Student entrepreneurs seek investment as LaunchBox 2018 journey beginsJune 18, 2018
Ten student entrepreneur teams will commence TCD accelerator programme: Launchbox, Ireland’s first and most successful student accelerator programme...
€1.25m for new peer-to-peer funded residential housing development unveiledJune 13, 2018
Residential development project in Co Kildare aims to deliver more than 65 houses to the market over the next three years...
Configuration management: An overviewJune 12, 2018
First developed in the Cold War, configuration management was conceived to prevent common project afflictions of scope creep, poor documentation, and un...
What steps can your business take to improve the effectiveness of your people and projects?June 12, 2018
In a webinar hosted by Deltek on June 27, you will get an exclusive insight into the working practices of both DBFL and Clifton Scannell Emerson Associa...
Construction projects and soft logic? Time for some hard talkMay 29, 2018
Seán FitzSimons investigates hard and soft logic links in construction projects and makes the case for avoiding the use of soft logic without any consi...
Green light for Sisk to deliver £96m commercial development at Manchester’s Circle SquareMay 29, 2018
Construction firm to complete £240m project, including residential development, by 2021...
Construction industry recovery masking underlying capacity challengesMay 15, 2018
A recent construction industry economic outlook has heard of underlying challenges facing the sector that could impact on its ability to deliver esse...
Claridges Hotel: Construction of the five-storey ‘iceberg’ basementMay 1, 2018
Methods employed in hotel's basement construction not unusual, but the techniques - and working in restricted headroom under a live building - make t...
This park planned to be built in NYC functions as a flood barrierMay 1, 2018
The East Side Coastal Resiliency Project is an initiative that aims to respond to the unique challenges of climate change that the city of New York face...
Minister turns the sod on Cork city’s North West Regeneration ProjectMay 1, 2018
Works include construction of 1km of new roadway, realignment of 1km of existing live carriageway, utility diversions, new storm infrastructure, new fou...
The design and construction of Rathmorrissy Junction: An analysisApril 17, 2018
Design co-ordinator Seán FitzSimons of Clandillon Civil Consulting and Noel Curtis of John Sisk provide their insights into the design and con...
Protecting the house buyer – an overviewApril 17, 2018
With 550,000 households due to be built by 2040, there will be a big need for engineers and others to provide a comprehensive service to house buyers, s...
PMI survey: 75% say skills shortage negatively impacting on projectsApril 17, 2018
The survey by members across the IT, construction and pharma industries outlined that 75% had projects negatively impacted in the past year due to ch...
Why do bridges fail?April 3, 2018
What are the most common causes of bridge failure, and are they as intuitive as we think? Sean Brady takes the Florida International University collaps...
Why contracts, project boards and dispute avoidance matter in major building projectsApril 3, 2018
Greg Power writes that what every successful contract needs is a ‘dispute avoidance task force’ - be it one person, or a few - and it will involve...
The Vaulted House, Dublin, scoops top award at ICS eventApril 3, 2018
The Vaulted House, Dublin, claims top spot at the Irish Concrete Society's 36th annual design and construction awards ceremony, at which there were 350...
Statute of Limitations in property damage claims: The implicationsMarch 20, 2018
The question of when damage was capable of being discovered will now become the new battleground in property damage claims where there is a possible Sta...
New apartment planning regulations step in improving delivery but more action required on costs, says RIAIMarch 20, 2018
The new design standards issued by the government in respect of apartment guidelines have been welcomed by the architects' representative body, but it s...
BRE Global to transfer CE marking business to new Dublin baseMarch 20, 2018
Plans are also under way to create a new test laboratory in the city later this year which will employ 15 to 20 local engineers, scientists and technici...
Top industry players to gather in May for National Construction SummitMarch 20, 2018
The National Construction Summit is Ireland’s largest gathering of participants from the sector and more than 1,000 companies and executives will atte...