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KINGSPAN DONATES €500,000 TO TUD

Kingspan has announced a five-year partnership with Technological University Dublin (TUD) to support the development of the University’s Design and Construct Centre. The Centre aims to enhance the competitiveness of Irish construction, engineering and architectural companies in the global marketplace. The University states that the Centre will offer a collaborative learning experience and capacity building for students from apprenticeship to PhD level, and a testbed for developing innovative and transformative solutions for industry. Work on the development of the facility, including the Kingspan Lab, will begin in Q3 of 2021. Kingspan’s Group Head of Innovation, Mike Stenson, said: “Being able to partner with the University gives Kingspan the unrivalled opportunity to work with TU Dublin students collaboratively during the course of their studies. This learning period is the ideal timeframe for Kingspan and the students to build a shared understanding, knowledge and curiosity in innovation, digitalisation and sustainability for a better future-built environment. The partnership and the Kingspan Lab also enable the opportunity to collaborate in extensive research in each of these areas, offering students exciting, future-focused and comprehensive learning opportunities that will benefit TU Dublin, Kingspan and the wider construction sector”.

DUKE MCCAFFREY NEW APPOINTMENT

Iomair Treacey has joined Duke McCaffrey as Senior Cost Manager to work across industry sectors including housing, nursing care, schools, data centres and hotels. He is a quantity surveyor with over 15 years’ experience in the industry. He holds a BSc in Construction Economics and is registered with the SCSI. Iomair said: “I am extremely pleased to join the team in DMC. Their core principles and management approach, as well as the variety of projects they are involved with, are things that appealed to me massively”. The company states that having spent the majority of his career to date working in a family quantity surveying practice, Iomair has built a wide range of experience in the education, housing, retail, commercial and conservation sectors. Joe McCaffrey, Managing Director of Duke McCaffrey, said: “We are delighted to welcome Iomair to the team. During the interview process he showed great talent and his down-to-earth personality will work well with our clients and our team”.