Posted April 23, 2018
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Posted April 19, 2018
Plans unveiled for 100 new homes for Cork northside
Plans will be unveiled today for over 100 new homes which will be built on Cork’s northside as part of one of the largest housing regeneration projects in the country. The presentation of plans for the next three phases of…
Posted April 18, 2018
Dublin crane count drops to 71 in April
There were 71 construction cranes visible over the centre of Dublin on April 1st. This is down seven on the previous month’s total and a drop of nine on the 80 recorded on December 1st, 2017 – the highest total…
Posted April 16, 2018
Construction index shows growth for the month of March
There is good news for Ireland’s housing supply as the construction sector continues to pick up. Construction continued to increase during March despite disruption from the heavy snowfall. The Ulster Bank construction index out today shows activity continued to rise…
Posted April 12, 2018
Urgent need to attract construction workers who left country
The Construction Industry Federation says there is an urgent need for the industry to attract more talent. It comes after a new report by the Central Bank shows that one in every two workers who lost their jobs in Ireland…
Posted April 3, 2018
€117m sewage pipe plan for Cobh
Work on an underwater sewage pipe crossing Cork’s lower harbour will start this year as part of a €117m project to end the daily discharge of thousands of tonnes of raw sewage into the sea. Irish Water also said it…
Posted March 29, 2018
Construction work to begin on the new DIT Grangegorman
Major construction work starts this week on the new Grangegorman campus for Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT). The building of its two main teaching blocks, under a public-private partnership (PPP), was delayed by a failed legal challenge from an under-bidder…
Posted March 28, 2018
Plans for 636 homes for Kildare and Cork suburbs
Plans for 636 residential properties in two developments have been submitted to An Bord Pleanála under the Government’s strategic housing development initiative. One of Ireland’s largest housebuilders, Cairn Homes, is seeking permission to build 320 houses, 142 apartments and and…
Posted March 28, 2018
Number of completed houses up nearly 40pc
Almost 800 new housing units were completed in February this year, representing a 38pc increase from the same month last year, according to the latest Goodbody Housebuilding Tracker. In the opening two months of 2018, housing completions grew by 46pc…
Posted March 27, 2018