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Industry Insights

Our Industry Insights highlight real-world, inspiring MMC success stories and innovative case studies shaping the future of Irish construction. These insights seek to demonstrate how the MMC sector are addressing the following industry challenges. 

  • Workforce shortages 
  • Limited awareness of MMC training provision
  • Honing off-site and modular skills 
  • Addressing digital and technology gap 
  • Need for multi-skilled labour force
  • Preparing future industry leaders

  • “If It Can Be Built Offsite, It Should” – Engaging Engineers with Offsite Manufacturing and Lean Principles for MEP Installations

    Early engagement between designers and contractors is fundamental to delivering Lean offsite manufacturing. Ardmac, a specialist contractor delivering complex data centre and advanced manufacturing facilities, focuses on maximising a project’s pre-manufactured value (PMV %) – and has taken to upskilling partners in Lean offsite manufacturing too.
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    Off-Site & Modular Skills
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  • Prefabricated Drainage Systems: Precision Manufactured Offsite by Skilled MEP Professionals

    Managing water drainage is a key engineering factor for construction projects of all scales and in all sectors. Prefabricated plumbing offers the flexibility to ‘plug and play’ custom-manufactured rainwater drainage to individual developments, reducing time spent building and installing systems onsite. Capcon Engineering is a specialist Irish firm with an offsite manufacturing facility leading the way in this area.
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    MMC Workforce
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Addressing Industry Challenges