Terry Gorry is an employment law expert and well known for his online content. Terry has over 27,000 subscribers on YouTube across 2000+ videos and a host of followers who actively read his blogs.  You can take a look at Terry Gorry’s YouTube channel here. You can read his best stuff for free by clicking on the links below: Employment law in Ireland Terry Gorry & Co. Solicitors Making a will Small business and entrepreneurship Family law TerryGorryWrites.com   ...

Robin Hayhurst is a construction business mentor and coach. Robin is also host of the Bust & Beyond Podcast. In this episode Robin shares his experience in recruitment, culture, and general business skills he has acquired through his own experience and working with many construction companies through his business coaching services. Connect with Robin Hayhurst Website Bust And Beyond Podcast LinkedIn Instagram FaceBook

Welcome to a special End Of Year episode of the Time & Materials Podcast, where we look back at the best advice from our guests in 2023, and see where they predict the construction industry will go in 2024. WITH THANKS TO GUESTS: Sarah Crawley & John Ryan | Symterra Lucas Carstens | Modulize Gaynor Tennant | Offsite Alliance & Modularize Jonny Cooper | Steering Point Conor Walsh | Encon Sinead Lew & Kevin Brady | PwC & APNA Colm McHugh | Construct Innovate Paddy...

Paddy Carroll is the Managing Director of Carroll Estimating. In this episode Paddy shares his story of the gap he spotted in the market with the lack of qualified quantity surveyors coming through the system.  Paddy now provides tending, estimating, and procurement right up to final accounts to all sizes of construction contractors. Listen in as Ciaran and Paddy dig into some of the pressing issues & risks facing today’s contractors. Connect with Paddy Carroll Website ...

In this episode, Ciaran sits down with Colm McHugh, Centre Manager for Construct Innovate. Colm is an experienced senior manager and chartered engineer with broad experience across the construction industry, both in Ireland and abroad. Connect With Construct Innovate Website LinkedIn Twitter YouTube

In this episode Ciaran sits down with Sinead Lew (PwC) and Kevin Brady (APNA) to dig into the sixth SCSI/PwC Construction Market Monitor Report.  You can download the report here. The report reflects the responses of construction and land surveying professionals in a range of areas, from building and quantity to project management and planning and development. It identifies activity trends related to general construction activity and projects in addition to trends within surveying firms. ...

Conor Walsh is the Managing Director of Encon, an award winning retrofit company based in the South East or Ireland. He  has a passion for innovation and for all things energy efficient in construction. Conor is a qualified carpenter by trade, with a BSc in Quantity Surveying and more than a decade and a half of industry experience as a Fabric First specialist. Conor shares his advice on how he has used PR to be positioned as a thought leader in the retrofit space as well as picking up...

Jonny won an impressive seven All Irelands with two All Stars. In this episode Jonny draws parallels between his experience of being a key member of a high performing sports team and the learnings that can be taken into today's business worlds. With 14 years experience of leadership and skills development, Jonny is uniquely placed to speak and to educate leaders across diverse fields and industries on how to build high-performing habits, teams, and companies. Jonny has taken his skills to...

Harrison Gardner, RTÉ Star and Co-Founder of Common Knowledge, talks about his mission to enable people everywhere to understand the basics of construction. In this month's episode of the Time & Materials Podcast, Harrison shares the story of his circuitous route to Ireland – from Australia, through India, to Ennistymon in County Clare. Harrison, through his company Common Knowledge, are working to education regular people in the fundamentals of construction. Through his television...

"In construction, we drop a load of raw materials onto a site, with hand-drawn drawings, and ask a team that have never met each other to assemble that into a product that resembles the drawings." As the Co-Founder and Chair of The Offsite Alliance, and non-executive director of Modularize, Gavnor Tennant understands the huge upsides of modular construction better than almost anyone in the industry. In this episode Gaynor shares her experience working with over 180 offsite construction...

As the Founder and CEO of Modulize, Lucas Carstens knows more than most about the potential of modern methods of construction. In this episode of The Time & Materials Podcast, Lucas explains: How collaboration, open standards, and data sharing could boost productivity in the construction industry Why off-site construction hasn’t been adopted at scale, and how it could be What the construction industry can learn from other industries Modulize.io is a web-based software designed...

