Insight
‘We understand how construction technology is reshaping the industry and the future of work.’ This is the powerful digital mission statement you’ll find on ACB Group’s website. The Co. Cavan-based company has been delivering BIM design and construction since 2017...
What’s been the biggest benefit of CIF membership? From the point of view of our BIM department, we have been involved with the CIF Construction 4.0 subcommittee and associated workgroup since their inception. Previously, under the chairmanship of our CEO Eoin...
Equal Measures - An insight into a career in construction from a woman’s point of view Anne Kinsella An engineering manager with Clonmel Enterprises Ltd who has worked in the industry for 19 years My first job was as a graduate resident engineer with Kildare County...
The pandemic is having a deep effect, with many suffering physically and emotionally and often afraid or not knowing how to talk about loneliness and depression. When Kerry-based construction manager Ivan McCarthy shared his thoughts online earlier this year, it...
A progressive company that’s grown organically in recent years, Co. Kerry’s Griffin Brothers Contracting invests in people and processes to ensure it stays at the forefront of industry health and safety regulations. “We like to think we are leaders not followers,”...
Construction Information Services has released its Q1 Construction Activity Report for 2021, looking at pipeline levels and active construction on the island of Ireland. Managing Director Tom Moloney offers insight into the effects of the latest lockdown and what to...
From his office in Dublin Vinnie Quinn, the co-founder of Evercam, a software service company, was able to bring me into some of the biggest construction projects underway in Ireland as we connected on a video call on a Monday morning in May. From the colossal...
In lists of the greatest inventions ever made, concrete is often in contention for the top spot. That’s not surprising when you consider it’s the most used man-made material on Earth. Each year around 2.5 tonnes of it is poured for every person in the world and 70 per...
As CEO of Quality Positive Ltd, Martin Searson supports engineering and construction firms in developing operational processes, digitalisation strategies and management systems. With over 20 years of M&E industry knowledge and a background in BioPharmaceuticals,...
The long relationship between the construction industries of Ireland and Britain is best described as symbiotic. For example, the Irish labourers employed on the Newry Canal (1742) - the first link in Britain’s Inland Navigation System - were technically the first...
