The Kirby Way – Interview with Kirby Group Managing Director Fergus Frawley
Ensuring customer satisfaction is part of the ‘Kirby Way’ and it is helping the company win repeat business and find new business in new [...]
Purcell Construction – Pursuing Excellence
Award-winning projects are earning building contractor Purcell Construction an unrivalled reputation for excellence. Cian Molloy reports. Founded in Galway in 1988, Purcell Construction has [...]
Theo Cullinane, CEO of BAM Ireland – Smarter working at BAM Group
The key to being competitive is to be innovative, says Theo Cullinane, CEO of BAM Ireland, which last year had a turnover of €360m, with [...]
Collen Construction – Building on a Legacy
Positioned as one of the Top 5 in the Bruce Shaw handbook of Irish Building Contractors and with a turnover approaching €200 million, Collen Construction [...]
Ardmac CEO Ronan Quinn – Celebrating our best year to date
Having enjoyed its best year ever, Ardmac finished 2014 with overall revenues of €82m, a year-on-year increase of 36%, and CEO Ronan Quinn believes that [...]
BIM adds to Quality Assurance at Winthrop
Mechanical and electrical contractor Winthrop is finding that building information modelling (BIM) is helping it to better serve its clients while also delivering cost and [...]
Eugene O’Shea, Walls Construction, MD – A new beginning for one of Ireland’s oldest building firms
One of Ireland’s oldest and largest building firms made the headlines recently as news of its management buy-out filtered through the industry. Walls Construction was [...]
JJ Rhatigan & Company – Building on a Reputation of Excellence
As one of the country’s leading General Contractors, JJ Rhatigan & Company has been building projects across all sectors including Commercial, Residential, Hotel & Leisure, [...]
Paul Bruton, Bennett Construction, Joint MD – ‘Building on Strengths’
When the downturn hit Bennett Construction Ltd staff numbers were reduced by almost 75%, but the company is now recruiting as business starts to grow [...]
P.J. Hegarty & Sons – Building Partnerships since 1925
Family-owned and managed for four generations and celebrating its 90th year in business this year, PJ Hegarty & Sons MD John Hegarty says that longevity [...]
Roadbridge Managing Director Conor Gilligan – Diversity is key for Roadbridge
Expanding into new markets and new sectors has helped Roadbridge hold on to its inclusion in the Top 10 of Ireland’s Main Contractors, says company [...]
Bruce Shaw’s Derry Scully – An Industry in Recovery
Following the release of the 2015 Bruce Shaw Handbook, Chairman Derry Scully talks about an industry in tentative recovery, the shortages in residential construction and [...]
BAM Ireland Delivers in the West
For more than 20 years, Ireland’s largest public work’s contractor BAM has had a dedicated West of Ireland regional office located in Galway and as [...]
JJ Rhatigan & Company – Setting standards in the West for over 60 years.
It is easy to understand how JJ Rhatigan & Company has established itself as a leading construction company across Ireland, and particularly in the [...]
Invest In The West
Galway and the surrounding regions are currently buzzing with start-ups, micro enterprises and international companies who’ve recognised the area as a great place to [...]
Irish construction & marine markets to benefit from Kommerling products as Laydex becomes national distributor
Kommerling UK has signed an agreement with Laydex for the Belfast based company to distribute its extensive range of marine products including the highly [...]
Invest in the West – MJ Conroy & HP Ballybrit
The IT giant Hewlett Packard has chosen again and again to expand its presence in Galway, with 700 workers about to move into a [...]
A star performance by Monami Construction
The engineering and organisational skills of building firm Monami Construction literally went to waste in Cork in 2014, but the client Greenstar, was delighted [...]
Library success speaks volumes for Truwood
The library project was one of the Monaghan Company’s biggest projects to date, with Truwood supplying 56 large reading desks, 457 bookcases and 2,285 [...]
Saint-Gobain, Ireland opens the doors of their new Technical Academy in Dublin
Building materials firm Saint Gobain has opened a new training centre in Grange Castle, Co Dublin, which together with its sister centre in Cavan, [...]
Kilsaran – Connecting the city at the Rosie Hackett Bridge
Dublin’s newest bridge, the Rosie Hackett bridge which spans the River Liffey is benefitting from the technical and aesthetic qualities of Kilsaran International. The 21st [...]














