Cork-based Airflow Services offers a range of installations from domestic heating to high-tech ventilation. Its founders have just sold it to New York-listed Johnson Controls.
You might think shutting down sites for much of 2020 would have impacted general contractors’ financials. Thanks to its flexible business model, Walls barely missed a step.
One of Dublin’s top building providers is challenging a move by a former managing director to sell 10% of the business to a rival, claiming he disclosed confidential company information. New court documents reveal what HPC alleges occurred.
Modular buildings were hailed as the solution to Ireland’s housing crisis. But the sector has seen significant setbacks, due in large part to added strain on the private housing market and a shortage in construction supplies caused by the pandemic.
Businesses are adapting to new air quality expectations from workers and customers concerned about breathing in viruses and other germs. This new demand creates opportunities for those selling ventilation and purification technologies.
Accounts for the Mater Private show just how much the company is paying in intercompany interest. BAM, meanwhile, has taken aim at the “inaccurate and misleading information” about the new children’s hospital.
When he started his low-carbon cement manufacturing company 20 years ago, Donal O’Riain freely admits that the timing was wrong. Now high-profile investors are injecting millions into Ecocem’s promise to fix one of the world’s worst-polluting industries.
The escalating row between the hospital development board and its main builder is threatening to spill over into a mammoth legal battle.
Uncertainty over planning permission is a fact of life in our system, and it causes problems. In Europe, they do it differently.
Three Irish top executives at a major New York construction firm are facing multiple charges brought by federal prosecutors. Their defence lawyer counters that they are being hounded by trade unions baying for “the last ounce of their blood”.
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