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s Managing Director of Eco Modular Buildings, Malachy Menton has close to 40 years of experience in the construction industry. The Company is Ireland’s fastest growing portable accommodation company, offering a complete range of quality portable accommodation products and solutions, on rent, rent to buy, and purchase options. The Company offers a personalised service with flexible terms to best suit customers’ budgets and they have ambitious plans to grow the company throughout Ireland.
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“Investing in the right youth in our field and giving them the opportunity to keep abreast of changes in technology also enables us to remain at the forefront of technological advancements, while setting trends.”
The development bubble
Stewart Construction has stood the test of time, remaining dominant throughout recessions and downturns in the industry and avoiding ‘quickbuck’ style developments, sticking to work as a general contractor as opposed to chasing the development bubble that had emerged in Ireland. Stewart elaborates: “We were lucky enough not to have been affected by the downturn, predominantly due to the conservative and innovative actions of our management team, which has been a driver in our success.” Slightly less conservative however has been the Company’s desire to keep up-to-date with technological advancements. It was one of the first
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Investing in the right youth in our field and giving them the opportunity to keep abreast of changes in technology also enables us to remain at the forefront of technological advancements, while setting trends
companies in Ireland to embrace building information modelling systems (BIM), investing heavily in the people, hardware and software to successfully follow that trend. This mindset put Stewart Construction in the same bracket as some of its international counterparts, which its direct competitors in Ireland would not necessarily have been in. “An additional strength for us was a continually strong balance sheet which enabled us to invest in the right people for the job,” adds Stewart. “In their time, a lot of companies have had to let people go while we were able to invest in both people and equipment, simultaneously creating a strategy for integrated product delivery.” Having the funding behind the Company to continue employing during the recession made the competition for projects easier to tackle, with people predominantly being more willing to pay for fullyfunctioning and multi-facetted teams