• ‘HOUSES ARE TOO BIG FOR MODERN LIVING’

    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 LODGES PLANNING APPLICATION FOR NEW HEALTH SCIENCES BUILDING

    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…

  • TU DUBLIN LAUNCHES BSC (HONS) IN BIM

    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…

  • EPA ISSUES FIRST LICENCE FOR REUSE OF CONSTRUCTION WASTE

    The Environmental Protection Agency has issued its first licence to process large volumes of Irish construction and demolition waste. Issued to Panda waste management company, the licence will facilitate its reuse as a product in road construction. Almost zero construction and demolition waste is recycled in Ireland. In 2008, the EU set a target for…

  • COST OF HOUSEBUILDING MUST COME DOWN

    COST OF HOUSEBUILDING – James Benson, Director of the Irish Homebuilder Association (IHBA), has stated that the association welcomes the ESRI’s acknowledgement that the cost of housebuilding must come down to enable increased supply. “Since 2013, we have highlighted the fact that nearly 45% of the cost of housebuilding isn’t related to construction but ‘soft…