Net balance for future workloads fell again in Q3 to –38% Quantity Surveyors in Northern Ireland have a far less optimistic outlook for the next four quarters than their counterparts in the rest of the UK, expecting construction workloads to decline steeply during the 12 months ahead. The net balance for Northern Ireland was –38% compared to +8% ... [read more]
HIRING: Senior quantity surveyor role at Sammon
Are you a talented and ambitious senior quantity surveyor looking to work on exciting building projects? We are looking for an experienced senior quantity surveyor to join our team to support our growth plans across various sectors, including healthcare, education, commercial, residential, industrial, hospitality and government. You will join a ... [read more]
Tobacco Warehouse apartments – heritage restoration at Stanley Dock, Liverpool
Sammon's Heritage Team was pleased to be part of the delivery team for Phase I of this landmark heritage regeneration project at Tobacco Warehouse Apartments in Liverpool; providing pre-contract Quantity Surveying and Cost Advice Services and post-contract Employer's Agent Services. Following its construction in 1901, Tobacco Warehouse in ... [read more]
BioConnect Innovation Centre – Category 2 laboratory space for agri-food sector
Sammon is part of an integrated design team delivering for Monaghan County Council. The agri-food sector in Co. Monaghan and the North East region is getting a significant boost with the development of a state-of-the-art 1,639 square metre research and development facility, at the beating heart of Ireland’s agri-food industry. Sammon is ... [read more]
Royal Haslar Hospital – heritage conservation to waterfront retirement village
Sammon's Heritage Team was pleased to be part of the delivery team for Phase 1A of this landmark heritage conservation project at Royal Haslar on the Gosport Peninsula; providing pre-contract Quantity Surveying and Cost Advice Services and post-contract Employer's Agent Services. One of Britain's landmark buildings Royal Haslar is a unique ... [read more]
NI construction activity massively underperforming UK regions
NI construction professionals less optimistic at start of 2022 Construction workloads in Northern Ireland fell again in the final quarter of 2021. Surveyors here are far less optimistic about the outlook than their counterparts across the UK. Skills shortages and material costs continue to present major challenges to the construction sector in NI. ... [read more]
Sammon helps secure €19 million for two Irish signature tourism projects
Four large-scale tourism projects across Ireland are to receive a total of €73 million, a mix of public and private funding with some €44.3 million contributed by Fáilte Ireland. Sammon is delighted to be have been part of the bid teams which helped secure almost €19 million of project funding for two of the four signature tourism projects ... [read more]
Managing construction costs central to sustaining economic recovery
As we begin the second quarter of 2021, almost one year from the beginning of the first coronavirus lockdown, the construction sector shows that it can be central to economic recovery. Social housing driving construction workloads The latest RICS and Tughans Construction and Infrastructure Monitor shows that workloads in Northern Ireland ... [read more]
Construction in Northern Ireland trended up in Q3 and Q4 of 2020
In Northern Ireland, the outworking of Brexit and the on-going Covid-19 pandemic are the two key factors behind three successive quarters of negative construction balances. Construction workloads trending upward But, if we are to look for a glass-half-full, the final quarter of 2020 was at least trending back in a positive direction. A survey ... [read more]
Construction sector in Northern Ireland will help drive recovery in 2021
Article originally published in The Irish News - 24 November 2020. ANYONE who was in any doubt about the impact of Covid-19 on the construction sector need look no further than the latest construction output figures from NISRA. They highlight the huge fall in Northern Ireland construction activity in the second quarter of this year as a ... [read more]