€1bn of Irish gold in vaults
Some 10,000 Irish people have gold worth an estimated €1 billion stored in Switzerland, according to one of the founders of a new safety deposit [...]
Crane delivers good new for industry
Unemployed builders may well be looking back in envy at their 'Crane City' days, when there was so much building work around Dublin that cranes [...]
3,229 new mortgages issued in Q2
Mortgages to the value of €518 million were issued during the second quarter of this year, new figures show. This was up 56.1 per cent [...]
Minister Deenihan opens 13.5 km Tralee Bypass
Jimmy Deenihan T.D., Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has officially open the N22/N69 Tralee Bypass Road. The N22/N69 Tralee Bypass Road Improvement Scheme [...]
UK house builders face Bricks and finance shortages
When the British housing market finally showed signs of life earlier this year, Stephen Stone's company tried to order concrete building blocks for a new homes project, [...]
Ecocem – Ireland’s first building material manufacturer to attain an Environmental Product Declaration
An EPD is a rigorous and science-based assessment of all the environmental impacts of a product. It is based on an internationally-agreed system for calculating [...]
NTR shows losses before tax of almost €50m
NTR has reported a loss before tax from continuing operations of nearly €50m, actually increasing by €5m on the reported losses before tax last year. [...]
80% of Irish tech companies will hire in next few months
A new survey has found that the majority of Irish technology companies plan to take on new staff in the next three months.However, over half [...]
Irish Life buys Pembroke Road office building for €15.5 million
Irish Life has re-entered the commercial property investment market after eight years, buying a rented office building for €15.5 million opposite the former Jurys Hotel at [...]
Jacobs Receives Site Safety Check Contract from National Roads Authority
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today that it was awarded a contract from National Roads Authority (NRA) to conduct health and safety site inspections [...]
Tesco unveils €2m Galway refurbishment
With nearly 41 years on the clock, Tesco Galway has been given a new lease of life thanks to a €2 million refit investment, transforming [...]
O’Sullivan announces €32m housing funding boost
Minister for Housing and Planning, Jan O’Sullivan, TD, today announced a €32m funding boost that will provide more than 260 new homes for those in [...]
Meet the buyer construction sector event a success
Over 200 people today attended an information and networking session aimed at connecting local suppliers to opportunities in the construction sector under the Devolved Schools [...]
Danish architect Dan Stubbergaard in town for “newnownext” series talk
The Irish Architecture Foundation and Arup today opened booking for the third talk in the successful NEWNOWNEXT free architectural talks series featuring current and next [...]
Council has reservations about plans for D4 office block
Dublin City Council said it has reservations about plans to demolish a large city centre office block – Burlington House – and construct a new [...]
ESB to Represent Ireland in Europe’s most competitive Business Awards Competition
The European Business Awards (www.businessawardseurope.com) has announced that ESB is to represent Ireland as a National Champion in the prestigious 2013/2014 Awards programme. ESB beat [...]
Call For Govt To Introduce An Economic Recovery Bond
Fine Gael Kildare North TD, Bernard Durkan, has suggested that the Government should introduce an economic recovery bond to help provide funding for the local [...]
First Turbine up at Athea wind farm
The installation of 16 turbines at SSE’s Athea Wind Farm is now underway, following the erection of the first turbine at the West Limerick wind [...]
£93 Million of Proposals in pipeline for Belfast Planning Firm
A Belfast planning firm has submitted or secured five planning applications worth more than £90 million in recent weeks. Turley Associates said that planning permission [...]
Euro zone recovery in site
The euro zone economy may learn later today that it has moved out of its longest recession, needing seven quarters to dig up modest growth [...]
The Turning of the Tide? – Cash Flow and Adjudication under the Construction Contracts Bill
Better cash flow in the industry. On 16 July 2013, the Construction Contracts Bill finally passed through Dail Eireann and will soon become law. The [...]














