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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...
January 2021 brought with it an immediate closure of almost 60 per cent of the construction sector as the country and world battled the new variants of COVID-19. While this was understandable, we would expect the scientists advising government would make their...
As we restart out site activity, it is now more essential than ever to invest in your staff to retain essential skills and talent. Over the past number of months a significant number of our members have embarked upon significant investment in training and up-skilling...
The CIF has been a passionate advocate for the reopening of the entire construction industry. Any uncertainty threatens the industry, its employees and the ability to deliver on the Government’s housing and infrastructure commitments. Irish COVID-19 testing company...
As the construction industry returns to site many things will have changed. How many workers are available to return to site, how many are allowed on site and how we work are all things we need to take think about. We can’t do much about the first two but managing how...
When taking over the Presidency of the CIF from Pat Lucey in late 2020, he wished me well and expressed hope that 2021 would be a more ‘normal’ year. I agreed and acknowledged Pat’s excellent work in stewarding the industry and the CIF through such a tumultuous year....
