Infrastructure
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Capital expenditure in Budget 2024
Total capital expenditure in Budget 2024 amounts to €12.8 billion, a 7.6 per cent increase on Mid-Year Expenditure Report 2023…
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National road safety: A Safe Systems approach
Ireland has seen a year-on-year increase in road fatalities over the last number of years, which has become a hot…
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The impact of planning and regulatory delays
Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) Senior Research Officer Muireann Lynch discusses the cost of planning and regulatory delays for…
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Modern methods of construction: Defining an effective Irish operating model
Ireland has the necessary tools to take full advantage of the benefits of modern methods of construction (MMC). Jenna Davis,…
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Recovering the cost of latent defects – contractual claims vs latent defects insurance
How best to protect against latent defects in construction projects has long been a thorny problem. While developers may have…
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Project Ireland 2040: Inflation curbs 2022 construction efforts
The 2022 update on the implementation of the Project 2040 infrastructure programme paints a largely positive picture for the strategy’s…
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Housing Agency Projects and Procurement: Providing more services than ever before
The Housing Agency procurement unit aims to provide technical and professional services and support to local authorities and approved housing…
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Need for improved infrastructure review process
The Major Projects Advisory Group (MPAG) has made a suite of recommendations with the objective of improving the review process…
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Building a more secure future in the face of climate change
In its recently-published Climate Action Plan 2024, the Government outlined in stark terms the implications of the situation Ireland and…
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Build 2024: What to expect
Published in the summer of 2022, the Build 2022 report is said to have played a key role in informing…
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