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Co. Kildare’s John Craddock Ltd (JCL) has been honoured at the annual Sustainable Business Impact Awards. The accolade event, now in its second year, showcases best practice in sustainable development and social responsibility undertaken by companies of all sizes...
Project: Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital - Refurbishment to Emergency Department and Radiology Unit Location: Adelaide Road, Dublin 2 Sector: Medical Main Contractor: MJ Clarke & Sons Ltd Quantity Surveyor: Michael Nolan Project Director: John Clarke...
If the only exit from Ireland’s housing crisis is building our way out of it, then Stephen Garvey, Chief Executive of home builder Glenveagh, looks very close to the driving seat. “Yeah, it’s been a very interesting 18 months,” he says. The pandemic, he adds, has...
These past two years have thrown significant challenges to the construction industry, many of which could not have been foreseen or planned for. While price inflation and volatility, wage inflation and labour shortages were all evident prior to the pandemic, these...
Bernard Dwyer began his career in construction as a labourer at the age of 17 in London. But the allure and physicality of scaffolding soon took over and he started scaffold company PHD in 1984 with just £460 in pocket. Following a housing recession he was obliged to...
CIF corporate partner company AG has reinforced its position as a leader in sustainable construction by switching to bio LPG energy resulting in a carbon saving of 70 per cent - equal to a person driving around the world three times. The Fivemiletown headquartered...
The construction boardroom is still the most male of any sector in Ireland. A full 94 per cent of board members in the Irish construction industry are men, according to new data released in July by the Central Statistics Office. This is even while across Irish...
The CIF Top 50 Contractors 2021 has been published as part of the September issue of Construction magazine. The opportunity to catch a glimpse behind the curtain of an industry is a valuable thing. It provides a rare chance to analyse the health and vibrancy of a...
Former President and Member of the European Parliament Pat Cox has been announced as Chair of Ecocem Group. Founded in 2000, the cement company provides low carbon technical, environmental, and architectural solutions for the built environment. Cox is Chair of the...
Murphy Ireland laboratory technician Sophie Becker is also an Olympic athlete, who represented Ireland at the Games in Tokyo this summer. Having worked at Murphy for two years, she is based at Citywest. The athlete, who competed in the mixed relay 4x400 meter events,...
