Furthermore, you can talk to Glenveagh’s Talent Acquisition team, who will be exhibiting in Croke Park's Hogan Suite from 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday 11th May.
They are currently looking for Project Engineers, Site Managers, Foremen, Quantity Surveyors and much more.
Register today for this FREE event and meet some of the biggest names in the construction industry.
Formed in 2017, Glenveagh Properties PLC’s journey of success has its origins with Bridgedale which was founded in 2003 and focused on constructing residential developments in the Greater Dublin Area. On
13th October 2017, Glenveagh Properties PLC floated on the Irish and London Stock Exchanges and Bridgedale was rebranded as Glenveagh Homes to scale its housing development operations. At the same time, Glenveagh Living was formed to undertake joint ventures and partnerships to deliver housing for the Irish State, social and affordable housing for approved housing bodies and to deliver private rental units for institutional pension funds.
In less than a year, Glenveagh Properties PLC has scaled its operations to match its ambition, with full time employee numbers growing from 85 to 270, all working across the ever-expanding number of sites, as well as offices in Maynooth and Dublin City Centre. Their network of subcontractors now exceeds 1,000. With 15 sites open and 800 homes under construction, they are well on the way to delivering 1,000 units per year by 2020.
Glenveagh are looking to meet with Engineers, Site Managers, Foremen, Health & Safety Officers and Quantity Surveyors, who wish to build their careers within the company. If you want to be part of this success, come meet their team at the Construction Jobs Expo.
At Glenveagh Properties PLC their vision is to build homes and create communities. In addition, they believe in designing homes that make life better for their customers. They are ultimately community and people-focused.
Glenveagh Properties PLC understands that good design makes life easier, more enjoyable and offers longevity in a home, and believe in well planned, well designed and well-built homes.
Glenveagh’s employees receive an excellent benefits package including bonus, healthcare, pension and critical illness cover.
Come meet the team at Construction Jobs Expo to find out more about building your career with Glenveagh.
A full weekend of family fun is planned at Engineers Ireland’s headquarters at 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge on Saturday, 2nd and Sunday, 3rd March. The professional membership body for engineers in Ireland will open its doors to the next generation of engineers and their families to officially kick off Engineers Week 2019.
Taking place from 2 – 8 March 2019, Engineers Week is a campaign held annually to promote engineering as a career and the importance of the profession to Ireland. The week-long campaign encourages primary and post-primary students, their teachers and parents to explore the exciting world of engineering as well as highlighting the diverse opportunities a career in engineering offers.
To encourage and inspire the next generation of engineers, the Engineers Ireland STEPS team has created an action-packed weekend of fun at the organisation’s headquarters where children and adults alike can come and enjoy a series of interesting shows and workshops to discover more about the fascinating world of engineering. Activities will include LEGO Challenge workshops, Silly Billy Science Shows, Family Minecraft workshops with the Gaiety School of Acting and an opportunity to explore Biomedical Engineering with Reptile Zoo.
A detailed listing for both days can be found below:
Saturday, 2 March:
Sunday, 3 March
Along with these workshops and shows, there will have plenty of fun for all the family with screenings of the Dream Big: Engineering Our World movie throughout the weekend.
Please note that booking is essential for these events and a full list of times for each of the free shows can be accessed via Event Brite.
Weekend Family Fun activities are not limited to the capital during Engineers Week, as NUI Galway and IT Sligo host creative, free and fun-filled activity days for families to kick off Engineers Week 2019. For more information on Engineers Week and to find out more about some of the 500+ activities taking place nationwide, visit: www.engineersweek.ie
ESB Networks is now recruiting Electrical / Networks Technician apprentices to work with Ireland’s electricity network. The 2019 ESB Apprenticeship programme will open on Monday 18th February and close March, 25th 2019.
The Apprentice Electrician/Network Technician programme offers you the chance to build your skills and experience in Ireland's leading energy company. You will earn while getting experience on the job, working with a qualified Network Technician, as well as classroom based learning and you will be supported as part of a highly performing team. You will benefit from varied work experience, working both indoors and outdoors, wherever electricity is used. Over four years you will learn a variety of electrical and practical skills and you will obtain an internationally recognised QQI Advanced Level 6 Electrical Trade Certificate and be eligible for essential roles in a world class utility company.
The apprenticeships are open to male and female applicants over the age of 16, and ESB Networks will provide all the support you need to develop your Network Technician skills.
Apply online at www.esbnetworks.ie
If you have any questions, you can email apprentices@esb.ie or call 1890 39 39 39.
For more information on the application process, you can read the leaflet here.
On Friday 1 March, Engineers Ireland in collaboration with its South East Region Branch will present an Applied Artificial Intelligence Ireland Forum & Technical Conference in Kilkenny. This initiative involves exceptional companies and talent in Ireland that currently use advanced Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology as a key aspect of their businesses. This is an all-Ireland event.
For many businesses in today’s technological era, it’s not a question of if but rather when to adopt AI, and that 'when' may be 'yesterday'! The challenge is to ensure the business has the necessary strategy and plan to support AI capabilities, and the right technical infrastructure to accelerate AI implementation. Determine how your business can benefit from AI – and how it can be built into core processes to drive efficiency, by hearing what others are successfully doing. These topics are precisely what differentiates this AI event from others.
