In the executive chair with: Martin Searson

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,...

Historian Ultan Cowley: Looking at past lessons could help entice skilled workers back to Ireland

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...

BIM technician Roqaya Abou Klaib: How technology is changing the way we work

Roqaya Abou Klaib is by her own admission a ‘zealot about technology in construction’. Originally from Kuwait, Abou Klaib recently completed her masters in Applied Building Information Modelling and Management from Technological University Dublin before joining...

Room for expansion: The future of modular construction in Ireland

While modular construction has yet to really take off in Ireland, there’s a Cork man who is making global headlines and history by taking modular building to new heights. When the George Street Towers in Croydon, London are completed they will be the world’s tallest...

Everest explorer and former housebuilder Pat Falvey on turning chaos into clarity

Fresh Perspective - Conversations with inspiring voices from outside the world of construction Climb every mountain he hasn’t, but overcome obstacles, barriers, depression, financial ruin and fight his way back from the debts of despair, well, yes Pat Falvey has done...

Big picture project: The bridge on the River Blackwater

In the growing town of Virginia, Co. Cavan, a unique bridge located in the suburbs of the town was long overdue rehabilitation and conservation works to preserve a well-known piece of local infrastructure. Enlisted to complete the works on the Dunancory Bridge were...

Mercury marks first prime contractor project in Denmark with record pour

An Irish company has marked its first project in Denmark as a prime contractor with a record onshore pour. Mercury reached the significant milestone in creating the foundation for the CPH3 Data Centre in Copenhagen for Interxion: A Digital Realty Company. The project...

Covid storm not over but there is a beacon of hope

It’s particularly apt that the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity’s mission is that “no construction worker or their family should be alone in a crisis” especially as we are collectively still living through one of the most disruptive and deadly crises in living...

Greenways: Ireland’s new recreational motorways

For a country internationally renowned for its 40 shades or green, or more like 400, it makes sense that Ireland should be investing heavily in Greenways, the recreational and environmentally sensitive routes that traverse our coast line and interior. This past...