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The National Development Plan is hugely important to our industry and yet we are still awaiting the publication of the NDP linked to Ireland 2040, a vital piece of the jigsaw as we plan for the future of the Irish construction industry for the next two decades and...
Philip Crampton is the newly-elected President of the European Construction Industry Federation and will take up his role in May 2022. Following the publication of the CIF’s new Guide to Supporting Green Construction, he considers the benefits of a smarter, greener...
Anthony Brady, Industrial Relations and Employment Services Executive with the CIF, looks at what employers should start to consider in relation to workers returning to an office setting After 15 long months of the Covid-19 pandemic, both employers and workers can...
Covid forced change in the workplace but the power behind it was driven by IT. Re-evaluating how to engage digitally can led to commercial opportunities, writes Azon Recruitment Group’s Principal Technology Consultant Gary Caffrey A long-established construction...
Construction Information Services has released its Q1 Construction Activity Report for 2021, looking at pipeline levels and active construction on the island of Ireland. Managing Director Tom Moloney offers insight into the effects of the latest lockdown and what to...
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...
The long relationship between the construction industries of Ireland and Britain is best described as symbiotic. For example, the Irish labourers employed on the Newry Canal (1742) - the first link in Britain’s Inland Navigation System - were technically the first...
The year 2040 seems a long way off but it’s not. By then, we will have to have built new homes and provided jobs for an additional one million people across Ireland. The way we build now has to change. We need to build smarter and with a lower carbon footprint. As...
Technology is rapidly being integrated within the entire construction supply chain. Changes are often driven by those serving the FDI market through high purity contracts, pharmaceutical, data centres and medical devices, with client operations being mimicked into...
Anthony Brady, CIF Industrial Relations and Employment Services Executive, reports on new guidance to prevent and resolve bullying at work Behaviour can be deemed as bullying or harassment, but not both. A new Code of Practice (COP) on workplace bullying, by the...
