CONSTRUCTION SAFETY “The increase in construction fatalities is a grave reminder to companies to keep focussed on safety every day, commented Tom Parlon, CIF Director General, responding to recent Health and Safety Authority statistics. He added: “The CIF is reiterating its call to construction companies to continue to build on the significant investment in safety…

The Dundalk Driver Test Centre (DDTC) has been officially opened by the Road Safety Authority (RSA). Atkins was appointed by the Office of Public Works on behalf of the RSA to provide civil and structural design services for a driver test centre in Dundalk Co. Louth. This new multipurpose complex will cater for a variety…

A UCC economist has said Cork needs to build 5,000 apartments per year to combat housing shortages. According to an article on echolive.ie, Dr Frank Crowley of the Spatial and Regional Economic Research Centre at UCC’s Cork University Business School believes Ireland needs to re-think the way it builds houses more generally. “Apartments and high-density…

IT Carlow has lodged a planning application for a new health sciences building on the Kilkenny Road. The application site is located on a site measuring 0.435ha on the campus, bounded by the Kilkenny Road to the West, partly on the footprint of the VEC school building for which planning permission for demolition has already…

Technological University Dublin has announced the commencement of its Level 8 BSc (Hons) in BIM (Digital Construction), designed and delivered by the same team who created TU Dublin’s award-winning MSc in aBIMM suite (ICE Awards Third Level Course of the Year 2019). This programme is designed to meet the Lean Construction, BIM and digital transformation…