The State’s largest construction company, John Sisk and Son, has launched its new facilities management brand having entered into a joint venture with the Designer Group. Sensori Facilities Management was formally launched on Thursday night resulting from Sisk’s acquisition of a 50 per cent holding in Designer Group… Read More
The government needs to do more to tackle a skills and staff deficit in the construction sector, a boss of one of Ireland's largest indigenous specialised engineering firms, Ward & Burke, has warned. Padraig Burke told the Irish Independent that the shortage of staff has also put upward pressure on wages. He said that… Read More
A REVIEW of the cost overruns at the National Children’s Hospital has found quantity surveyors and the contractors were using different techniques to determine quantities. Independent.ie understands the report says there was a "rapid escalation of costs in a late stage of the progress". The report says the original cost… Read More
The co-founder of Glenveagh Properties this week cast doubt on whether the private sector would ever be able to deliver the 35,000 housing units necessary to meet demand in the Irish market, a notion that must have sent shivers through Government. At a press briefing following the company’s first full-year results, Stephe… Read More