Time & Materials Podcast

LiveCosts welcomes Laura Taylor back to The LiveCosts Podcast. Laura is the director and founder of Empowered by Cloud. Laura and Ciaran discuss how a construction company can successfully implement new technology into their business.

Matthew Cutler-Welsh is the host of the Home Style Green podcast and education manager for Pro-Clima in New Zealand. Matthew is on a mission to help people create better buildings by building better. Matthew shares his deep experience in all things passive design & building.

Brett Campbell is a serial Entrepreneur, having founded 2 of Australia's fastest growing companies in their respected fields, including the fastest growing fitness franchise at its time, exploding to 35 locations within the first 6 months of operations, and currently the fastest growing digital growth agency, having recently won the accolade of 2018 Best Social Media Agency of the Year award for Australia and NZ within their first 12 months of operations.

Brett is a go to business expert when it comes to fast and effective business growth, having invested over $2M personally in paid advertising & his company now managing millions of dollars a year in advertising spend for his clients in over 30+ industries.

Brett is a published Author, Global Speaker and Television Personality on Australia's #1 Mainstream Business Channel.

Mark Mitchell is the author of Building Materials Channel Marketing and the lead strategist behind Whizard Strategy, helping the building materials industry solve tough sales and marketing problems. Whizard Strategy is changing the way building materials companies market their products and services—it's less about the chequebook and more about the strategy. As a dynamic speaker, business strategist and marketing expert, Mark brings ideas that create change, increase sales and stop spending for the sake of spending.

Laura Taylor is the director and founder of Empowered by Cloud. Laura's aim is to empower small construction and trade businesses (turning over between £500k-£10million a year) to understand their finances in an easy to digest way, with the power of Xero and automation.

After 15 years working as a qualified Quantity Surveyor, Padraig Neylon had grown tired (and grey!) of the administrative inefficiencies in Construction contracts. Padraig built a team that is creating the best, most modern, digital solutions that will '+AddJust' the way the construction industry manages contracts. and your project's finances. Padraig talks to Ciaran about the problem he spotted and how he transitioned from QS to tech founder & CEO.

Cliona Molloy is the Director of Health, Safety & HR for the McKeon Group. The McKeon group is a 3rd generation Irish construction business that has recently reached 70 years in business. McKeon Group is made up of main construction services, M&E as well as an innovative technology sister company, Hereworks. Cliona talks to Ciaran about the changes she faces as head of health & safety for McKeon and how she is dealing with the new site health & safety challenges.

Mark Cronin is an associate Director of Townmore Construction. Mark has impressive experience both in Ireland and internationally in the areas of Tendering, Procurement, Business Development, Marketing, Cleanrooms & Strategy. Mark talks to Ciaran about what strategies he is using to deal with the inevitable changes we face and gives away some great tips on what companies can do to win more tenders.

Rory O'Connor (Rorys Stories) is one of Ireland's most famous and well recognised online comedians. Rory shares his very honest story from how the idea started, how he grew it to 500,000 + followers and what's next. Rory is also the CIFs ambassador for health & safety and shares his experience with mental health in the construction industry.

This week Ciaran is joined by Lisa O'Brien, the director of Brifin Homes. Lisa is an extremely well respected QS and construction operator who is also well known for her time as the QS on Ireland's most famous construction renovation show, Room to Improve.