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22-11-2016

Heavy Investment Needed in Education Sector

The impressive Balloch school campus development above will need to be one of many if targets for the coming years are to be met. It is expected that the total number of primary and secondary pupils in the UK will increase by 729,000 by 2020. This equates to over 24,000 extra classrooms in 1,744

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14-11-2016

Irish Construction still on the up

The end of the third quarter of 2016 saw a further monthly expansion in Irish construction activity, helped by quickening growth of new business. Rising workloads fed through to increases in purchasing activity and employment, while sentiment around the prospects for future growth remained strongly

08-11-2016

Construction industry leads the way as gender pay gap decreases

Inequality in pay between men and women in construction is now less than the all-industry average at 16.3% While there is still a long way to go to bring pay into line, construction is doing better than real estate, hospitality and transport sectors. A spokesman for O’Neill & Brennan said

31-10-2016

Crossrail work near Moorgate office

Just around the corner from our Moorgate office work is well underway on the Crossrail station at Liverpool Street. This impressive picture of the shaft and ticket hall was posted to LinkedIn by the site manager. O’Neill & Brennan’s involvement with Crossrail is expected to increase

26-10-2016

O'Neill & Brennan - REC Member of the Month

O’Neill & Brennan’s Julian King is featured in the November 2016 edition of Recruiter Magazine. Julian, Director in the Fareham office, was interviewed by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and subsequently included in a feature for their Recruitment Matters section in the

24-10-2016

GoConstruct wins design award with help from O'Neill & Brennan

Go Construct, a careers website created to inspire people to consider joining construction, was co-designed with over 400 employers and stakeholders and launched by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) just over a year ago, scooped the User Experience and Design award at Tuesday

18-10-2016

O'Neill & Brennan named as suppliers for Hinkley Point C

O’Neill & Brennan have been named as suppliers for the Hinkley Point C project. The site has a projected run time of 10 years and is so massive in scale that we expect to utilise our regional offices across the UK and Ireland to source candidates, particularly considering the remote

13-10-2016

Interview with a Consultant - Kelly Harkin

This week’s consultant interview was with Kelly Harkin from the Manchester office: Hi Kelly! You’re currently supplying staff to Torness power station in Scotland, but you’re based in the Manchester office, why’s that? I head up energy and power for O’Neill &

12-10-2016

Market Insight - Site Starts in the 3 months to September

Starts in the three months to September were 9% lower than a year ago and 15% down on the previous three month, dragged lower by falls in non-residential and civil engineering work. In contrast residential starts were 9% up on a year ago and 4% higher than during the preceding three months.

11-10-2016

BAM World Safety Day - Trafalgar School

If you have been following O’Neill & Brennan’s South East Facebook page today (which you almost definitely have) you’ll know that Pete Fahy and Ian Richardson today attended BAM Construction’s safety day at their Trafalgar School site in Hilsea, Portsmouth. It was an

06-10-2016

Wates Building Futures - Upcoming Events

Ixion and Wates Group are working in partnership to deliver their next fully funded two week construction programmes in Tunbridge Wells from Monday 31st October, Birmingham from Monday 14th November, and Trafford from Monday 28th November. The Wates “Building Futures” opportunity is

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