15 years, at banks based in Dublin, London and Sydney.

Melissa left the corporate finance world in 2017 to pursue her love of food. Along with her part time position at Strata, she is busy completing a culinary entrepreneurship course at the Dublin Institute for Technology

Pedro Tonollier

Pedro is a Visualisation & BIM Technician, who supports the development of our construction models and animations.

He is a civil engineer, with a strong technical knowledge due to his experience from working with a government authority and an engineering consultancy. Pedro also has a great ability for visualization and this along with his technical knowledge ensures he effectively links our models to our schedules and sequences.

Pedro is fluent in Portuguese and English.