| Festive duty | Flooding where we build | On the outside looking in | |||
| With transactions low and the market in flux, now is the best time to make changes to property taxation. Geoff Tucker looks at the options for Budget 2010 | With a doubling of flood risk by 2050, we need new policy for development on floodplains sooner rather than later, writes Éanna Nolan | The OECD's take on how to pull Ireland back to economic growth makes for interesting reading. But is the government listening, asks Derry Scully |
| Game on |
| The green light has been given for the €30 million development of Parnells’ GAA club in Coolock, Dublin. It is estimated that 200 people will be employed during construction of the state of the art development which will include two all weather pitches. The development will also include a medical centre and pharmacy and a small development of 17 houses and 53 apartments in a deal between the Marist Fathers and Parnells’. |
| Massive South Korean sustainable plan unveiled | Obel Tower, Belfast | |||
| Foster + Partners, together with PHA and Mobility in Chain, has won an international competition to build a 300 square-kilometre sustainable masterplan in South Korea. The plan sees the expansion of the Incheon Free Economic Zone, an extensive mixed-use scheme encompassing the islands of KangHwa and OnJin-gun, to the north west of Seoul | The use of a crane-independent formwork solution helps the Karl Group to meet its tight construction schedule at Belfast’s tallest building. The construction team at the 28-floor Obel Tower at Donegall Quay in Belfast have to progress the build at the rate of one 600 m² floor fully cast per week of build time. |
















