The CIF has called for the introduction of a temporary VAT rate of 9% for residential construction for a two year period. The request was made in the Federation’s pre Budget submission, which was published yesterday. The CIF have proposed six steps for inclusion in October’s budget, aimed at increasing levels of house building as […]
NewsThe National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) has issues on eTenders/OJEU the Suitability Assessment Questionnaires to shortlist of contractors to be invited to tender for the various works contracts associated with the construction of the new children’s hospital on the St James’s campus in Dublin. To provide bidders with the opportunity to better understand the project and […]
FeaturedThe Construction Industry Federation has announced that law firm Maples and Calder as sponsor of the CIF Annual Conference, which will take place in the Hogan Suite, Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin on Tuesday 1st October. The theme of this year’s conference is “Activity, Jobs and Solutions”. The construction industry is now in recovery phase with […]
NewsThe value of construction projects commenced saw a significant increase in the first half of 2015, rising by €802 million to €2.754 billion when compared to the same period in 2014 according to the Building Information Index. This represents an increase of +41% in the value of actual construction activity for the first six months […]
NewsThe West of Ireland is set to become a key telecommunications and data gateway over the coming months with the construction of a new transatlantic fibre optic cable system which will have the capacity to handle up to one third of the world’s telephone calls. This follows the installation of the Irish portion of the […]
NewsMinister for Housing, Planning and Construction Paudie Coffey T.D.,has welcomed the figures released by the CSO which show a significant increase in employment in the construction sector. Last year the government published the Construction 2020 strategy, one of the key actions in that strategy was the addition of 60,000 jobs in the sector by 2020 […]
NewsCIF Director for Housing Hubert Fitzpatrick says the publication of the Housing Agency’s National Statement of Housing Supply and Demand 2014 and Outlook for 2015 –17 is a timely contribution to the on-going housing debate. “The report clearly outlines the mismatch between new housing supply and housing demand, and confirms that the average new housing […]
NewsGoogle’s Irish boss has said Ire;and is the perfect place to build data centres. He was speaking as the company announced it was building a new data centre in west Dublin, at a cost of €150m. Head of operations with Google Ireland Ronan Harris said: “I think the view that we have of Ireland is that […]
NewsThere were signs of a slowdown in growth rates in the Irish construction sector during July, but activity, new orders and employment all continued to increase sharply during the month and business sentiment picked up. Meanwhile, input prices continued to rise, largely reflecting the weakness of the euro against sterling. The Ulster Bank Construction Purchasing […]
NewsFollowing on from the graduate & apprenticeship supplement in the March/April issue of Construction, we examine how CIF member firm Mercury Engineering nurtures its staff, from first career step through the years that follow. The list of projects Mercury Engineering has worked on include high profile developments like Dublin Airport’s T2, the National Convention Centre, […]
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