Insight
Ahead of retiring this summer as Director General of the Construction Industry Federation, Tom Parlon reflects on 16 years at the helm As the CIF's Director General for the last 16 years, Tom Parlon has been a passionate advocate for the organisation, its members and...
How can the industry drive deeper digital adoption? The Build Digital project is really central to driving digital adoption. I’m quite confident that we will see a new dimension to Build Digital that will really take a focus on clientside needs. To make an effort in...
An electrician by trade, Joseph Mady returned to college in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and construction slowdown. He undertook a course in Electrical Engineering Design and Energy Management. He first learned of Building Information Modelling (BIM)...
The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the focus on local communities, and resulted in the Our Rural Future plan, which further commits to regional urban regeneration to facilitate remote working and develop local communities. As a result, local authorities across the...
President of the Water Services Operators Group Patrick Buckley on delivering value to the water services sector and embracing innovation to get work done The future of Irish water provision is in a period of change. Indeed Irish Water is no more and is now Uisce...
Project Manager Kealan Bolton describes the delivery process for the Salmon Weir pedestrian bridge being constructed by Jons Civil Engineering in Galway city The new Salmon Weir pedestrian bridge structure, expected to be fully completed in June, will tie into the...
CIF Director of Main Contracting Paul Sheridan talks green procurement, project scope and why we need to zoom out and look at the entire life cycle of our built assets Amid all the doom and gloom around climate change it is easy to forget the progress that has been...
Some might say print media is a thing of the past and that for a lot of companies it is no longer seen as a viable option for trying to reach out to their target markets. I’d suggest the fact that you are reading this article disproves that sentiment. Nine times out...
You only have to look at a map of the road networks in Ireland to see clearly that the motorway network leaves the regions underserved. The same is true of our rail network. From a perspective of the National Planning Framework, it has a focus on balanced regional...
Economic yields: The regions have much to offer and with a strong appetite to build more Every region in Ireland has its strengths. Tourism along the Wild Atlantic Way, medtech clusters in Galway and the Midlands, pharma and bio-pharma clusters in Sligo, Cork,...
