With over 20 years’ experience across various sectors of the construction industry and a family legacy in the home building industry, Emma Maye is the creative vision behind the Ardale Group. Prior to setting up Ardale in 2012 with her husband and business partner...
International Women’s Day is an important event globally and for the construction sector. The day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, while voicing a strong call to action for women’s equality. The Construction Industry...
SIG have officially launched the new SIG Trade Card. Customers can now join the club of the largest provider of specialist building products and technical expertise to the construction industry on the island of Ireland. Trade Card benefits includes: Pay as you go...
“I have to tell you - it’s very surprising how positive companies have been when they hear about what we’re trying to do,” says Derek Byrne, founder of Way 2 Work, and its general manager since the start of 2019. Byrne helps young people who have been in the care...
It’s the Olympics you haven’t heard about. And Dubliner Megan Yeates, formerly a logistics manager at Lidl and DHL, is the reigning gold medalist. The WorldSkills competition has been held since 1950, as a world championship of vocational skills. The last, in 2019,...
The job of a slinger signaller is one of the most important jobs on a building site. It requires skill, diligence and concentration, working alongside the lifting teams to provide safe direction and supervision to crane operators. AP, Crane Coordinator and Dowling...
If Wexford County Council’s idea is to build its way out of the coronavirus crisis, it isn’t doing things by halves. From the €120million Trinity Wharf urban regeneration project in Wexford Town to a Rosslare Port which may even turn into a staging ground for offshore...
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...
This October marks the start of the next phase of our industry’s evolution. The recession and its impact have now receded into the past but new challenges have been put in front of construction. Following the launch of Ireland’s €165billion National Development Plan...
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...
