Construction jobs gap worsened by ‘reluctance to get out of bed for 7am’
Employer seeking to fill 35 roles ‘got about two applications’
Tender process for six higher education buildings due ‘immediately’
Pledge to deliver 11 buildings set to facilitate extra 8,000 student places upon completion
Garda stations in €6m cost overrun
Row has broken out between OPW and developer JJ Rhatigan over cost overruns
Castles and cottages with an edge in the conservation game
The 2019 Irish Georgian Society awards went to humble homes and grand projects alike
Kevin Street Garda station construction costs spark dispute
Office of Public Works at loggerheads with builder JJ Rhatigan over €3m extra charge
Ballymore names Irish construction director as projects advance
Paul Carty worked until recently as a regional director with JJ Rhatigan & Company
Rhatigan gets go-ahead for €90m office after meeting Chief State Solicitor concerns
Revised plan includes extra measures such as opaque glazing
Planned office block scale reduced over Chief State Solicitor’s concerns
Maria Browne had expressed worries over seven-storey building overlooking her offices
New offices could see ‘top-secret papers’ says Chief State Solicitor
Maria Browne says proposed nearby block is too tall and could jeopardise State privacy
Contract for more than 500 social homes to be awarded
Plan to provide housing through public-private partnership announced four years ago
Turnover at top 50 Irish construction firms rises 12% to €6.72bn
John Sisk & Son Ireland’s largest construction company with turnover of €950m
Woodvale Construction wins contract for six unfinished schools
Stalled project after Carillion collapse resulted in liquidation of Sammon Construction Ireland,
Bank working to restart construction on six State schools
Funder exploring options after original builder Sammon went into liquidation
BAM seeks to complete €100m schools contract after Sammon collapse
Sisk and JJ Rhatigan also believed to be bidding for schools contract
Bank hopes to restart stalled €100m school-building project
MUFG says it is exploring solutions to continue construction of six southeast schools
Fears for schools as builder Sammon is liquidated
Department of Education must hire replacement for separate Maynooth contract
Sammon to be liquidated following Carillion ‘perfect storm’
Kildare-based company employs 200 people in Kilcock
Competition to build schools, Italian bonds, and boosting the household budget
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New rivals to build and run schools left unfinished after Carillion collapse
State’s National Development Finance Agency says schools and Institute of Education must be ready for new academic year
The sharing revolution
Long leases and single-occupancy buildings are increasingly passé as new and old companies flock to shared office space on short-term leases
Building Information Modelling brings sea-change to construction industry
The beauty of the technology is that it allows the building to be virtually built, before it’s physically built
Will Ireland’s housing shortage harm FDI?
Rising rents and lack of supply of new homes could hamper inward investment
Dublin to get an extra 3,000 hotel rooms by 2020
Hotel room stock in the capital set to increase by 15% over the next three years
Irish firm fined €10,000 following cartel investigation
Flooring firm got huge State contracts despite bid-rigging probe into sister company
Marketing suite emerges for new Lansdowne Place scheme
Premises on Berkeley Court site comes ahead of 215 apartments due to be built in 2018
Office block in Dublin 8 for €15m has scope to refurbish
Three-storey building on Golden Lane could be extended or replaced with larger building
Galway firm hired as contractor for Dublin 4 residential scheme
Chartered Land appoints JJ Rhatigan for scheme on site of former Berkeley Court
JJ Rhatigan building up again after the downturn
Small Business Future proof Padraic Rhatigan, JJ Rhatigan
Construction due to start on €28m Garda west of Ireland HQ
Divisional headquarters in Galway will have 12,000 square metres of space
Legal dispute over Radisson Blu Hotel on Golden Lane settled
Rhatigan group, Beltany and Goldman Sachs agree to settle and drop all litigation
Anytime Fitness and Insomnia take off at Heuston
New tenancies add to mix – including SuperValu, Subway, AOL and Eircom – at HSQ
Workers on Government-funded building project ‘employees’
Department ruling on status means workers may be entitled to range of PRSI benefits
Prime/Balfour Beatty chosen for first healthcare PPP project
New €140 million scheme to provide 14 primary care centres
Judgment reserved in case over high-profile Dublin hotel
Luxor Investments challenging Goldman Sachs over Radisson Blu Hotel
Great expectations blamed for industrial unrest
CSO figures reveal complex picture of workplace complaints
Developer Padraic Rhatigan refinances €80m debt
Radisson Blu on Golden Lane, offices and units in Athlone, Galway included
Union agrees to remove picket from Dublin apartments
Dispute between developer JJ Rhatigan and Unite trade union continues
Unite agrees not to trespass on Rhatigan building sites
Picket placed in dispute over company’s use of subcontractors instead of direct employees
Pickets to resume at Kishoge Community College building site
Unite says row over alleged under-payments to workers could escalate
Pickets placed on school building site in Dublin
Trade union claims some bricklayers were earning less than €5 per hour
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