The stated objective of the Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) is to activate land for residential development. Adopting the stick rather than the carrot approach, the RZLT in simple terms intends to penalise what it views to be inactivity in respect of in-scope land...
Pictured above is Hubert Fitzpatrick, CIF Director General Designate, Alan Coakley, President MBCA and Joanne Treacy, CIF Head of Southern Region Services Hubert Fitzpatrick, CIF Director General Designate: "It is hugely positive to see that over 16,000 women now work...
'I'm not afraid of heights but I am afraid of dying' Niall McDonagh is not a man who takes unnecessary risks. In fact, he would say himself that he takes as close to zero risk as possible. Not the words you might imagine coming from a man who has forged a living...
Duggan Brothers (Contractors) Ltd officially reached the significant milestone of 500,000 hours with zero lost time accidents on the Forensic Science Ireland Laboratory Project, in Celbridge, Co. Kildare. The new Forensic Science Ireland Laboratory will house the...
Safety Week 2022 Gold Sponsor Bennett (Construction) Ltd is proud to be a gold sponsor of the CIF Construction Safety Week again this year. We use safety week each year to further enhance the promotion and performance of H&S and wellbeing across all our sites and...
Pia Feeney, Director of Government & Infrastructure, Strategy and Transactions for EY Ireland, on forging new ways of thinking At the earliest stage of the pandemic, a doctor friend commented that the only positive thing to come from that dreadful time was the...
Andrew Campbell-Edie, Communications Manager at the Irish Centre for Diversity, reflects on #BuildingEquality and further progress on D&I in construction The Irish workplace has changed and we now have people from all different races, backgrounds, heritages,...
Ahead of this year’s Southern Construct Summit & Exhibition, CIF Cork Branch Chair Ger O’Leary shares insight into project delivery in the southern region and how to navigate the big issues facing the sector now and into the future What can we expect from this...
The sustainability of Irish construction has never been more important given current economic and geo-political pressures that have led to a sharp rise in materials among other stresses on the sector. Though the outlook for the industry as a whole is cautiously...
Last September I wrote a piece that was generally upbeat, describing the potential opportunities for growth and innovation coming on the back of the increased Capital Investment committed to by the Government in the National Development Plan and Housing for All....
