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”.
In one of the few corporate transactions of the crisis, the Irish company Smoke & Fire Extract has sold its main product line to a listed Swedish company. Is this an outlier or are we set to see more deals close?
Ireland’s cities are burdened by a persistent shortage of space of all kinds, especially residential. Plus, given the country’s need to go carbon-neutral over the coming decades, Ireland can - and should - go tall.
Irish policymakers have been ignoring inconvenient truths for decades. Over the next three weeks, I will be looking at the real data in a range of issues including the national accounts and the labour market. But today, I am starting with housing.
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