Progressive Engineering Company EDC has appointed Sara Steele as Executive Director of its Cork Office. Sara has over 25 years of experience in the industry and has worked on a range of large-scale projects with previous roles at John Sisk and Sons, Dornan’s Engineering, BAM Contractors, GE Healthcare and DePuy Synthes. She brings to the […]
Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) has today published the latest figures from the BPFI Mortgage Drawdowns Report for Q4 2021 and the BPFI Mortgage Approvals Report for December 2021.The following are the key figures from the Mortgage Drawdowns Report for Q4 2021. A total of 13,299 new mortgages to the value of €3,312 million were drawn down by borrowers during […]
Mercury completed 10.5 million hours worked recordable injury free in 2021. This achievement is a testament to the dedication of all their employees and supply-chain partners who are living Mercury’s anchor value of safety. Their safety efforts are global, with their teams carrying out works on 40+ projects across 12+ countries last year. 2021 saw […]
Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) has today published the latest figures from the BPFI Mortgage Approvals Report for November 2021. The following are the key figures: A total of 4,959 mortgages were approved in November 2021 – some 2,662 were for FTBs (53.7%) of total volume) while mover purchasers accounted for 1,172 (23.6%). The number of mortgages […]
Stars of Chadwicks Group’s new Christmas jingle, comedian Joe McGucken and Chadwicks Group Category Director Pat Moore alongside Marketing and Development Director Tara Brennan at Chadwicks Group, presented a cheque of €10,000 to Joanne Ryan, Corporate & Trusts Manager at Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA). Following the success of the ‘A Builder’s Holiday’ jingle, Ireland’s leading […]
BAM Wills JV has begun installation of Duradrain as part of the new €241 million N5 upgrade project, in County Mayo, Ireland. The product, a sustainable and recyclable combined kerb and drainage system, manufactured bygreen construction innovators Dura Products, will line a significant stretch of the new 20.3km dual carriageway between Turlough and Westport. It forms part […]
Independently ranked in the top ten contractors operating in the Irish construction market, JJ Rhatigan & Company has recorded substantial growth over the past five years, delivering no fewer than 3,500 homes nationwide, for both the public sector and the private sector. Over the same period, the Galway-headquartered company has also delivered more than 12,000 […]
Integrated Facilities Solutions (IFS), the Dublin-based leading provider of digital asset management solutions for infrastructure and real estate, has announced it is to expand its operations into the US, UK, and Scandinavia with the recruitment of 100 new staff over the next three years. To support its growth and expansion, the company is also launching its new […]
Senior cycle students and schools have just over two months (8 weeks) to enter the CIF Build the Future – Schools Challenge,’ which can be entered via www.cif.ie/cifchallenge. The deadline for entries is January 31st 2022. The Construction Industry Federation (CIF) in association with Sherry FitzGerald has opened this competition (in its second year), which is aimed at Transition […]
It is no surprise that climate change is the most important global issue that will continue to exist as an existential threat to our way of life. To limit temperature rise to 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels, we must reduce the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) we emit into the atmosphere. Ireland has committed to […]
