Members share personal experiences from on and off site to raise awareness of real-life issues affecting people working in the industry I want to share my experience of attending the Project Supervisor in Construction Stage training course at the CIF and emphasis the...
Commercial partnership Padraig Reilly, the founder and CEO of Boxcore, spent almost 20 years in the construction industry as a civil engineer and project manager. He worked on construction projects in Australia, Ireland, and the UK in leadership roles for both General...
Pictured above are Dermot Carey, CIF Director of Safety & Training; Seamus Hoyne, Dean of Flexible and Work Based Learning, TUS; Sinéad Hughes, IGBC Programme Manager and Pádraig Boland, FET Strategic Manager with LOETB The construction industry must embrace...
Dr Katriona O’Sullivan is Lecturer of Digital Skills in the Assisting Living & Learning (ALL) Institute, Department of Psychology, National University of Ireland (NUI) Maynooth. She tells AIDAN PRIESTLEY how, growing up poor, the system failed her. Now, her work...
President of the Water Services Operators Group Patrick Buckley on delivering value to the water services sector and embracing innovation to get work done The future of Irish water provision is in a period of change. Indeed Irish Water is no more and is now Uisce...
Leading home heating solutions company Grant has been announced as a finalist in the sustainability category of The Irish Times Innovation Awards 2021. Operating at the forefront of the heating industry for over 40 years, with their cutting edge sustainable and...
In the context of the annual CIF Top 50, we talk about turnover. While topline figures can be very encouraging, reflecting the value of work that’s underway, this does not represent the health of the sector. Alan Miltz is an Australian economist who said ‘turnover is...
Nobody gets into business expecting sleepless nights and the many hassles that come with running a small company. Somewhere the aim of being in business for yourself and your family gets lost and your time gets eaten up working in the business as an employee. Then all...
Construction runs in the McShane family blood so when it came to choosing a career path, pursuing a trade was the natural choice for Gerard McShane. The 24-year-old works as an apprentice joiner with specialist construction business Pure Fitout. With offices in...
New scaffolding training due to get underway this autumn will help meet the evolving needs of the industry. CIF and the National Association of Scaffolding and Access Contractors (NASAC) in collaboration with Laois and Offaly Education Training Board and the National...
