He joined the Board of Works after graduating and later worked at his father's business before closing it down and setting up his own independent business at 61
Dawson Street. He entered a partnership with
William Kaye-Parry in 1898 or 1899. The two shared an interest in domestic sanitation. He played a major part in the Dublin International Exhibition of 1907. He was president of the
Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland from 1909 to 1911. He was also vice-president of the Irish Roads Congress which was in April 1910. In early summer 1917, as part of the
First World War, he went to France as senior engineer in charge of a labour battalion to construct roads and railways. ==Personal life==