The Construction Industry Federation (CIF) invite you to join them on Wednesday, 9th March to celebrate International Women’s Day and discuss Breaking Bias in the Workplace. Speakers & panellists on the day include Phil Kane (Eaton), Sinead Savage (Mannings Group), Lorraine Brady (BAM), Joanne Cluxton (Mercury Engineering), CIF President Frank Kelly, MBCA President Tara Flynn, […]
In keeping with government's plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Ireland will seek to retrofit one-third of the country's housing stock by 2030. A move that will require a big increase in construction workers. Ireland estimated last year that binding climate targets for key sectors of the economy to cut emissions by 51% over the […]
The 10th annual STEPS Engineering Your Future programme is taking place from March – May 2022 and once again, engineering employers are set to join forces with third-level institutions across Ireland to provide Transition Year students with the opportunity to gain insight into the diversity and creativity of contemporary engineering. STEPS Engineering Your Future is run […]
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has released figures for New Dwelling Completions in the fourth quarter of 2021. The figures help to provide annual figures for 2021. Commenting on the release, Justin Anderson, Statistician, said: “A late surge in New Dwelling Completions in quarter four of 2021 brought the annual figure very close to that seen […]
The Institute of Technology Sligo (IT Sligo) has established the Female Student Network initiative which aims to promote construction-related programmes to females. The initiative comes at a time whenthere are significant shortages of graduates from construction-related programmes, according to the Construction Industry Federation (CIF), and only 1 in 10 employees are female. The CIF has […]
The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has published Commencement Notices data for December 2021. Overall in 2021, Commencement Notices for 30,724 new homes were received, a 42% increase on 2020 (21,686 homes). The 2021 total is almost the same as the combined totals for 2016 and 2017 (30,816). With the exception of 2020, […]
Irish Water, in partnership with Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council, continues to progress works on the new state-of-the-art reservoir construction in Saggart. This strategically important project will help safeguard the water supply to homes and businesses in the Greater Dublin Area (GDA) by increasing the security and resilience of the drinking water […]
€21.5 million has been earmarked for 27 landmark regeneration projects in rural communities across the country. The funding, under the Rural Regeneration Development Fund (RRDF), is being invested in projects that will rejuvenate town centres, drive economic growth and footfall, combat dereliction, develop pedestrian zones and outdoor spaces and boost tourism in Rural Ireland. A […]
The final phase of The Five Cities Demand Management Research Report has been published by The Department of Transport. The Report was conducted by Systra LTD, a consulting and engineering firm, on behalf of the Department. The Five Cities Demand Management Research Report helps us "to better understand what drives transport demand and how we […]
GMIT has opened the its newly built Innovation Hub (iHub) and Medical Imaging Suite at the Galway (Dublin Road) campus. GMIT’s iHub has doubled in size to 2,400 m2, accommodating hi-tech incubation space for eleven dedicated MedTech R&D units; seven incubation units for start-ups in the Software, Digital Tech, Connected Health sectors; a co-working space; […]
