The Construction Safety Partnership Action Plan 2022-2024 aims to reduce the level of fatalities, serious injuries and ill health in the construction sector. There were 10 construction related fatalities in Ireland in 2021 and many more suffered serious life changing injuries as a result of work-related incidents. Over the last 10 years, from 2012 -2021, […]
BAM Ireland has been appointed as the main contractor for the Bausch + Lomb Area 10 Expansion at their Waterford facility. This 6,000m² expansion to the northern and western sides of the Bausch + Lomb facility will provide production facilities, storage areas, offices, link corridors and staff accommodation. Theo Cullinane, CEO BAM Ireland said, ‘We […]
Mercury has completed the first two phases of Interxion’s PAR8, a 19MW data centre in Paris, France. PAR8 is the first of their client’s four data centres on this site, with PAR9, PAR10 & PAR11 forming ‘Interxion Paris Digital Park’, which when fully completed will have a total of 40,000m2 usable IT space. PAR8 offers […]
Property Industry Ireland (PII), the Ibec group that represents the property and construction sector, has said that existing mortgage measures in Ireland are outdated and need to be amended to reflect new economic realities. The call comes as PII publishes its submission to the Central Bank’s review of macroprudential mortgage measures (see attached). Existing mortgage […]
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 […]
