Time & Materials Podcast

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.

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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.

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"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.

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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:

• How collaboration, open standards, and data sharing could boost productivity in the construction industry
• Why off-site construction hasn't been adopted at scale, and how it could be
• What the construction industry can learn from other industries

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.

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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/

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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:

• How do we attract more talent into Irish construction?
• How do we solve the industry's reluctance to embrace tech?
• What the next 18 months look like...

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.

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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