BMG 'committed' to hospital builds The private health firm planning three new co-located hospitals across the state has insisted it remains fully committed to the project.

Major £24m road build gets underway A major £24m roads scheme was been officially launched in Northern Ireland this week by the Roads Minister Conor Murphy.

Irish solar company in €30m NZ deal An Irish solar energy company has signed a $30 million distribution agreement in New Zealand.

Investment sector of property market improving A new report shows that the investment sector of the Irish property market is “clearly showing signs of improvement”.

	Life ends at sixty		The beginning of the end?		Saving the construction trade
	Éanna Nolan, head of BRE Ireland, asks should the life span of a building really end at the industry-standard sixty years?		Economic research consultant Geoff Tucker asks is it the ‘beginning of the end’ in the downturn in the UK property market?		Derry Scully from Bruce Shaw Partnership talks exclusively about the Construction Industry Council’s plan to save the construction industry

£100m eco-plan for former NI quarry

A derelict quarry is to be transformed into an environmentally friendly harbour eco-village under a £100 million development plan approved last week. Northern Irish Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has given the green light to the ambitious planning application for the 153-acre site of a former cement works on the shore of Larne Lough, 22 miles north of Belfast.

€250m Cork hospital The Beacon Medical Group has been granted permission to construct a third private hospital in Ireland – resulting in the creation of over 1,800 construction jobs.

£40m retail plan The developers behind a major €40m commercial and retail development in Limerick halted this week by a single objection to An Bord Pleanala believe the project remains “live and viable”.

Zaha Hadid's Cairo Stone Towers		Curtain Call
Zaha Hadid Architects have unveiled plans for an office and retail development called The Stone Towers in Cairo, Egypt. The scheme will provide office and retail facilities to a rapidly expanding Cairo.		The £1m centrepiece in the restoration of a historic park in Lancashire has been completed, incorporating innovative use of the new MX curtain walling system from architectural aluminium glazing specialists, Technal.