Students Starting To See Benefits Of A Career In Engineering And Technology, According To Engineers Ireland
Wednesday, August 15, 2012: The attempts by industry and Government to impress upon students the benefits of a career in the engineering, science and technology [...]
India Independence Day celebrations
In familiar looking colours Schoolchildren take part in the Independence Day celebrations in front of the historic Red Fort, where Indian Prime Minister Singh is [...]
76 percent of construction companies have experienced black economy operations in last 3 months
76 percent of construction companies have come across black economy operations in the last 3 months. In a new Construction Industry Federation (CIF) survey on the [...]
Comfort breakthrough: launch of larger-size safety eyewear
A new design of larger-size safety eyewear launched recently, after research revealed that almost a third of health and safety professionals (32%) believe their employees [...]
Gem Construction Ltd and Purcell Construction Ltd join forces to restore St. Mel’s Cathedral, Longford
In a joint venture between GEM Construction Company Ltd and Purcell Construction Ltd we are pleased to have received a Letter of Intent for the [...]
CRH Capital Markets Day 2012 following release of Interim Results – Six months ended 30th June 2012
CRH plc, the international building materials group, is hosting a capital markets day for investors and sector analysts on Friday, 16th November 2012 in London, [...]
New Research on Housing Equity Withdrawal in Ireland
The Central Bank of Ireland today publishes joint research with the Central Statistics Office (Economic Letters Vol. 2012, No. 6) entitled ‘Housing equity withdrawal in Ireland: [...]
Galway Harbour Company Revises Proposed Port Development
GHC has revised and refined its proposed planning submission to An Bord Pleanala, to take into account the current economic climate. The revised development is [...]
HG Construction (IRL) Ltd – Building on a Quality Reputation
HG Construction (IRL) Ltd, a civil engineering building company that is experiencing steady year-on-year growth. Irish Building Speaks with Ronnie Hennessy MD. Ronnie Hennessy says [...]
Titanic Belfast
An iconic story deserves an iconic setting and the dramatic story of the RMS Titanic is fabulously told within Belfast’s new Titanic Signature Building. At [...]
Kingspan goes shopping and comes home with two firms in Europe and Middle East
Kingspan has entered into an agreement with ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe to acquire all the share capital of the ThyssenKrupp Construction Group insulated panels business. Separately, Kingspan [...]
Tipperary to get multi million Euro wind farm
Energy group Element Power will spend up to €70 million on a new wind-powered electricity project.
Keep Gutters Clear with Freefoam’s Hedgehog™ Gutter Brush
Freefoam Plastics, the market leader in environmentally friendly, innovative roofline and rainwater products, has launched the award winning Hedgehog™ Gutter Brush. The product has been [...]
Freefoam launches new Geo-panel® Brochures to promote 2012 Range
Freefoam has launched two new Geo-panel® brochures to help stockist customers promote the new 2012 Geo-panel® ranges of interior decorative panelling: the 1m wide ‘Geo-panel [...]
Freefoam installs New Guarantee Signage at Depot Branch Network
Freefoam Plastics, the market leader in environmentally friendly, innovative roofline and rainwater products, has installed new signage at its depot branch network in Dublin North, [...]
SAINT-GOBAIN WEBER CELEBRATES 40 YEARS OF RENDER PRODUCTION AT BALLYCLARE, NI
The Saint-Gobain Weber render manufacturing plant at Ballyclare in Northern Ireland celebrates forty years of increasing production of styrene acrylic pastes and scratch textured products [...]
Northern Ireland business activity falls at slowest rate in current eight-month period of decline.
Today sees the release of July data from the Ulster Bank Northern Ireland PMI®. The latest report – produced for Ulster Bank by Markit – showed a much slower decline in business activity than in June, largely reflecting a less marked reduction in new order intakes. Despite a rise in the seasonally adjusted Business Activity Index from 43.6 to 47.6 in July, the latest reading was still below the 50.0 value that separates expansion from contraction.
Picking up the Pieces. Incomplete developments and the challenges of boom and bust!
Niav O’Higgins Partner and Head of Construction & Engineering, Arthur Cox Introduction: Construction is one of the sectors most severely hit by the recession, [...]
Spanwall appointed by ALUCOBOND.
Belfast based architectural façade specialist Spanwall, has just been appointed as approved fabricator in Ireland for the global market leading composite brand ALUCOBOND manufactured by [...]
Sentencing Trends for Health and Safety Offences
“For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.” – Cesare Beccaria (On Crimes and Punishments, 1764)
€90million in additional lending to 5,500 micro-enterprises will be made available under a new Government scheme.
Minister publishes Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill - Scheme expected to be operational in early autumn. Over €90million in additional lending to 5,500 micro-enterprises will be [...]
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