This event is designed for executives, business leaders/owners, and strategists. The aim of this immersive day of learning, discussion and connection is to support delegates, particularly engineers, business managers, government decision-makers, chief information officers, brand managers, students and others with an interest in technology, to gain a broader and deeper understanding of where AI is headed, and hear of some areas of Irish business life where it is being actively and successfully applied. Gain an insider’s look at successful AI implementations.
Event speakers include young leaders in new start-ups who are implementing AI in their companies, and AI professionals and data scientists from well-established businesses.
The morning Forum, the first in a series of Engineers Ireland for this year, and the afternoon Technical Conference will focus on current AI applications and commercialisation across several sectors. The morning presentations will highlight how machine learning technology can drive efficiencies, increase profits and create a competitive edge. Some topics include recruitment automation, advanced location intelligence and advanced image recognition applications.
The afternoon’s Technical Conference will focus on what it takes to make AI work for your business: preparing data, talent demands, implementation processes, transitioning from high-performance machine learning environments to smaller run-time implementations and more. Companies involved in the Technical Conference include Tuam-based automotive supplier and partner to automakers world-wide, Valeo; IBM Watson (services and applications); and Shannon-based Emdalo Technologies, a software engineering development company. There will also be a talk by Dr Martin J. Hayes, Head of Electronic & Computer Engineering, UL on how Ireland's 3rd Level educators are meeting the increasing demand for AI Talent and Technological Advances.
Caroline Spillane, Director General of Engineers Ireland said: “AI is reshaping business, society, and life as we know it. We’re delighted to be collaborating with members of our South East Region on this Forum and Technical Conference in Kilkenny which brings together real-world AI practices and perspectives from entrepreneurship, academic research and business transformation. We hope our members and delegates will gain a better understanding of the powerful potential of AI, acquire insight into some of the practical possibilities of applied AI and how it can potentially drive forward their businesses this year and into the future.”
Dr. Glen Collins, Chartered Engineer, Member of Engineers Ireland South East Region and Conference Director noted: “In the past, AI has mostly been a novelty, but the new implementations of machine learning using deep neural networks represent the first commercially-viable and broadly applicable technology to come from over 50 years of AI research. Business owners, government, engineers and researchers can no longer ignore this rapidly advancing technical arena, and this exciting event is the perfect venue to learn what's really going on.
“From our slate of exceptional presenters attendees will learn from forward-thinking AI insiders and obtain clear insights into how to progress transformational change within their own businesses.”
The Forum and Technical Conference will take place at Kilkenny’s Lyrath Estate Convention Centre from 9:30am to 4pm. The event takes place on the eve of Engineers Week, the annual festival of engineering which runs 2 - 8 March.
Engineers Ireland plan to host four Regional Fora in 2019 with different topics aiming to support the business performance of companies and engineering businesses in the regions through the provision of current knowledge and innovative practices at the business and engineering interface. The fora will provide attendees with the opportunity to hear directly from influential game-changing leaders in business and engineering.
For more information and to book your place at this Forum and Technical Conference, please click here.
Time: 16 January 2019 6pm - 8:30pm
Location: On-campus, UCD Belfield, UCD Sutherland School of Law
On Wednesday, 16th January 2019, UCD Engineering will welcome 5th and 6th year students, A-Level students, mature applicants, parents and teachers to an evening on Engineering at UCD.
The open evening will take place in the UCD Sutherland School of Law in UCD, where prospective students will have an opportunity to speak with lecturers, students and recent graduates and find out about studying Engineering courses at UCD and the many career paths for UCD Engineers.
Admission is free but pre-booking is essential. Use the booking form below to book your place.
In the meantime, you may find information on the courses at www.myucd.ie.
Enquiries: Laura Egan-O’Brien, laura.egan-obrien@ucd.ie.
Do you want to win a trip to the Netherlands to visit HZ University of Applied Sciences and the world-famous Storm Surge Barrier on the Eastern-Scheldt? All you need to do is take part in this civil engineering project with your physics class by building your own coastal defence. Who knows it may be you going on this trip in early 2019!
Coastal defence? What’s that you may ask yourself? Well, the largest part of the Netherlands lies below sea level, so they need to defend local coasts by embankments. That’s how theybecame so good at building them and now they transport civil engineering knowledge around the world. As sea levels are rising and hurricanes are becoming more powerful, lots of countries are now threatened by floodings. We’ve seen the devastating pictures in the news. Ireland will not be spared, so you’d better be prepared.
1. Design a coastal defence together with 10 of your classmates and your physics teacher (more groups per class may send in their contest)
2. Create this embankment by using a container of water. Pump or empty out one side of the container so half of it falls dry. You can use a larger mortar tub, an inflatable swimming pool, a ditch, a pond. Use your imagination!
3. Make a video (no more than 5 minutes) in which you show how you created your embankment. Explain how it works and how it stops the water.
