Actavo Building Solutions, Ireland’s leading supplier of modular buildings, has secured a contract to provide high-end modular buildings to Irish Rail at its site in Fairview, Dublin. The project commenced in January and is scheduled to finish in July 2020. Actavo Building Solutions will design, supply test and commission the two-storey unit that is 833…

Sisk engineering the future – John Sisk & Son (Sisk), Ireland’s largest construction company celebrated Engineers Week with a structured programme at their head office on the Naas Road. Sisk invited 22 transition year students from twelve local secondary schools into their business for two days. Some of the highlights for the pupils included, travelling…

MotoCut is safer and up to five times faster. A new-generation hydraulically-driven cutter for concrete piles that is safer and up to five times faster than traditional methods has been launched, and is now available in Ireland through hire specialists Groundforce. The MotoCut Q-350S pile cutter, which features twin diamond 500mm-diameter circular cutting blades, can…

Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) and Irish building contractor, Walls Construction have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to further develop the relationship between both organisations. The new corporate partnership reflects the institute’s on-going commitment to industry engagement for the purposes of research, innovation, graduate employment and education. The agreement with the Dublin headquartered company…

The Irish Planning Institute (IPI) has announced the winners of the 2020 Planning Awards. Limerick City and County Council’s ‘Living Georgian City Strategy’ project was declared winner of the overall award for excellence in planning in Ireland at the Institute’s biennial awards gala dinner. The project also received an award in the ‘Management and Delivery’…