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Commercial construction activity plummets amid continued contraction in sector

New research from BNP Paribas suggests poor demand is strangling activity

Northern firm seeks to gain from concrete levy by luring Irish firms

Tobermore wrote to clients in Republic to advise them which precast products will not be subject to 5 per cent tax introduced to fund mica redress scheme

Dalata posts record profits for first half of the year

Shares are up almost 30 per cent, valuing the hotel group at just under €920 million

Kingspan weathers economic headwinds to record first-half growth

Cavan-based building materials giant sees share price rise 40 per cent to value it at more than €13 billion in spite of ‘testing environment’

Earnings increase at Kingspan despite ‘testing environment’

Revenue decreased 2 per cent to just over €4 billion

Construction activity shows renewed declines in July – BNP Paribas

Output has decreased in nine of the past ten survey periods

Building lobbyists seek Vat cut to as low as 0% for housing products

Construction Industry Federation is calling for a ‘super reduced’ Vat rate, citing possible improvement to affordability issues

Stephen Donnelly puts ‘contentious’ construction dispute specialist on the National Children's Hospital board

The Minister for Health has appointed a solicitor from Mason Hayes and Curran to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

Planning submitted for £150m business park in Co. Antrim

Proposed redevelopment of the Enkalon Business Park spans 1.7 million square feet

Family row comes to the fore in Cork construction firm’s shareholder dispute

Case between brothers-in-law features allegations of physical assault and verbal threats

Property consultancy Turner & Townsend to hire up to 170 staff in Ireland

The firm, which is owned by CBRE, currently employs 280 people here

A third of construction workers suffering from stress in past 12 months, new study finds

40 per cent of construction workers feel compelled to keep working despite pressures

The Big Interview

‘Disney popped up and said, ‘Look, we’ve got Ratatouille, would you guys look at it?’’ – Colm O’Farrell, Deluxe Group

The entertainment space is on the up, but for the specialist fit-out company chair who works with some of the world’s biggest theme parks, there’s no drama

Investors hope Grafton Group can unlock an £880m M&A war chest

Shareholders in the listed building materials company want to see a renewed strategic vision under new chief executive Eric Born

Kingspan to report record profits for the first half of this year

The company said market and category performances have varied ‘widely’

Concrete levy will stop major infrastructure projects, say developers

One concrete manufacturer described tariff, designed to recoup some of the costs of €3 billion mica redress scheme from the building industry, as a ‘nightmare’ scenario

Post Script: Peas in a podcast, Murdoch’s cuts, all bets are off

The Business Post takes a look at the scenes behind the stories

Joe Cosgrave’s widow alleges refusal to register her as shareholder is ‘perverse and irrational’

Wife of late developer alleges her brothers-in-law are 'opportunistically' using her husband’s death to 'take control' of the Cosgrave Group

Developer seeks €3.4m from Shapoorji Pallonji for breach of contract

Whinsfield Holdings claims Indian contractor left 65-unit social housing scheme in Dublin incomplete and overclaimed payments

Glenveagh to create 200 jobs as it opens new timber frame manufacturing facility in Carlow

Nua Manufacturing, a subsidiary business of the listed homebuilder, will produce more than 2,000 timber and steel frames from the state-of-the-art plant in Carlow town