4. Upload the video to YouTube before 15 January 2019.
5. Fill in the form on this webpage.
6. Sit back and relax.
Based on your entries from all the secondary schools in Ireland, the HZ Civil Engineering lecturers will choose the winners. Originality, technical details, enthusiasm are the aspects they will look for.
You are offered this challenge by HZ University of Applied Sciences, a university located in the South-West of the Netherlands nearby the Storm Surge Barrier. Some 4,800 (international) students are studying at HZ, which makes us a small university with a personal approach. They offer seven Bachelor programmes and one Master in English. For the past six years, they have been in the top three of Dutch multidisciplinary universities of applied sciences so these study programmes are of excellent quality.
Are you interested in contributing to the construction of the largest lock project in the world? In determining how high and how strong embankments should be to ensure flooding does not take place? Or would you like to make sure that people and animals can continue to live safely near coasts and rivers despite climate change? If your answer is ‘yes’ to the questions above, the Civil Engineering programme at HZ may be the right choice for you!
The programme focuses on practice-based education and research opportunities. Their close cooperation with the (international) business world, various research centres, and the global network of partner universities is very important. During your classes you work on real-life problems so that you provide practical experiences and skills. After graduation a world of opportunities will open up to you, also because the Dutchies are world famous because for their delta technology knowledge! Want to know more about HZ and the Civil Engineering Programme? Visit www.hz.nl/en for more information and the Open Days.
The 2019 Generation Apprenticeship competition challenges apprentices to construct a three-dimensional letter A using craft and other materials. The competition aims to highlight the importance and value of apprenticeships as a route to skills development in 21st century Ireland.
Now in its second year, the Generation Apprenticeship competition celebrates the best teamwork, leadership, creativity and problem-solving skills of Ireland’s apprentices.
The competition challenges teams of apprentices around the country to design and produce a 6-foot, 3-dimensional A letter (based on the Generation Apprenticeship brand) using the materials/equipment/tools of their industry.
The entries will be assessed by an independent team of judges. The finalists will be showcased at a high profile exhibition and the winning entries announced as part of a glittering awards ceremony.
Teams of apprentices are now invited to use their skills to reproduce large-scale 3D versions of the Generation Apprenticeship “A” Brand
The competition is open to ALL current apprentices, both on/off the job
It is FREE to enter
They have developed some guidelines to help you build your ‘A’ – have a look at the brief below
The key success criteria for entries is building something which demonstrates teamwork, creativity and problem-solving
The cost of materials and development will be covered by supporting providers and/or employers.
All you need to do now is to come up with an idea, register your interest to enter by: 17:00hrs Friday 16 November 2018 by completing the short competition entry form below and email to GAcompetition@solas.ie.
You will have until the 15 March 2019 to complete your build.
Find out more at www.apprenticeship.ie.
Did you attend the Construction Industry Federation's conference earlier this month? Here's what you might have missed...
The CIF Annual Conference took place on October 2nd in Croke Park with nearly 600 delegates and exhibitors in attendance. These were addressed by the Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy and Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Robert Watt. Both policy-makers spoke about the importance of construction to the entire economy and wider Irish society. They are presently involved in the newly established Construction Sector Group after a two-year campaign started at the 2016 CIF National Conference.
The aim of the CSG is to alter how the industry and Government and its agencies work together to deliver sustainable growth in construction and a stable and productive industry over the next 25 years.
The focus of the CIF Conference was on “How construction will shape Irish careers, communities and competitiveness over the next 25 years.” The CIF’s Annual Conference discussed how the industry work culture is changing and will change for the better with technology, greater equality, increasing collaboration, and growth in domestic Construction R&D and Innovation.
Speaking of the great presentations CIF Communications Director Shane Dempsey said: “The conference heard from some excellent domestic and international leaders in construction. Our International Keynote Henrik Lund-Nielsen talked about the disruptive potential for 3D printing in the construction industry as his company has just printed Europe’s first regulation compliant building. Sandi Rhys Jones OBE spoke about the importance of gender equality in the construction industry for its future and its productivity. She challenged the construction industry in Ireland to improve gender equality and commended the CIF and its members on the steps it had taken in this regard.”
The CIF’s outgoing President Dominic Doheny welcomed the Government’s commitment to the industry and announced that the Federation will launch a major national advertising campaign to promote careers in construction to young people in 2019. He also announced a joint initiative with all Institutes of Technology to increase the level of Research and Development; and Innovation in the construction industry. Finally, he announced that the CIF was developing with the IMI a growth strategy for the construction industry in the coming year.
You can watch the speakers’ presentations on the CIF’s YouTube Channel here.
You can view the CIF Conference Presentations Page here.
Today, we speak with Paula Voiseux, Recruitment Manager of Glenveagh Properties PLC. They established in October 2017 and are current working on 12 active residential sites in the Greater Dublin area. They're recruiting for quantity surveyors, engineers, site foremen, site managers and health & safety personnel.
Paula explains more in the podcast.
If you'd like to find out more about Glenveagh Properties PLC, you can meet them face-to-face at Construction Jobs Expo this coming Saturday or visit their website: https://glenveagh.ie/
