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Price rises have been frightening The biggest challenge we face is materials, availability and, of course, the cost. There have been dramatic and frightening price rises. It’s every month and we didn’t see that coming. We’ve never experienced anything like this. It’s...
Tom Maye, 17, is a Galway student and was the second place finalist in the CIF’s 2021 Design Challenge: A Home for Everyone It’s probably fair to say most teenagers aren’t thinking about embedded opportunity. But the concept was central to Tom Maye’s design for the...
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...
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...
Managing Director of MP Joyce Contracting Ltd Michael Joyce began his career in construction as a site engineer in the early 80s with Moy Contractors - a leading main contracting company in both Galway and Limerick. He later joined Henry Connolly Builder Ltd as a...
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,...
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...
While software such as BIM and integrated product development might seem a steep learning curve for some in the construction industry, to a great extent most companies from the big contractors right down to the SMEs are already building in the digital space -...
