Focus on construction: Industry innovates to tackle labour shortages and price rises for materials

Most building firms expect to be as busy or busier next year. Stock photo

Fearghal O’Connor

Ireland’s commercial property market may have been in the doldrums in recent times, but that has had only a limited impact on the wider ­construction sector.

In the past a downturn in the office market might easily have been enough to tip the construction sector into a meltdown.