Last year saw Walls Engineering mark 100 years in existence so Building Ireland felt it was about time it caught up with one of the country’s leading structural steel engineering firms. How many businesses last a century? While it remains a difficult one to answer, Co Carlow-based company Walls Engineering continues to stay strong in […]
Under waste legislation Construction and Demolition waste is defined as ‘all waste that arises from construction, renovation and demolition activities’. It includes soil and stone, surplus and damaged products and materials arising at construction works or used temporarily during on-site activities together with dredge spoil. If you are responsible for carrying out a construction and […]
Now into its sixth decade in business, Thornton Roofing is firmly established as one of Ireland and the UK’s premier roofing and cladding contractors. As the Toomebridge, County Antrim headquartered company continues to go from strength to strength, we caught up with general manager Enda McGurk to get an update on the latest developments. When […]
With extensive expertise in both building and insulation, Finlay Ecofit offers one-stop shop solutions across a wide range of areas including external insulation, extensions, windows and doors as well as any other retrofit work a client might require. We caught up with director Kevin Finlay at their Tullamore base to find out more about this […]
KomVision is the name given by Komatsu to its new ‘surround view’ visibility system now being fitted as a standard safety feature on all excavators. KomVision is said by Komatsu to be ‘a visual aid’ that goes beyond safety regulations. It complies with the provisions of ISO5006:2017 – the new visibility testing standard which came into force […]
CET Connect is Ireland’s premier provider of structured cabling and data centre infrastructure services. From its inception in 1999, the company has successfully delivered a wide range of major infrastructure projects across Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe. We connected with their Clonmel, County Tipperary HQ to find out more. Over the past 19 years, […]
Over the past decade-and-a-half, Tyrone Formwork has established itself as one of the premier formwork, reinforcement and concreting contractors operating in Northern Ireland and mainland UK. We travelled to their base in Coalisland and met up with founder / managing director Barry Donnelly to find out more about this highly-professional, dependable and safety-conscious operation. Tyrone […]
We all fancy ourselves as being DIY ‘experts’ especially when it comes to painting and decorating, but let’s be honest, what we try our hand at, is never as good as what the professionals produce. Painting is more than just a trade it is a skill, an art form even. The first impression when someone […]
Summit Scaffolding Ltd is a young, ambitious and innovative scaffolding company which has enjoyed phenomenal growth in its first year in business. It recently won the ‘Start-up Business of the Year’ award at the Wexford Business Awards. While Summit Scaffolding has only been trading since May of last year, its directors Keith and David Dwyer […]
The Ireland Chapter of Project Management Institute (PMI), the largest professional organisation for project managers in Ireland with over 1,300 members, has today released its inaugural Annual Index Survey. The national survey completed by members across industries such as IT, construction, pharmaceuticals, and financial services outlined that almost 75% of Irish project management leaders had projects negatively […]