Construction has been slow to adopt technology when compared to other industries. But those who have been on site will always remember someone saying “there must be an easier way to do that.” But where would you start if you did have an idea to improve construction? How does someone who only knows #construction build #technology ? What money, time is involved? Is it worth the risk ? To answer this and more, the Time & Materials Podcast recently took to London to sit down with the...

Be prepared for 2023 with deep insights from 7 leading construction industry experts. In this end of year roundup, Time & Materials looks back at some of the best advice from 2022 that forecasts what construction companies need to know in 2023.

As the Director of Main Contracting with the Construction Industry Federation, Paul Sheridan has some great insights into the Irish construction industry's biggest challenges. In this episode, Paul shares the benefits of CIF and what he thinks the future holds for the construction industry in Ireland, including: How do we attract more talent into Irish construction? How do we solve the industry's reluctance to embrace tech? What the next 18 months look like... The CIF is the Irish...

This week the Time & Materials Podcast is joined by Gerry McCaughey, CEO of Offsite Tek and a visionary in the construction industry for modern methods of construction.  Gerry's father, Brian McCaughey, founded the first Irish modular construction company, and Gerry shares the story of that company through to the modern day. We discuss a lot of the reasons why modular construction isn't the mainstream - yet - and where the challenges and blockers to modern methods of construction lie. 

Adam Chapman, A.K.A the Heat Geek, is a well respected thought leader and influencer in the heating industry across the UK. Adam started in the trades but spotted a gap in the market in the lack of online education and heating resources available to plumbing and heating professionals. In this episode Adam & Ciaran discuss how plumbers adapted to his online educational content along with some tips into how we can all save on our energy bills. Adam explains how to save on energy...

Alan Wilson is the Managing Director of Select, the trade association for electrical contractors Scotland. Alan shares his deep construction experience working directly with many electrical contractors along with his experience with pushing regulation at government level. Alan & Ciaran discuss the current state of business for electrical contractors along with short to medium term opportunities that can be grasped from the industry’s push to net zero. Visit www.select.org.uk

Keith Kelleher is an Accredited Mediator with ADR / Friary Law / CIArb, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor. In this episode of the Time & Materials Podcast Keith and Ciaran drill down into the impacts of COVID on the construction industry including: what contract lessons can construction companies learn post-COVID; and the advantages and disadvantages of a cost-plus contract as a solution to cost inflation. And the famous Clause 36...

Excluding COVID, in July 2022 we saw the sharpest decline in construction activity in Ireland for 10 years. In this episode of the Time & Materials Podcast we dig in to find out what's going on in the construction industry. In this episode Ciaran is joined by Director & Head of Research of BNP Paribas Ireland John McCartney.  Ciaran & John drill into the Purchasing Managers Index report for July 2022. The report monitors activity within the construction sector.

Sinead Lew is a Corporate Tax Director at PWC. Sinead, with her colleagues in PwC and The Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI), were involved in the creation of the recently published Construction Market Monitor Report 2023. The report tracks responses from various construction and land surveying professionals such as chartered building, quantity, project management, and planning & development surveyors. The report covers several activity trends related to general...

Michael Kirk is an executive, director & founder of many successful businesses. Michael has transitioned through construction and now specialises in optimising process management, digital transformation and change management. He is passionate about businesses, the people who work in these businesses, and customers who he can help on a daily basis.

Michael Kirk is an executive, director & founder of many successful businesses. Michael has transitioned through construction and now specialises in optimising process management, digital transformation and change management. He is passionate about businesses, the people who work in these businesses, and customers who he can help on a daily basis.

Aileen Gallagher specialises in working with Construction-related Businesses - Roofing, Construction, Commercial Landscaping, Heating & Plumbing, Electrical, Suspended Ceilings, Safety Netting etc. Any construction-related business selling high value services.

With thirty plus years in the KBB industry, including physically installing kitchens and bathrooms for over twenty of them, Mark has the skill set and the expansive knowledge to offer in-depth points of view and conclusion surrounding everything connected to kitchens and bathrooms.