2023-2025 President of the Academy. Seamus McKeague. Seamus studied Engineering in QUB and graduated with a BSc (Civil) Engineering in 1979
Following graduation, he worked for 4 years with the road service of the NI Department of the Environment on road work schemes & projects.
In 1983 he joined his family business as General Manager and Managing Director Creagh Concrete Products Ltd (1986- date) headquartered in Toomebridge, NI and with manufacturing facilities in Edinburgh and Nottingham.
Under Seamus’ leadership Creagh have been a pioneer of precast for over 43 years and are one of the largest producers of concrete products throughout the UK and Ireland. Creagh employs 600 people and 200 sub-contractors with an annual turnover in the range £120m stg and employs 100 engineers, ranging from Site engineers, Structural engineers and Contract Engineers.
In 2012, Seamus was one of the founding members of the Timoney Business Leadership School.
In 2015 Seamus joined the International Advisory Board in San Telmo and applies the learning to Creagh.
He is Chairman of IPHA (International Prestressed Hollowcore Association), a Board member of the British Precast Association, a member of MNI (Manufacturing Northern Ireland). and a founding member of the NI Quarry Products Association(QPA) and the Timoney Leadership Institute, Dublin.
In the last decade, Creagh have designed, manufactured and installed numerous residential apartment blocks, office blocks and also prisons, multistorey carparks and educational facilities. Creagh built Manchester Metropolitan University, St Pancreas Campus and Brighton College.
Seamus was elected as a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering (IAE) in 2015, a member of the Council of IAE (2017 – 2022) and President Elect in 2022/23 and is an active member of the Academy fundraising committee and Northern Committee.