Time & Materials Podcast

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 Email: terry@terrygorry.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 Carroll | Carroll Estimating

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 Instagram LinkedIn

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. Together, the findings provide valuable insights into current and expected levels of construction activity and output for the next 12 months. Connect with Sinead Lew LinkedIn Website Connect with Kevin Brady LinkedIn Website #construction #modular #housingcrisis #housing #procurement #rfq

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 awards for his innovation along the way. Learn More about Encon Visit www.encon.ie Connect with Conor Walsh on LinkedIn Instagram YouTube Facebook #construction #modular #greenenergy #ecohomes #retrofit #greenhomes #procurement #rfq

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 his new position of Director of Leadership and Talent Development at Steering Point, an award winning executive search and advisory firm. Reach out to Jonny Cooper on Social Media LinkedIn Instagram Twitter #AllIreland #Gaa #Leadership #Construction #podcast #newepisodealert

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 show on RTÉ, and through their educational course, Common Knowledge empower people to make informed decisions about building or expanding their own homes. Learn more about the project on the OurCommonKnowledge website. See more from the Time & Materials Podcast here.

"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 companies, digging into her experience in dealing with government and challenges they face in striving to promote the use of offsite construction. See more from the Time & Materials Podcast here: https://livecosts.com/resources/time-and-materials-podcast/ Learn more about the Offsite Alliance here: https://www.offsitealliance.org/

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: Modulize.io is a web-based software designed specifically for modular construction companies that helps them make better project bids, procure materials, and estimate their costs – and lots more. Learn more about Modulize on their website. Follow Modulize on LinkedIn.

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 great Sarah Crawley and John Ryan to discuss this and more. Learn more about Symterra here: https://www.symterra.co.uk/ Connect with Sarah Crawley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-crawley-52a26411b/ Connect with John Ryan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrprojects/ #construction #technology #fintech #startup #startups #constructiontechnology

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: The CIF is the Irish construction industry’s representative body. It provides a broad range of services that assist members in navigating the political, business, economic and regulatory environment. These services cross the full business spectrum and include Recruitment and Training, Legal and Industrial Relations Consultation and Advice, Health & Safety, Marketing and Industrial intelligence Reports Engagement with Government, Statutory and other industry bodies, and regular updates on all issues affecting the construction industry. Connect with CIF here.

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 bills on BBC News Check out Adam's Heat Geek Course Follow Adam on Twitter

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 and why now, more than ever, contractors need to know and understand why Clause 36 should not be struck out of their contracts. Learn more about Kelliher & Associates at their website.

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 construction activity and projects, as well as those trends experienced within surveying firms which provides a useful and valuable insight regarding the current and expected delivery of construction activity and output for the next 12 months. The report is informed by professionals working in the public and private sector, both from large and smaller firms across Ireland. But how will this affect general building contractors? To shine some light on that very question, Sinead & Ciaran dig into some of the key questions that general building contractors will need to know and understand through the next 12 months.