Business led • Government Supported • Academia Powered
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and knowledge-underpinned…
Connection
Build resilience and capacity amongst SMEs
Collaboration
Collectively address the common challenges
Resilience
Link with construction businesses and prospects locally & internationally
Internationalisation
Connect the ecosystem to benefit all members
About CCI
The construction sector in Ireland is a key contributor to economic growth and employment and currently faces many challenges and opportunities including:
- New methods of construction, including modular construction, off-site manufacturing and pre-fabrication
- Green technologies, renewable energy targets, retrofit and sustainable practices decreasing the impact of climate change
- Supply chain efficiencies addressing industry fragmentation
- Skills improvement reducing the impacts of human resources shortages
- Innovative technologies transforming the sector, such as BIM and the digitisation of construction
- Flattening construction’s discontinuous demand cycles through increased productivity
CCI aims to build capacity among SMEs in the construction sector to ensure they can maintain their competitiveness, internationalise their businesses, and improve their productivity.
What is a cluster?
Clusters are a group of organisations linked by commonalities.
- Long term
- Change in mindset
- Collective power
- Evolving critical mass
Clusters are a new business model consisting of a critical mass of interconnected industries, companies, associated institutions and government bodies in a geographic area. The cluster encourages both cooperation and competition in a particular sector, thus boosting productivity (efficiency & value creation) across the entire supply chain.
About The Team
CCI’s governance structure consists of a cluster manager, an industry chair and a steering committee representing the industry, academia and government. The founding steering committee and chair have been selected from influential construction sector players. As the cluster matures, these governing functions will be nominated by and from within the membership.
CCI Steering Committee
Siohan Monley
BIM Director
TJ O'Connor & Associates
Joseph Mady
Chief Executive Officer
Digital Construction Technologies
Lisa Vaughan
Chief Executive Officer
Tipperary Energy Agency
Ruairí Hayden
Head of Construction Management
Technological University Dublin
Liz Carroll
Network Manager
Construction Industry Federation
Oluwasegun Seriki
Educational and Outreach Research Manager
Olu is the Cluster Manager and the contact point based in TU Dublin, Bolton Street.