Conor Greham, Business Development Executive, CIF Learning and Development, outlines three new training programmes available from conservation and heritage to management and lifting operations Annually, the CIF learning and development department endeavours to...
The 2021 CIF Top 50 Contractors list will be published by Construction magazine in advance of the annual CIF conference on September 30. This official CIF listing is based on contractors' overall turnover figure and prominent CIF contractors can qualify for inclusion...
The past 18 months have been nothing like we ever expected. While the construction industry is now experiencing a major rebound and ramping up of activity, it is impossible to say what the new normal will look like. Changes to the sector will have to be made with many...
Sarah-Jane Pisciotti is Head of Design, Ireland & Europe at Sisk Group. She considers what our future homes might look like post-pandemic and how her career path led to construction How has the pandemic changed our homes? The pandemic has shifted hearts and minds...
Ireland has committed to a net-zero energy system by 2050. Reliably powering more than 30% of Ireland’s total primary energy needs, 40% of heating and 50% of all electricity generation, the national gas network is vital to achieving this. Ireland’s €2.7bn, 14,617km...
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...
A progressive company that’s grown organically in recent years, Co. Kerry’s Griffin Brothers Contracting invests in people and processes to ensure it stays at the forefront of industry health and safety regulations. “We like to think we are leaders not followers,”...
Last year the CIF Galway office established the CIF Western & Midland Regional Infrastructural Forum. The purpose was to identify infrastructural projects that, if constructed, would significantly enhance the region’s ability to create more balanced regional...
Kirby Group Engineering has reached a new milestone in its journey in people management processes. The Irish firm has been awarded platinum accreditation from the Investors in People programme, scoring among the top two per cent of organisations assessed to date. Now...
A community college in Co. Kerry has scooped the overall award for the Construction Industry Federation’s Design a Home for Everyone competition. Castleisland Community College in Castleisland has been selected over the other finalists at the first CIF’s Design a Home...
